Turns out all you need is a Supreme Court majority on your side and you can wipe your ass with the Constitution.

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    Can’t wait for dems to retake power eventually and do absolutely nothing to prosecute these criminals. ‘We have to promote unity to heal the divide.’

    If the dems were worth a damn they would be loudly shouting from the rooftops ‘when we control the levers of power you will be held accountable for violating the constitution’

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    What about this memo that says they can’t? It also states we can bear arms to protect ourselves from tyranny so… check mate Nazis

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      They clearly abandoned their oaths at all levels, so that document doesn’t mean anything anymore if everybody willfully ignores it daily. At that point, it’s just ink on a paper that is just barley better than a spill.

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    Turns out all you need is a Supreme Court majority on your side and you can wipe your ass with the Constitution.

    Same as it’s always been, they’re just being more brazen about it

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      You don’t even need the courts of your side. The Regime has directly defied court orders time and time again.

      What you really need is a citizenry that’s too afraid or complicit to defend themselves.

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      No, that’s illegal. But AFAIK in all states you can wait inside your door with a shotgun and blast anyone who breaks into your home illegally.

      Better yet, you have the constitutional right to organize 30 or your neighbors to use guns to protect each other from marauding thugs.

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      Its not, but if you are going to Home Alone a bunch of ICE agents illegally entering your house, please record that shit. If its funny enough the jury will absolutely not convict you.

      Imagine those fucks stepping on toy cars and sliding down a stairwell or being hit with powdered sugar and then set on fire.

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        Now I want to see a version of Home Alone where it’s ICE and all the traps are as deadly as they would be in real life.

        There would be piles of bodies around the McCallister house. I wonder if Mac Culkin is busy these days

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    Turns out all you need is a Supreme Court majority on your side and you can wipe your ass with the Constitution.

    Obviously. That is the whole point of the Supreme Court. The surprising thing is that there wasn’t more public concern when Trump selected his sycophant judges.

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    They will absolutely come for the guns next. Once the population is disarmed the civil war will begin. Martial law. Police state. No privacy protections. All amendments abolished. Civil rights act abolished. Military checkpoints at all state borders. Reinstated draft. 10% inflation. 20% unemployment. Reeducation centers. Prison work camps. State takeover of media. Iron curtain. Restricted Internet.

    This year. Get out while the borders are open.

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      Don’t got the money for that. My best option is to fight, provided the people of my state are also willing to die for a better future.

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      If you think they will take guns away from Americans in 2026 at any kind of scale you are very naive

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        Prisoners are profitable and will only become increasingly profitable as they start using them as slave labor, which is specifically allowed under the Constitution. Only chattle slavery was abolished. When they are no longer subject to being voted out of office there is every incentive in the world to arrest people.

        So new executive order: we gotta stop all the school shootings therefore all guns are illegal. Gun owners will be required to turn in their weapons in exchange for a pennies on the dollar buyback. These weapons will then be sold by the government to who the fuck knows. This will be followed by a house to house compliance check where you either produce your receipt or submit to a warrantless search. Anyone caught with a weapon will be sent to a prison work camp making iPhones and drones. Simple as that.

        Oh you want to fight back? Bueno, now you’re a terrorist. This justifies further military presence in your town and seizure of all of your assets. You will be lucky if your family isn’t required to pay upfront for your prison stay.

        I am not being naive. I am being real. I am an American but I was not educated in the American school system. I understand what is happening because it has happened a thousand times to a thousand other countries. There is a standard operation of events and we are following a textbook march into dictatorship.

        • crypt0cler1c
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          Do you know anything at all about the laws surrounding prison labor?

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            We are witnessing an administration who does not consider themselves to be bound by established laws and norms. We are watching our constitutional rights being eroded one by one in real time. Do you think he will ever say “oh man I would love to do something but it would be illegal if I did”. Who is being naive now?

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      Other than the black Panthers ain’t nobody already with guns doing anything right now.

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    So just to be clear. The EPA cannot make regulations despite full congressional authority to do so because that is “creating law” without a direct legislative process. But ICE, an agency that doesn’t even have real law enforcement powers, can just ignore the fourth amendment entirely because the president said so?

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      The answer to that is, legally no. However, that doesn’t stop them from doing it illegally.

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        Which by DEFINITION, would not include Un-Constitutional behavior. No violation of the Constitution could ever be construed as an “Official Act.”

        No SCOTUS had ever put guardrails on the president in almost 250 years, but this SCOTUS reinforced that he has immunity for “Official Acts,” and nobody realizes that they just put guardrails on the presidency for the first time.

        Everybody thinks it gives him immunity for EVERYTHING while he is president, but they specifically said “Official Acts,” which would be those outlined in the Constitution. Anything deemed Un-Constitutional, would not be an “Official Act,” and he would not have immunity, just like any other citizen.

