Jazz, per your inference, we are not a police state unless they summarily execute people accused of crimes. Fine, by that definition, we are not a police state. I can assume then, that at this point, you will consider nothing less to be a police state.
To refer to a individual policeman as 'the government' SHOULD equal out to an individual being 'the people'. That should categorically confirm, without a doubt, that the second amendment is then NOT a states right, but an individual right.
I read the whole decision. What I see is a federal judge utilizing particular statements out of context and then obfuscating terms of agency and trooper to clear one of their LEO's. This LEO, as an individual, authorized, bought, and transferred, without the express authority of the ISP department, a machinegun. If a civilian tried that, it would result in his immediate arrest.
I realize that this particular case means nothing to the statists, socialists, and communists around the country, seeing how you're completely fine with the government saying what you can and cannot do, and this is whats killing this country.
What will you do when the government tells you that the freedom of speech is now restricted to 'the people' only when authorized, or that the freedom of the press is limited to what the government allows them to print?
sad state of america.
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