Bruce Blakeman, the Nassau County executive, is recruiting “special deputies” to deploy during disaster or unrest. Opponents say the move is dangerous.

Bruce Blakeman, the Nassau County executive, is recruiting “special deputies” to deploy during disaster or unrest. Opponents say the move is dangerous.

  • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
    2·
    5 months ago

    otherwise private gun ownership wouldn’t be possible

    That’s the point right there: it was never about private guns for private use. That’s a fiction (in both the legal sense and the colloquial one) that conservative activist judges on the SCOTUS invented to please the people bribing them.

    I do hope you’re correct, but I don’t trust the US government to adhere to common sense anymore

    That’s the problem with legal fictions: they don’t have to be correct or even make sense. If people of sufficient authority says it is so, it legally us so 😮‍💨

    I don’t trust the US government to adhere to common sense anymore

    Me neither.

    • idiomaddict@feddit.de
      2·
      5 months ago

      Yeah, I was interpreting it under the lens of current legal application, not reality. In reality, it’s a group of people who want to violently oppress their fellow citizens through any means possible.