• Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
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    20 hours ago

    So Texas made a law that if someone is not found convicted of a felony for a gun crime they can’t be sued in civil court over it.

    This is how you get vigilantes.

    • chiliedogg@lemmy.world
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      16 hours ago

      That’s the idea.

      They openly allowed armed civilian militias like the “Minutemen” and “United Constitutional Patriots” to detain and hold migrants at gunpoint until CBP arrived.

      Hell - in the 80s a militia group calling itself the “Civiliian Military Assistant” was actually making border raids into Mexico to shoot on migrants before they crossed the border.

      • wanderingmagus@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        2 hours ago

        You know, these folks keep worrying about the cartels and the Black Panthers. And the more I read, the more I wish that what they feared most actually came to pass, and Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generación actually rolled a few APCs into their neighborhoods and started a scorched earth campaign or three.