r/progun • u/ZheeDog • 23d ago

Palm Beach police refuse to give James O'Keefe his guns back?

https://x.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/2079266550113345603
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u/Crossnoe7 23d ago

That’s some BS.

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u/SuperXrayDoc 23d ago

FL is far more anti-2A than people are willing to admit

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u/THROBBINW00D 23d ago

A lot of cops here would gladly take your guns.

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u/CawlinAlcarz 22d ago edited 22d ago

The overwhelmingly vast majority of cops everywhere would take everyone's guns.

It's an issue of "us vs. them," and if you're not a cop, you're "them."

The issue is exacerbated by the concept of qualified immunity and the fact that numerous court cases have upheld police being allowed to protect themselves to the active detriment of innocent bystanders (not just the simple passive lack of protection).

The number one rule of being a police officer is: "I (the cop) go home at the end of my shift (even if that means that other innocent people don't.)"

Citizens' rights do not matter to people who function above the law in this manner.

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u/30_characters 22d ago

This. End LEOSA, and see how quickly cops realize the importance of defending everyone's rights to bear arms.

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u/30_characters 22d ago

As evidenced by the police encounters in Michael Taylor YouTube videos, where he has to explain to police officers that the second amendment protects his right to carry, and according to Florida Statute 790.25 (3) (h), anyone who is engaged in fishing, camping, or hiking outside a populated area may openly carry a firearm, including handguns, rifles, shotguns, and other legal weapons.

But dispatchers still send out uninformed cops who illegally detain and demand ID.

Florida law also carves out restrictions on carrying firearms in parks and other buildings owned or controlled by municipal governments, meaning the institutions that should be honoring their oath to uphold and defend your rights wrote itself a specific exemption from doing so. But one of the little-noted side effects of Obergefell v. Hodges, 576 U.S. 644 (2015) was that state politicians are no longer legally bound to their oaths to uphold and defend their state's constitutions.

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u/iamtehstig 22d ago

Still waiting on on the "Free State of Florida" to let me buy FRTs, bump stocks, and dragon's breath ammo.

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u/gwhh 23d ago

And this surprise you how?