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

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    No matter who’s president? Because fighting off rebellions was a big part of what those militias were used for.

    Ostensibly. They’re obviously lying, but that’s what they say.

    It’s WELL-regulated, not “barely regulated at all with little to no enforcement to speak of”

    It’s my understanding that the extant gun laws are legally considered to fulfill this requirement, otherwise private gun ownership wouldn’t be possible. Personally I disagree, but I’m not sure what standard would otherwise be used.

    I do hope you’re correct, but I don’t trust the US government to adhere to common sense anymore. I guess we’ll see what the court says, because someone’s going to challenge this.

    Or maybe he’ll get voted out in November and this will be disbanded before anything happens with it. I think that’s probably the best option, because then it doesn’t get a chance to be approved by this SCOTUS and nobody has to have their civil rights violated by this group.

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      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.

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        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.