Wheeler will enforce laws, U.S. Constitution

The letter to the editor (Feb. 5, Daily Bee) attacking Sheriff Daryl Wheeler for his response to questions about his stance on supporting the U.S. Constitution as Bonner County’s chief law enforcement officer should not go unnoticed.

Sheriff Wheeler has sworn to uphold all laws within the framework of that Constitution, unlike our president and his administration who picks and chooses which laws they will enforce and which laws they absolutely refuse to enforce.

One such law they refuse to enforce is the immigration law concerning illegal entry into our country as only one of many examples. If the author of the letter trembled in fear at Sheriff Wheeler’s announcement, he stands in a small group since most citizens felt great comfort in his words.

To many in this nation the Constitution and the Bill of Rights are written in stone, never to be chipped away at in any form or fashion.

To those that may fear the laws in Idaho you might consider studying Chicago, Washington, D.C., or possibly even New York City, where strict gun laws are already in effect.

Every time they enacted a new gun law that didn’t work, they came up with even more strict ones. Now the problem the anti-gun laws created gave them massive crime rates and they don’t have a clue why they rose to such extreme levels. Logic and common sense are the answers to their problems.

BILL O’NEIL

Priest River