Obama set the example of what federal laws to enforce, ignore

I find it interesting and hypocritical that the liberal anti-gun letter to the editor writers are objecting to the many sheriffs and local law enforcement officials stating their position on gun laws if they feel they infringe on the Second Amendment.

They are simply following the example of our president, Barack Hussein Obama, as he selects which duly passed federal laws he chooses to enforce.

Obama has shown that if he doesn’t like a duly passed federal law, he will instruct his henchman, Attorney General Holder, not to enforce the law (selective enforcement).

Immigration and the Defense of Marriage Act are two good examples, and for political reasons, he does not mind telling the press of his decisions not to enforce these laws.

Our local law enforcement professionals are simply following this splendid example that President Obama has established.

In addition, Attorney General Holder has made it abundantly clear that federal laws are the federal government’s responsibility to enforce. He has even gone as far as suing the state of Arizona to keep them from enforcing current federal immigration laws and has threatened other states of the same.

If we take this premise to be correct, then it would be up to the federal government to enforce any federal gun laws passed by the federal government, not the local sheriff. Obama and Holder set the ground rules, not our local sheriffs.

Chuck McNeil

Corvallis