… Every bit of this reeks of corruption — the sort of small-town corruption where the perpetrators feel the locals are far too few, or far too weak, to fight back. And it gets worse. Sherman Smith and the Kansas Reflector have been digging into whatever they’ve actually been able to obtain with public records requests. And those documents show everyone was in on it… including the supposed neutral party now performing its own investigation of the raids: the Kansas Bureau of Investigation.
Marion Police Chief Gideon Cody enlisted the support of local and state law enforcement officials in the days before he led raids on the local newspaper office, the publisher’s home and the home of a city councilwoman.
The Kansas Bureau of Investigation, Kansas Department of Revenue, Marion County Sheriff’s Office and the Office of the State Fire Marshal — along with the county attorney and a magistrate judge — were complicit in the Aug. 11 raid or knew it was imminent. But in the days that followed, they largely downplayed their involvement. …
I’m no gun fetishist, but isn’t this exactly the type of shit the 2nd amendment was supposed to be for?
I strongly suspect those who took part in this obviously illegal raid were the same people who talk up the 2nd amendment. Y’know, to protect against government overreach, abuse of power, that sort of thing.
No, the 2nd amendment was so that we wouldn’t have to have a standing army. Instead local citizenry would take up arms against foreign aggressors. It would have the added benefit of having a trained citizenry who could stand up to a tyrannical government… if they were trained and not just armed, of course.
Yep. In the 18th Century, that’s what “well regulated” meant.
Luckily we’ve moved passed such silly definitions and just conveniently ignore those kinds of ridiculous necessities like “firearm safety” and “reasonable response”.
Wow, no, this was never the idea. Government was designed to be respected and voted on, not overthrown with weapons.
You realize the Second Amendment was written by folks who had literally just finished overthrowing their government with weapons, right?
Yeah because it wasn’t a democracy.
Exactly! That’s why the 2nd is one of the most important checks against the US ceasing to be a democracy.
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… And therefore they were hoping the same would soon happen to themselves? Logical.
They were hoping the possibility would keep them honest.
-Thomas Jefferson
The whole point of a government is to function, not to be burned down at the slightest disagreement