Wednesday, January 18, 2012

New York Moves to Deploy Body Scanners on Street in Search for Guns

The idiots who rationalized the infringements of 4th amendment rights with arguments that you don't have to fly if you don't want to be illegally searched will soon be suggesting we all sit in our houses on house arrest in order to avoid illegal searches at the ballpark, train station, grocery store, and intersections. 

NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly told CBS in New York his department is looking to deploy Terahertz Imaging Detection scanners on the street in the war on “illegal guns.”
Kelly said the scanners would be used in “reasonably suspicious circumstances” and intended to cut down on the number of stop-and-frisks on the street. So called stop-and-frisks are considered a violation of the Fourth Amendment.

New York City is largely a Second Amendment free zone. The city’s mayor, Michael Bloomberg, has said that citizens “acting outside of any governmental military effort” should not be allowed to protect themselves with firearms.
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