Two articles, one for federalization of state and local police, the other against.
The Uvalde event is tailor-made not only to bolster the gun control argument, but also to advance the federal takeover of law enforcement agenda. There’s no rationale to demonize the majority of good cops in this country who, by leaps and bounds - outnumber any bad ones. As an old saying warns, “Be careful what you wish for.”
from the 1998 Federalist Society article:
“Why should there be a bar against the federal government duplicating or taking on the same responsibilities by statute or by practice as local law enforcement? It may be a quaint notion these days, but one of the reasons is the Constitution. There the drafters of the Constitution clearly intended the states to bear the responsibility for public safety. Some states may do it well, and some may do it not as well. The Constitution is not a document that is designed necessarily for perfection or even efficiency. Concerns about oppressive use of governmental power motivated the leaders of our country at its founding to make a clear distinction between where the police power was to be rested. As a matter of fact, to reassure the states that the federal government would not usurp state sovereignty, Alexander Hamilton wrote in the Federalist Number 17 that law enforcement would be the responsibility of the states.”
We should hope that the unending police-bashing here on FR will someday cease. How many times do we have to beat the same drum? How many virtually identical articles have to be posted in the echo chamber? The world is outraged...we get it.
People who argue strenuously against the police are, after a certain point, feeding the agenda for the federal takeover of law enforcement. Ironically the exact opposite principle that informed the Dobbs decision.
A fascinating tidbit: the location of the 9th worst mass killing in the US - Robb Elementary School, matches exactly all four of the main Gematria cyphers of the perpetrator of the 11th worst mass killing, Charles Joseph Whitman: 227. 92. 313. 106. (The main cyphers are: English Ordinal, Full Reduction, Reverse Ordinal, Reverse Full Reduction).