Trump administration 2024-2028

[brihard]

Like when they bust into the wrong house and some cop takes a shotgun blast to the face?

Or they burst into the ‘right’ house, but in plain clothes and without a warrant, and someone stands their ground or protects their castle or what have you against what they think is a home invasion.

It’s a tremendous erosion of the fourth amendment protections against search and seizure. And like other things, it’s starting with the easiest ‘other’ to demonize, and against whom people will be most forgiving of abuses.

 

[PPCLI Guy]

Nice one!

It's actually from King Lear apparently:

Glouster: “Tis the time’s plague when madmen lead the blind.”

Just Sayin....

 

[quadrapiper]

Or they burst into the ‘right’ house, but in plain clothes and without a warrant, and someone stands their ground or protects their castle or what have you against what they think is a home invasion.

The video of that student activist being picked up by ICE a little while ago seemed ripe for that sort of response, too: a bunch of random guys surrounding someone on the street feels like exactly the sort of scenario a number of US firearms owners worry about and arm themselves to respond to.

 

[McG]

a number of US firearms owners worry about and arm themselves to respond to.

The NRA already forgot what it was apparently its reason to be.

 

[McG]

ICE may have deported a US citizen.

https://bsky.app/profile/kyledcheney.bsky.social%2Fpost%2F3lnogwyfqs72w

 

[brihard]

ICE may have deported a US citizen.

https://bsky.app/profile/kyledcheney.bsky.social%2Fpost%2F3lnogwyfqs72w

Then they came for the toddlers. And I said nothing, because I was not a toddler.

 

[PrairieFella]

ICE may have deported a US citizen.

https://bsky.app/profile/kyledcheney.bsky.social%2Fpost%2F3lnogwyfqs72w

How the fuck do you deport a two year old without her guardian?

 

[brihard]

How the fuck do you deport a two year old without her guardian?

Based on the story it looks like she was deported with her mother, however her mother and father were given almost no time on the phone to figure out a plan and make arrangements for the child to stay in the U.S.

 

[Colin Parkinson]

The NRA already forgot what it was apparently its reason to be.

Umm no

Dismayed by the lack of marksmanship shown by their troops, Union veterans Col. William C. Church and Gen. George Wingate formed the National Rifle Association in 1871. The primary goal of the association would be to "promote and encourage rifle shooting on a scientific basis," according to a magazine editorial written by Church.

After being granted a charter by the state of New York on November 17, 1871, the NRA was founded. Civil War Gen. Ambrose Burnside, who was also the former governor of Rhode Island and a U.S. senator, became the fledgling NRA's first president.

An important facet of the NRA's creation was the development of a practice ground. In 1872, with financial help from New York State, a site on Long Island, the Creed Farm, was purchased for the purpose of building a rifle range. Named Creedmoor, the range opened a year later, and it was there that the first annual matches were held.