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bluestateguy

(44,173 posts)
Mon Dec 7, 2015, 10:11 PM Dec 2015

I'm reposting this thread from October (the police & guns)

Do you trust the police to fairly enforce all the new gun laws that you support?

I for one do not. More gun laws means more powers for police. Right now that is not what we need to be doing. The police would enforce new gun laws by disproportionately harassing poor people, black people, Hispanic people and Muslim people. "Weapons charges" would become the basis for more arbitrary searches and bashing down people's doors in no-knock raids. If you think the cops will vigorously enforce new gun restrictions upon white male rednecks, you are living in a fantasy world.

I favor enforcing existing laws on the books, closing the gun show loophole and the background check bill that stalled in the Senate last year.

But that's about it.


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I'm reposting this thread from October (the police & guns) (Original Post) bluestateguy Dec 2015 OP
And of course the No Fly List thing bluestateguy Dec 2015 #1
have to agree with the ACLU Duckhunter935 Dec 2015 #2
 

Duckhunter935

(16,974 posts)
2. have to agree with the ACLU
Mon Dec 7, 2015, 10:25 PM
Dec 2015

I do not think we should use the Bush secret list with no due process on American citizens to deny a constitutional right.

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