“the cops can have temporary custody of my weapon whilst theyre making sure Im not a thug, but I want it back before they leave.”
Ya, good luck with that.
This is just more power for the police state. Whenever you hear “the children” or “officer safety” you know it’s ends with statists seizing more of your liberty. Local police are now at absolute odds with the people they are supposed to serve and unfortunately most have the mindset to match. Law enforcement has become nothing more than the intimidation arm of government.
‘Law enforcement has become nothing more than the intimidation arm of government.’
Yup.
Kinda sad for an Old Geezer such as I, who can remember when cops were our friends.
shoudl a cop sto me, he doesn’t know who I am or whether I’m dangerous or not. he can take my gun and put it in his cruiser for the duration of tha traffic stop. I think that’s reasonable. he also should return it to me at the end of the stop.
There such things as common sense. You have the right to carry a gun and protect yourself, but it does not include carrying it while a police is searching your car. You should be questioning why the police should be allowed to search your car in the first place, but not whether they could hold onto your gun while searching
What is being designed is a deep division between LEOs and the people. It is the early staging to accomplish the later employment to confiscate and overwhelm citizenry. The current LEO midset must be manipulated to reach an ‘us or them’ mentality which can then be employed to have teams work through neighborhoods ‘pacifying the citizenry’. We The People just aren’t supposed to catch on yet ...