Can’t disagree with anything you wrote.
Thanks. Here’s something else I observed over the years & expect to see again given the current climate: government snitch hotlines & a campaign to rat out gun owners in the name of public safety. This was done in Washington D.C. in 1976 the year they outlawed handgun ownership & was not overturned until Heller. Posters went up soliciting tips from citizens: “Report an illegal gun, and you don’t have to give your name! Call 1-800-BAN-GUNS now!” (OK, I made that number up)
The poster depicted a giant revolver aimed directly at the reader, with a pair of malevolent eyes blazing behind it.
New York could be the first venue. Ever notice how Cuomo & Obama like to insist that “the vast majority of gun owners agrees with me that assault weapons should be banned!”? You’re thinking “Say what!?” but what happens when the dictatorially minded start believing their own propaganda? The opposite tactic is to declare gun owners a shrinking minority that is mostly white, male, middle aged, soon to die off and vanish like the dodo.
So calling the police hotline & turning in your neighbor for having what you suspect is an illegal gun is being a public-spirited citizen, not an evil little snitch bent on revenge for an old grudge. Of course, the potential for abuse is endless, yet look at the practice of siccing the police on your political opponent, called `SWATing’. A text message from a spoofed address is all it takes.