In Illinois, 114,000 people are banned from owning guns because of legal tangles or mental health issues
  • CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.worldEnglish
    122·
    6 months ago

    If you “lost” it they should tear your fucking house apart with a warrant to make sure it’s really gone.

    It blows my mind that some people think this course of action would be ok, and that it wouldn’t be abused by the authorities.

    • AbidanYre@lemmy.worldEnglish
      54·
      6 months ago

      God forbid we get guns off the streets or out of the hands of criminals.

      I’d be much happier if they were doing it for guns instead of marijuana like they have for the last several decades.

      What makes you think it would be abused any more than warrants are right now?

      • CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.worldEnglish
        63·
        6 months ago

        What makes you think it would be abused any more than warrants are right now?

        Because time after time we’ve seen that when given new powers, new tools, or new technologies, the police abuse them.

        They would absolutely use this power to terrorize their opponents by ransacking their homes, whether they owned a gun or not. I’m not sure that it matters because more than half of this country seems to be ok with living in a fascist dictatorship as long as the dictator happens to be on their ‘side’ for the moment.