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An example cited in the article mentions a Citizen staffer wanting an escort to a coffee shop...if these are the types of situations where one might want to uti
by newaccount2021 5y ago
An example cited in the article mentions a Citizen staffer wanting an escort to a coffee shop...if these are the types of situations where one might want to utilize a private service...what's the harm? The police aren't your personal bodyguards. Most colleges have walk-home services etc.
In many states, security guards can be armed in public, but so can private citizens.
The endgame for this will be large-scale gated communities that are town-level. A surefire to prevent homelessness in a particular town is for the entire town to be private property. If you can't card-in, you don't get in. Dystopian yes, but probably inevitable, and the trail was blazed by the modern corporate campus that operates on the same principles.
- throwaway15579 5y agoI would say the trail was blazed by cities over-correcting from the war on drugs and basically making low-level crime completely unpunished or enforced.
- klyrs 5y agoWhat happens when your private security is infringing my rights? Maybe I'll hire my own private security to fight your private security. Only a fool brings nonlethal ammo to a knife fight... Funny thing about the second amendment, people always gloss over the well regulated militia, and we're accelerating away from that, pedal to the metal
- newaccount2021 5y agoDid you read the article? No one is suggesting a private army with special legal rights to employ force.
- rootusrootus 5y ago> people always gloss over the well regulated militia Well, 'well regulated' did not mean the same thing in 1791 that it does now. And that part of the amendment was the prefatory clause anyway, so it's moot.