Cuomo tells gun-loving sheriffs to STFU or GTFO

[The Magistrate]

32. Again, Sir: Scratch A Gun Fetishist, Find A Criminal

The whole 'law-abiding gun owner' line is in the same class as 'jumbo shrimp': the demands of their fantasy life as heroic slayers of 'thugs' and resistors to 'tyranny' require them to adopt an attitude of 'bending the rules' and 'defying authorities' in the pinch when the gun is in hand. So their actual attitude to the law is not 'I will obey the law' but rather 'I will decide which laws I will obey', and yet still their own conviction they are righteous and law-abiding people allows them to feel they are not criminally inclined when they harbor the intent to break laws at will, and even that they are not criminals when they actually break laws.

The attitude of a locale's populace towards a law does not mean a fig to the duty of a law enforcement official regarding his sworn duty to uphold and enforce the law. Nor, for that matter, does his own attitude towards a particular law. If these people are announcing they will not enforce a state law, a law it is their sworn duty to uphold, they are not fit to hold their office, and if some mechanism for removing them exists, it should be exercised to remove them, as they clearly are not willing to abide by the laws of the state.