RE: No knock warrants
September 17, 2020 at 1:53 pm
(This post was last modified: September 17, 2020 at 1:56 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(September 17, 2020 at 1:19 pm)Brian37 Wrote: If one is going to argue that the want both society safe and police safe, then to me, the issue is always weapons, on both sides.
Nah, just one.
No matter how you cut it, infringing on the rights of we the people is a lift.
It's not an infringement, however, to place additional restrictions or scrutiny, or curtail even the most basic freedoms, of a person in the service of the government acting in an official capacity. There's a wide range of shit that a private citizen on their own time can do that a government employee on our time cannot.
Patrol officers carrying lethal weapons could be one of those things. They stopped letting me bring a gun to work a long time ago. There's nothing unconstitutional (or even unconscionable) about a heavily armored patrol officer, rather than a heavily armed one. A heavily armed patrol officer...with less than lethals, rather than a man with a pistol and a rifle. Like so many other developed countries, we could even put in weapons teams, because america!
The vast majority of police officers do not need guns. They are a right of american citizens, but we do not have to allow police officers the blanket privilege of carrying them in their capacity as government agents on official business.
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