r/worldnewsvideo • u/CantStopPoppin 🔍Sourcer📚 🍿 PopPop🍿 • Dec 03 '22

News Report 🌏 Family demands answers after Austin police shooting leaves man dead on his own porch

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u/Basilthebatlord Dec 03 '22

If this is how the police respond the the mere presence of a firearm, the second amendment is dead.

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u/PauI_MuadDib Dec 03 '22

Been like that for awhile now. There was a big lawsuit where an officer in Minneapolis held a female driver at gunpoint just because he noticed her gun permit in her wallet and automatically assumed she was a threat to his "safety." I don't think she even actually had a firearm in her possession at the time either.

The police argued that simply having a legal firearm permit automatically makes you threat to their safety and they should be allowed to use immediate deadly force against you.

https://kstp.com/kstp-news/top-news/driver-held-at-gunpoint-for-having-permit-to-carry-settles-with-minneapolis-park-board-100k/.

It was potentially an interesting 2A case. If police can kill you for just lawfully having a gun permit, do you really have a 2A right if police threaten your safety for just exercising your constitutional right?

Police in Texas were getting twitchy too about the change in gun laws.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/26/us/texas-guns-permitless.html.

But in a country with 2A cops need to understand that people have a right to carry, and that you just can't give into paranoia and murder everyone because you mistakenly "feared for your life." Cops wanna go home to their families? Well, so does everyone else. You are not more important than other citizens.

And if the police are too paranoid to responsibly handle a firearm maybe they shouldn't have guns outside of SWAT or special units. A cop recklessly handling a firearm is a danger to other officers and the public.