Now, as far as I can see, there is nothing in Oklahoma law that requires a sheriff - or anyone else, for that matter - to disarm themselves prior to entering the premises of the state capitol. Nonetheless, this as-of-yet unidentified senator, who swore an oath to uphold the Constitutions of the United States and the State of Oklahoma, expressed his/her personal discomfort with the idea of an elected and duly sworn sheriff carrying their duty firearm on said premises and ordered them to either disarm or vacate the premises.
The intermediaries or anyone else who knows the identity of the senator who anonymously sent the message to disarm have the duty to reveal the identity of that senator.
I can tell you this much: they should not have left. They had a legal right to be there and they were carrying in accordance with OK laws. They are also ELECTED OFFICIALS. They should have gone office to office until they found the guilty senator and placed him/her under arrest for interfering with a law enforcement officer in the exercise of their duties. Like it or not, lobbying is part of the job of a sheriff; there is nothing in any law of any state of which I am aware that says that they must be unarmed while doing so. By leaving they gave this gun grabber exactly what he/she wanted; it was a victory for the antis who would even like to see all but an elite, ideologically sound group of law enforcement officers (evidently the OK State Troopers fit this description) unarmed.
We don't have keystone cops here in the US like they do in Britain. We have LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS who are charged with keeping the peace and given the means to do so.
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