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          Guardrails? I think you should re-read their decision again. They gave him protection because until now even official acts didn’t necessarily protect the president. And now, it doesn’t matter what illegal thing he does as long as it’s part of an official act. ANYTHING. Because as long as it’s part of an official act they can’t even question it. And they didn’t even provide a list of what constitutes an official act.

          So they literally put the president above all laws provided he can tie it back to some vague notion of an official act.

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      The EPA cannot make regulations… But ICE, an agency that doesn’t even have real law enforcement powers, can just ignore the fourth amendment entirely because the president said so?

      Today you learned the difference between creating regulations and enforcing existing regulations, congrats.

      If ICE violates your 4th amendment rights shutup and enjoy your multimillion dollar lawsuit. If you aren’t entitled to said lawsuit then your rights weren’t violated.

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      EPA could absolutely just ignore the law when making regulations. It wouldn’t even need any congressional authority. It just makes the law and when someone sues them, the judge says “nah, it’s okay with me” and that’s it.

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      Not really. Remember Wilhoit’s Law:

      “Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition …There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.”

      When they do it, its castle doctrine and qualified immunity and civil rights. When anyone else does it its terrorism. Your comment makes me think you haven’t fully digested the situation and still think the US is a nation of laws. If so, you are gravely mistaken.

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        You misunderstand. People will enforce the Castle Doctrine long before this gets to SCOTUS.

        They already are, actually. I watched a video yesterday of a guy who said what he would do with his Second Amendment if ICE kicked in the door, and of course they ran away.

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          This is what the bootlickers in this thread seem to be missing… the first time it happens, all the rest of the ICE cosplay pussies are going to think twice before they create the circumstances for it to happen again. Death doesn’t care about what the court says a year later.

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          Castle Doctrine the personal principle, yes. Castle doctrine the law that is upheld in court when unidentified masked men without a warrant bust into someone’s home, get shot in the face and the courts respect the law as written even when it turns out after the fact it was ICE? Well, I’ll believe it when I see it.

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        There’s no justice under the Robert’s court. There wasn’t any before the Robert’s court, but there isn’t any now either.

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          Yes. It’s not binary, but a scale that keeps sliding further and further down the savagery of an uncivilized shithole.

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      The time for that was Jan 7, 2020.

      If someone is buying a gun today and they haven’t fired one yet, they’re kinda just a loot crate.

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        Yeah I don’t think the kirk fountain worked out as well as they’d hoped when they tried to capitalize on it.

        That said, I don’t think the escalation will stop anyway, so self defense is worth it.

        For anyone who will be purchasing a firearm, please, please go to a range. Practice with it. Be familiar with how it works, maintenance, and basic repairs, and store it responsibly.

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          At this point… go to the range daily. You’re going to be pretty shitty until you’ve had a handful of trips out there.

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            Especially if newer, or if you’re in your 40s+ and you suddenly recognize that you need readers - damn that really changed things for me. Tried some non-stock sights from a friend and WOW what a difference (and the truglo tfos are really, really nice fwiw)

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          Yup, the most likely people to get shot with a gun are the owner and the owner’s family. Gotta know what the hell you’re doing.

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            100%.

            I’ve handled a gun from a fairly young age, taught by my grandfather, a ww2 vet. Over the years I’ve shot skeet, some shooting competitions for fun, etc.

            The most dangerous people I’ve ever seen at any of those places/events were the kind of people who loved buying lots and lots of guns, especially the 2A nuts who claim its all about protecting from the tyranny of the federal government. IMO, they just wanted to feel powerful - and as a result, they were negligent and dangerous. I know one of them who shot themselves in the leg pretty recently, because they ignored the most basic rule - treat every gun as if its always loaded. Guess what? That one was! And now he has a hole in his leg.

            Sorry for getting into a rant there.

            Guns are horrifically dangerous and should always be treated as such.

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              Yup. I’m the type of person to hit 8/10 clay pigeons and complain about wasting ammo. And the most dangerous people I’ve seen at a range are the dudes with the lifted pickups on dirt tires (which have never been in the dirt). They treat gun ownership like cosplay.

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                They treat gun ownership like cosplay.

                Damnit, you just said it perfectly in one short phrase, and I just rambled.

                That’s exactly the type I’m talking about.

                I’m a big fan of clay rabbits, the random hops make it so much fun!

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              My experience has been the polar opposite. Everyone I’ve met at ranges and competitions were very mindful and responsible people that were knowledgeable about the laws and history of the hobby. The most irresponsible gun handling I’ve ever witnessed was the one year I went to deer camp with a former coworker.

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                I’d say the overwhelming majority were mindful and responsible, what I commented on were the ones at those places and events that were not.

                Could also be a regional thing - a few of them ive been to were in states that think the civil war was about states rights, and leave off the part about the rights being about owning people.

                The one I mentioned where someone recently made an air hole in their leg is from one of those states.

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                  Fair enough. I’ve never competed down south but having family in Georgia I’m all too familiar with the “War of Northern Aggression” types.