If guns are your issue, Utah might be the place to live if the links that David sent us this morning are to be believed. <\/p>\n
A homeowner arrived at his home to discover a man with a prybar at his door and a woman in his driveway honking the horn on her car frantically to warn prybar guy;<\/p>\n
\u201cHe saw a male exit the home, he had some type of pry-bar in his hand. The homeowner then returned to his car and retrieved a handgun from his car and two rounds were fired before officers arrived. We\u2019re still investigating where the rounds were fired,\u201d said Layton Police Lt. Shawn Horton.<\/p>\n
The male suspect, identified as 43-year-old Robert Santos Cruz, tried running from the house as officers arrived, but he was caught a short time later.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Meanwhile, Utah’s sheriffs have sent a letter to President Obama warning him that they won’t violate Second Amendment protection in their counties – well, 28 of 29 counties, anyway;<\/p>\n
Part of the letter reads, \u201cNo federal official will be permitted to descend upon our constituents and take from them what the Bill of Rights\u2014in particular Amendment II\u2014has given them.\u201d<\/p>\n
Summit County Sheriff Dave Edmunds, the head of the Utah Sheriffs\u2019 Association, says the letter is just a preemptive warning saying that if anything unconstitutional is passed, local authorities will not enforce it.<\/p>\n
Edmunds says that he doesn\u2019t object to anything proposed by the Obama Administration already.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe thought it prudent from our position knowing full well what the manifest intent of that administration is and they\u2019re being very clear about it, they want gun regulation in this country and they want it to be more widespread,\u201d Edmunds said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n