teedubbya wrote:Why is it even a program. If I call the cops and tell them there is a big bag of weed or a murder weapon in my house somewhere but I can't seem to find it I'm sure they will help me without inventing a new program.
There is more here. It's a Trojan horse (no Zrx that's not the new larger size)
^ I guess that's the argument for why I don't think it's a "trojan condom".
Look at the two rights we have to be worried about in this discussion: the defense against involuntary search/seizure, and the right to bear arms. Neither of these rights are being changed at all, or even enforced differently. The "slowly boiling the frog" analogy would require a very small impingement on one or the other of these rights.
Nothing has changed. Prior to this initiative, I'm sure someone could have called the cops if they suspected their kid, roommate, gimp was hoarding some illegally possessed weaponry. Now there is a specific number and the cops have announced they are willing to do this.
They aren't impinging at all on what rights to bear arms we currently have, and they aren't impinging on defense against involuntary search/seizure (they have to be invited over...) It sounds like a bad initiative, and the article does its best to make it all doomy-gloomy, but it isn't doing anything.
The whole thing could be completely and simply made irrelevant if all weaponry were legal for all people to own and keep in their house.