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<blockquote data-quote="Bolly" data-source="post: 1292472" data-attributes="member: 6337"><p><strong>RE: Gun confiscation bill proposed in Virginia</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Not quite exactly that heartwarming, but still decent. I was talking to a small town deputy at the counter in a restaurant one time about this stuff. This was back under Obama. He was saying that him and everyone in his department had agreed if it ever came down to gun confisication and the feds telling police to de arm civilians, no one in his department would enforce it. There was a plan, if it came to that and they were sent to a house they would tell dispatch they arrived, just sit and wait inside the patrol car for five minutes, then get back on the radio and tell dispatch no one was home. Do it again for the next one. I can only hope that attitude still exists out there. </p><p></p><p>But there's a catch. This was back before every agency from big city cops to small town deputies started using body cameras. Those fucking body cameras. On one hand, they're great to protect the officers from bs accusations, but cops can't get away with shit anymore. Which can be good and bad. Good to catch crooked cops; but bad because society needs a little old fashioned street justice sometimes where you might not wanna a camera rolling. That thing has to be rolling the moment you get out of your car. And because you know everything you do and say is being recorded, and you're one misstep from going viral and being on the internet for eternity more cops are letter of the law these days instead of spirit of the law. They know they're walking on eggshells. They're becoming ever more robotic.</p><p></p><p>Like in this case gun confiscation. You couldn't get away with looking the other way as an officer. God forbid you try and look the other way, then the guy goes back and blasts his wife in the face. The officers superiors check the body cam footage, see that Deputy Dan didn't confisicate the gun, and then the wife's family comes back and sues the department and personally the officer into oblivion. Bye bye fat pension and benefits. Or even jail time for the officer.</p><p></p><p>I dunno. The pessimist in me believes most cops wouldn't stand up to gun confisication. Especially in cities. County sheriffs and rural deputies maybe. Knowing the deputies know you know where they live will probably help keep them in check haha. But cities, no way. I can just see them coming to take your shit for sure and take pleasure in it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bolly, post: 1292472, member: 6337"] [b]RE: Gun confiscation bill proposed in Virginia[/b] Not quite exactly that heartwarming, but still decent. I was talking to a small town deputy at the counter in a restaurant one time about this stuff. This was back under Obama. He was saying that him and everyone in his department had agreed if it ever came down to gun confisication and the feds telling police to de arm civilians, no one in his department would enforce it. There was a plan, if it came to that and they were sent to a house they would tell dispatch they arrived, just sit and wait inside the patrol car for five minutes, then get back on the radio and tell dispatch no one was home. Do it again for the next one. I can only hope that attitude still exists out there. But there's a catch. This was back before every agency from big city cops to small town deputies started using body cameras. Those fucking body cameras. On one hand, they're great to protect the officers from bs accusations, but cops can't get away with shit anymore. Which can be good and bad. Good to catch crooked cops; but bad because society needs a little old fashioned street justice sometimes where you might not wanna a camera rolling. That thing has to be rolling the moment you get out of your car. And because you know everything you do and say is being recorded, and you're one misstep from going viral and being on the internet for eternity more cops are letter of the law these days instead of spirit of the law. They know they're walking on eggshells. They're becoming ever more robotic. Like in this case gun confiscation. You couldn't get away with looking the other way as an officer. God forbid you try and look the other way, then the guy goes back and blasts his wife in the face. The officers superiors check the body cam footage, see that Deputy Dan didn't confisicate the gun, and then the wife's family comes back and sues the department and personally the officer into oblivion. Bye bye fat pension and benefits. Or even jail time for the officer. I dunno. The pessimist in me believes most cops wouldn't stand up to gun confisication. Especially in cities. County sheriffs and rural deputies maybe. Knowing the deputies know you know where they live will probably help keep them in check haha. But cities, no way. I can just see them coming to take your shit for sure and take pleasure in it. [/QUOTE]
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