Our Police State

[Waggs098]

Originally Posted by bobabode

You've been hanging out at D'uhmerican Rifleman.com too much.

Never been to that site.

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by Waggs098

Never been to that site.

Here, let me guide you, dip. It's https://www.americanrifleman.org/

Make sense now?

[Waggs098]

Originally Posted by bobabode

Here, let me guide you, dip. It's https://www.americanrifleman.org/

Make sense now?

Yes i knew what you were refering to. Still never been to that site.

[RickeyM]

met·a·phor
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noun
a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.

[donquixote99]

Originally Posted by Waggs098

Sorry but what exactly are you getting at here?

The fact that if you have a gun in the house, there's a greater chance of a family member using it on themselves or another family member, than there is of it being used on an intruder. So bringing in a gun makes a household less safe, on average.

[donquixote99]

Vox takes an in-depth look at the Police Problem. They are warriors by training and culture. But for most of what we need them to do, warriors aren't the best fit.
https://www.vox.com/2020/7/31/213341...eform-training

[Waggs098]

Originally Posted by donquixote99

The fact that if you have a gun in the house, there's a greater chance of a family member using it on themselves or another family member, than there is of it being used on an intruder. So bringing in a gun makes a household less safe, on average.

Ok I can see that but you could also say bringing knives into a house makes it less safe. How many people slit their wrists? How many would do whatever bad with a knife or sword if a gun wasn't in the house? How many people hang themselves? How many people are killed by being strangled?

I grew up where there were at least 30 guns on the property and me and my siblings were taught proper gun usage and safety.

[Chicks]

DHS compiled ‘intelligence reports’ on journalists who published leaked documents

https://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...c21_story.html

The Department of Homeland Security has compiled “intelligence reports” about the work of American journalists covering protests in Portland, Ore., in what current and former officials called an alarming use of a government system meant to share information about suspected terrorists and violent actors.

Over the past week, the department’s Office of Intelligence and Analysis has disseminated three Open Source Intelligence Reports to federal law enforcement agencies and others, summarizing tweets written by two journalists — a reporter for the New York Times and the editor in chief of the blog Lawfare — and noting they had published leaked, unclassified documents about DHS operations in Portland. The intelligence reports, obtained by The Washington Post, include written descriptions and images of the tweets and the number of times they had been liked or retweeted by others.

After The Post published a story online Thursday evening detailing the department’s practices, the acting homeland security secretary, Chad Wolf, ordered the intelligence office to stop collecting information on journalists and announced an investigation into the matter.

The DHS intelligence reports, which are unclassified, are traditionally used for sharing the department’s analysis with federal law enforcement agencies, state and local officials, and some foreign governments. They are not intended to disseminate information about American citizens who have no connection to terrorists or other violent actors and who are engaged in activity protected by the First Amendment, current and former officials said.

[RickeyM]

OK so Chad Wolf, ordered the intelligence office to stop collecting information on journalists.
Who ordered them to start in the first place and to what ends?

[Chicks]

Originally Posted by RickeyM

OK so Chad Wolf, ordered the intelligence office to stop collecting information on journalists.
Who ordered them to start in the first place and to what ends?

Officials who are familiar with the reports, and who spoke on the condition of anonymity to candidly discuss them, said they are consistent with the department’s aggressive tactics in Portland, and in particular the work of the Intelligence and Analysis Office, which they worried is exceeding the boundaries of its authority in an effort to crack down on “antifa” protesters to please President Trump. He and other senior administration officials have used that “anti-fascist” label to describe people in Portland and other cities who are protesting police violence, as well as others who have vandalized statues and memorials to Confederate officers that they consider racist.

Trumpkin assholes, as usual.