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Gun Control & RKBA

Eleanors38

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3. Most prohibitionists experience highest levels of pleasure when the cops, you know, get in there...

Reply to Nuclear Unicorn (Reply #2)

Thu Feb 11, 2016, 03:29 PM

Feb 2016

It's not some fanciful public safety promotion, or curbing a media-genic "public health" problem. It's about police getting into the very lives of those who are subject to prohibitionism. There is some cruel satisfaction at getting into someone whose status is prohibited, the thing he/she has is banned, or the behavior is unlawful.

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If those with power want to be trusted with that power they must act in a trustworthy manner. Nuclear Unicorn Feb 2016 #1

By the way, this seems like a horrible use of the policy which will deter people from seeking help. Nuclear Unicorn Feb 2016 #2

Most prohibitionists experience highest levels of pleasure when the cops, you know, get in there... Eleanors38 Feb 2016 #3

Somehow I imagine our resident controllers have no issue with this. Marengo Feb 2016 #4