That the effectiveness of Minutemen Border Watch Project got somebody’s attention.
An individual or group of individuals commits domestic terrorism if the individual or group of individuals are not affiliated with a local, state or federal law enforcement entity and associate with another individual or group of individuals as an organization, group, corporation or company for the purpose of patrolling to detect alleged illegal activity or to individually patrol for the purpose of detecting alleged illegal activity and if the individual or group of individuals is armed with a firearm or other weapon.
I’d gotten this in an email from the brother of my co-worker, Paul, who is actually down on the border, but had mistakenly sent it to the spam folder while doing my Friday cleaning, so I’m glad that The Heartless Libertarian had links up to this post at Traction Control.
While I agree with HL on his thoughts as to what would happen if this passes, I forsee that the only group who would be forcibly disarmed along the border would be the Minutemen. The illegal aliens who run drugs will still be free, if not legally allowed, to carry their firearms.
BTW, Kim du Toit’s take on it is definitely worth a read.
Did they consider what this will do to private security guards, private investigators, etc?
There will probably be some sort of narrowly worded exception for private security companies with the proper certification.
You can also kiss neighborhood watch goodbye, even if they are only armed with pepper spray or even a stick/cane.