Sheriffs Deputy Tripp Kester Davidson County. NC - Const Rights - Extras 720

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Thank you, ma'am. My name is Trip Kastur. As you can see, I'm here. I just want to personally. Could you pull that mic up a bit better? Okay. I just want to personally and publicly go on record supporting this resolution before this evening. You know guys, it's simple like a lot of them have said the Constitution needs no explanation. It's been enforced for several hundred years now. It's easy to understand. It says what it means and means what it says. And the last time I read the Declaration of Independence, it specifically reminds all of us that we're endowed by our creator with certain inalienable rights, which means God given, among these life liberty and pursuit of happiness and that governments were instituted among men specifically to secure our God given rights. And it says when government becomes destructive to these lands, meaning when they go above and beyond trying to secure our liberties and trying to take them, it's the right of the people to alter or abolish that government, either by voting or ultimately God forbid to use our second amendment rights to protect ourselves from tyranny. And I'm just asking all the y'all to unanimously join our sister counties of Wilkes, Surrey, Stokes, Lincoln and Cherokee and get on board with this thing and publicly demonstrate to us that you're willing to uphold and honor the same oath I took when I put my hand on God's word and held my other hand up to him and swore that I'd give my life to defend that Constitution. And I hate, I'm not trying to be disrespectful, but regardless of what y'all do or don't do, I'm not going to enforce an unconstitutional law. I'm going to be good. I'm going to protect the people of this county regardless of what's done here. So I'm just praying, I've been praying about this thing all week that God would touch all his heart and say, hey, let's get on board, let's do the right thing, let's let these people know that we're here to support them and we're not going to allocate any personnel, finances, resources or facilities to infringe on their liberties. Thank you. I teach eighth grade social studies for Davidson County Schools. We just went through the Bill of Rights and if my kids can understand it, I would expect that this board can understand it. I'm concerned tonight in the region I'm here that we've already lost some of our second amendment rights. I have the privilege of pastoring a church that has a Christian school. We cannot protect our kids in our school because our second amendment rights have already been taken away from us. When our parents put students in our school, they say what assurances do we have that you will protect our students? And we have to say to them the only way we can protect your students is illegally because the law in the state of North Carolina says that yes, we may have a gun on our property, but it has to be out in the parking lot, in a car, in a lock box, behind a lock car. So when an individual comes into our school to do harm to our faculty and our students, according to our legislature, we have to say wait just a minute. Give us an opportunity to go out through the lock doors of our building, unlock the car, unlock the lock box, get a gun, come back in here and then we'll have a shootout at OK Corral. It makes no sense at all. And all across this country and especially our neighbors up north in Virginia, they are relatively trying to take away our first amendment rights and our second amendment rights and especially our second amendment rights. And it's amazing that the state of Virginia produced the first, the third and the fourth presidents of the United States. Washington said, our first president said that a free people ought to be armed. Jefferson said, and what country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not worn from time to time that this people preserve the spirit of resistance, let them take arms. Madison said the advantage of being armed is an advantage which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation. In the several kingdoms of Europe, the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms. Now contrast that to Stalin. Stalin said if the opposition disarms well and good, if it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves. The liberal, socialist, leftist Democrats in Virginia have taken the word of Stalin over Washington and Jefferson and Madison. We're saying to you tonight, let's come down on the side of American freedom and reality and let's send a message that's already been stated to Raleigh, to Washington, to the swamp, and the alligators. We're going to stand up for our first amendment rights. I'm not up for re-election until 2022. That's no time soon. I'm not doing this for that. I'm doing that because I have a disabled son at home who's 15. I have a little daughter at home and I'm going to protect my family at all cost and my liberty and their liberty. When I think about where our nation's at right now and I think about the movement, I think about a socialist agenda that's being moved where people can actually talk about getting rid of our fossil fuels, getting rid of our vehicles, getting rid of cows for God's sake. How much sense does that make? Don't you think they're going to come against our guns next? So if we can't stand up and make a point that shakes the very existence of North Carolina goes to the 50 states and shakes Washington, do you see? Everybody needs to know where we stand. Second amendment shall not be infringed in Davidson County. Thank you. Let me remind you of the document that was signed before that, the Declaration of Independence. When it was signed it went to King George. He wanted to study it or whatever. He just kind of ignored it. Just rubbish. Well that document meant that we will no longer stand for tyranny and we liberated the government. We liberated this country. What this resolution needs to me and the people behind me here is here in Davidson County we will no longer stand for tyranny. Thank you for your time. All of the votes are in and it's motion carried.