An 84-year-old Korean War-era vet was reinstated to his position on Columbus Day after he’d been dismissed and had his guns taken away due to a misunderstanding.
Stephen Nichols, who had been a police officer himself and who served in the Army during the Korean War, had been dismissed from his post as a school crossing guard and his personal firearms taken away recently after a waitress at a local diner thought she heard him discuss a “school shooting.”
In a recent conversation with a friend at the diner, he had commented on the way a school resource officer took frequent coffee breaks away from the school — apparently leaving the school vulnerable, in Nichols’ opinion, to a potential tragedy in this age of mass shootings in this country.
But a waitress misunderstood the comments and reported them to police.
That is what reportedly led to Nichols’ dismissal and the confiscation of his personal guns from his home.
ht/ jethro
That’s why due process is vital, folks.
seriously, someone (some group) needs to step up & defend our Constitutional right to bear arms within every State, regardless of State edicts … SHALL NOT BE INFRINGHED is so plainly expressed, that there is not doubt that ‘the people’ cannot be denied their right of freedom of personal protection, particularly from government … any government!
The greatest problem lies with evil minded liberals and hypertensive assholes.
I not sure if there is a fair way to distinguish between the two.
Now fire the nosy bitch of a waitress.
In other words, you better not discuss anything in public or the Statzi is gonna get you.
Who saw this coming??!
He should sue. This story needs to be shared everywhere.
The gun grabbing commies tell you that a professional opinion is need to grab your guns but this shows that is a lie.
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be “cured” against one’s will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.“ – C. S. Lewis
We need more block watchers
A criminal threat is the one and only red flag.
Come to D.C., ma’am. We’re looking for a few good whistleblowers, and you’re a natural.
95% of the Gestapo’s work came from “informers.”
I’d bet that the NKVD, FBI, and KGB (now the Federal Security Service) have about the same proportions.
People willing to pimp out their friends and neighbors for a pat on the head (or, sometimes, something more substantial).
izlamo delenda est …
@ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ October 16, 2019 at 12:02 am
> seriously, someone (some group) needs to step up & defend our Constitutional right
“Your” Constitution? Well, aren’t you precious!
“See [or hear] something, say something,” right? If Red Flag laws pass, everyone’s a snitch for the government. And you know progressives are just itching to use those laws against gun-owning conservatives they don’t like, which is all of them.
@ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ
The SCOTUS ruled in the same-sex marriage case that all states must honor the marriage of queers that was legally performed in any state. It cited the Due Process Clause and Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment in making its ruling.
Concealed carry in every state should be honored if obtained legally in any state under this ruling, but it has not been heard yet.
If a convicted felon successfully completes his/her penalization, should his/her right to own and carry be re-instated? The dems want to give the right to vote back to convicted felons.
Anymouse OCTOBER 14, 2019 AT 4:39 PM
Not Cali, but this is how it works…
https://bearingarms.com/came/2019/10/14/84-year-old-retired-cop-guns-seized-school-safety-comment/?utm_source=badaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&bcid=a9baaef2c95edf5728db315658102ec0
I note very often “great minds think alike” or in this case report…
My question is did he retake possession of his guns and was his “GUN OWNERSHIP LICENSE” returned to him???
Violate a fundamental right because “someone said something.”
Wait ’til Tlaib & Omar hear about this!
From what I can tell, the President stays pretty current on the news.
Hope he has been paying attention, this isn’t the first one.
The sheriff should be forced to marry this waitress.
When this first started, I ranted and raved, just ask my wife.
What was ranted, has become a Prog rave.
I politely asked the question on this story about whether his property and license had been restored this morning.
Funny how my comment isn’t published.
http://tbdailynews.com/tisbury-police-chief-reinstates-veteran-crossing-guard-after-illegally-confiscating-guns-new-principal-is-married-to-school-resource-officer-who-was-criticized/