City Wants Power to "Disarm Individuals" During Crisis

[R8ers]

[KChiefer]

Originally Posted by BucEyedPea

I wouldn't bank on that. There's some subjectivity and she's still a politician.

Be a skeptical theorist if you like, but here's what she said.

“This is in there to protect public workers and any volunteers helping should someone become unruly — which can happen since emotions are high — that it would give an officer that authority,” the mayor told ABC 31. “It’s just there to protect people.”

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/...esidents-even/

And the state already has this law on it's books...

However, WHNT News 19 has learned that Alabama law already gives every police officer and deputy in the state this exact same authority during an emergency. It’s actually been law since 1955.

The Code of Alabama, 31-9-10, Section C 2 reads as follows: “A law enforcement officer who is acting in the lawful discharge of the officer’s official duties may disarm an individual if the officer reasonably believes that it is immediately necessary for the protection of the officer or another individual. The officer shall return the firearm to the individual before discharging that individual unless the officer arrests that individual for engaging in criminal activity or seizes the firearm as evidence pursuant to an investigation for the commission of a crime or, at the discretion of the officer, the individual poses a threat to himself or herself or to others.”

This is almost the exact same wording of the Guntersville ordinance.

http://whnt.com/2013/02/26/guntersvi...rs-resolution/

[BucEyedPea]

So. Reasonably believes is one of those subjective statements. The cops too often feel threatened for little to no reason.

And she still has no right. She's just defending the state more than an individual's rights. That's a tyrant in my book.

[cosmo20002]

Originally Posted by cosmo20002

"The new rule would allow authorities to confiscate the firearms of disorderly people"

Isn't that already generally the case? If a cop thinks you are "disorderly", and you have a gun, he's probably going to take it.

Originally Posted by BucEyedPea

You're a nut.

Originally Posted by KChiefer

And the state already has this law on it's books...

Quote:
However, WHNT News 19 has learned that Alabama law already gives every police officer and deputy in the state this exact same authority during an emergency. It’s actually been law since 1955.

Originally Posted by BucEyedPea

You're a nut.

[BucEyedPea]

You're still a nut.