Last week, the Biden administration urged the Supreme Court to uphold warrantless gun confiscation policies. The case, Caniglia v. Strom, is considering whether police “acted lawfully by entering a man’s home and removing his firearms” without a warrant after he had expressed thoughts of suicide and was taken to the hospital for a psychiatric evaluation.
The court case noted that a police officer “must act as a master of all emergencies, who is ‘expected to provide an infinite variety of services to preserve and protect community safety.” The court also heard arguments explaining when police “operate without a warrant, there are necessary exceptions that are designed to give police elbow room to take appropriate action”.
Compare this to the coverage against no-knock warrants following the death of Breonna Taylor. CNN said that banning “no-knock warrants is not enough” after her death. Rolling Stone ran an article titled “No-Knock Warrants: Inside Police Tactic That Killed Breonna Taylor”. ABC ran a story discussing no-knock warrants as, “police tactics that can lead to deadly middle-of-the-night raids”.
The policy of warrantless gun confiscation goes further than a no-knock warrant ever will. Under this policy, the court authorizes warrantless entries into homes and seizures of people and their firearms when officers “have reasonable belief public safety is in jeopardy”.
Biden’s administration’s push to allow law enforcement to enter homes without warrants is a severe policy shift from the current narrative regarding polices’ scope of influence. Yet, there is barely any media coverage. As the headlines cover both the “war on gun violence” and “defund the police”, this week’s Supreme Court hearing has found the media at a crossroads of both issues.
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COME on JOE, that is a No No ! Warrantless , really? Joe, will Hunter’s guns be taken?
With the corruption in Washington DC, I know exactly what will happen, the corrupt FBI, Federal Marshals and other law enforcement agencies will illegally go after the politicians enemies, meaning those of us that are Conservative.
They’ll probably start with any Trump supporter in the military/guard/police force that recently retired.
SturmSoldaten. Heil Biden!
The soon to be vice president Nazi Nancy Pelosi has stated her objectives.
The “Socialist Democrat Party State” political officers and Gestapo are just getting started.
You will obey, be loyal and support the “Socialist Democrat Party State” or you will be classified as
“Enemies of the State”.
Sure fire way for police officers to be killed. Great communist occupier democrat NON-thinking there, Quid Pro Joe.. or should I say… the people programing him to string together a sentence or two on the subject… WELL DONE…. keep up the good work.
OF course the media is silent. THEY WANT the gestapo, to come and seize all our guns.. SO WE can’t resist the completion of their take over of our nation.
Careful, this is one of the primary causes for the revolutionary war. The British were entering colonists homes and confiscating their fire arms. It is also why the “Founding Fathers” enshrined the basic right to own firearms to defend your rights, not just self defense, but your basic God given rights like freedom of speech, thought, and expression.
The court case noted that the police must act as a master of all emergencies, who is expected to provide an infinite variety of services. So, the next time I have a water leak in my plumbing, I’ll call the police to fix it.
The police already have the right to bust down your door without a warrant. It’s called exigent circumstances, such as hearing a voice calling for help, or seeing flames through a window. They don’t have the right to confiscate ANYTHING without a warrant, and NEVER should.
Strange how they say “The police are masters of emergencies”. ESPECIALLY after they said SEVERAL TIMES, that cops do NOT HAVE A DUTY TO protect we the people… So which is it?