Maybe shoot kidnappers? Amazing how often your guns are used to kill school children and how rarely to fight injustice.
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Maybe shoot kidnappers?
Normal people cannot legally carry firearms into a Court House.
Is there no law enforcements with weapons in your courts? And also what about the kidnappers on the streets? Have any gotten shot so far?
Iknow people simply do not want to risk their life and thats fair but i wonder about the use scenario for all these weapons you guys own and i do not understand why besides having a fetish for weapons.
I like to shoot far off cans, bottles, and targets out in the country. I've never shot an animal (that I know of) or a person (pretty confident about that one) and if there was some rabble-rousing going on and I was for some reason armed and loaded I don't have the mental capacity nor the confidence to decide who lives and dies. Just because I own guns doesn't mean I'm your defender. You should go buy a gun and become the justice decider you describe. Become the change you want to see.
What is happening is abhorrent. Morons with guns aren't the answer.
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Let’s assume for a moment that the abducters here were federal agents.
How long before people get the bright idea that they can pull a stunt like this without being federal agents? Has that already happened?
Florida Woman Posed as ICE Agent to Detain Ex-Boyfriend's Wife: Police https://www.newsweek.com/florida-woman-latrance-battle-ice-agent-detain-ex-boyfriend-wife-2062962
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Pretty sure some people showed up at San Francisco City Hall claiming to be with DOGE and demanding they be given access to personal files.
It was just some insane MAGA duds pretending to be with DOGE.
Especially with ICE going into schools and other previous safe zones now, think about how easy it would be for people to take advantage of these situations.
If a person is already willing to kidnap someone, do you really think they wouldn't easily be willing to disguise their own identity, command authority and prey on people's fears of retaliation for not complying?
I suppose the scenario I was really thinking of is one where someone is literally abducted by adults, and not just fucking idiot kids playing fuck around.
Which has happened in the article posted here, we're just taking them on their word that they're actually federal agents.
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Wow you really can’t tell the difference between officials and gangs of criminals these days.
They're the same picture.
By design. It reminds me of another article posted on Lemmy recently, that "tough on crime" jurisdictions are making it less safe to live in those jurisdictions.
“Is it worth the trouble to go to court?” Reppucci asked. “I think it’s going to make it much harder, inherently harder, and more likely that people will disregard lawfully issued subpoenas, both by the prosecution and by defense attorneys and by civil attorneys and, even perhaps, dare we say, in divorce cases or custody case hearings that people are going to evaluate whether or not it makes sense to follow lawful state orders.”
Indeed, kidnapping is one of the things that drug cartels are known for. Now we have people claiming to be federal officers doing kidnapping? There needs to be a LOT of pushback over this, it's crazy and ridiculous.
Federal agents have been in league with cartels before.
https://jacobin.com/2023/03/us-mexico-war-on-drugs-garcia-luna-calderon
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These gestapo need to be doxxed
You misspelled shot.
I think this is one of those pearl clutching instances that won't take kindly to that kind of language. You need to use the legal system to oppose the corrupt legal system, I guess.
Maybe, but writing mean articles about them isn't going to stop them, and they have the support of the trump administration. The only thing that's going to stop them is if they're afraid they might not go home afterwards.
Obviously the next step for them will be gearing up like they're going into combat, but that really starts making people pay attention to what's going on
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They don't need to be mutually exclusive
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What alarmed Nicholas Reppucci, head of the Charlottesville Office of the Public Defender, is that the enforcers called in to detain the two men in the city Tuesday morning were wearing plain clothes and did not display badges or arrest warrants.
Sounds an awful lot like kidnapping. So then the question becomes: why didn’t the court officers or local police arrest the so-called “ICE agents”? Up to and including firing on the assailants, if necessary? Because if you don’t show your badge, and you can’t back it up, you are not who you say you are. And that becomes broad-ass daylight kidnapping. And the actual uniformed officers did nothing (I know why they did nothing - the call is coming from inside the house).
Well maybe we can use this and go get Lugi. Just claim to be ICE and maybe the courts let us get him, thinking we going deport him to El Salvador.
Hey, if it’s stupid but it works, it’s not that stupid.
Because the people who work at the court were likely complicit.
Of course they wouldn't tell the Public Defender, but that doesn't mean that he bailiff or whatever, wasn't in on it.
Sounds like a courthouse that is absolutely corrupt of the constitution and should be all held to treason. The U.S. brought back the firing squad, and the president preaches for no trials. If anyone knows me I love this country. That said, I'm fairly sure this country says we are required to shoot the judge by firing squad without a trial? Or maybe they havent been clear. Is it just racism based slaughter, or slaughter all around they support?
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