There you have it - the well regulated militia. I meet all the requirement, other than living in Nassau County, but even if I did I would pass. I just don't see the need.

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Nassau County has 2500 county police. Bruce needs his own private squad, for what. Maybe he'll call it the Kyle Rittenhouse Division!

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Your panic is amusing....basically they want volunteer deputies if there is a hurricane. Lots of places have something similar and have had it for years.

Article is behind a paywall, but what you posted seems logic. Why not have trained people on "stand-by" to help in case of an emergency.

From the article;

''Legis. Delia DeRiggi-Whitton (D-Glen Cove), the minority leader, said in a statement: “Nassau County isn’t the Wild West. We already have one of the largest and best trained police forces in the nation.”
She continued: "So the last thing we want during an emergency is a bunch of untrained residents running around with guns, playing junior detective at the behest of the County Executive."

The last thing I want is Bruce's Brownshirt Brigade marching down my street because he thinks there's crime on the NYC subway!

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You need a gun to help people evacuate from a hurricane?

We don't have hurricanes but it seems you need them

https://www.harriscountyso.org/...eauForm?role=Reserve

The motto of the new “special deputies”:

When in danger, when in doubt
Run in circles, scream and shout

https://patch.com/...ife-during-emergency

The FEMA guy in this article above is like, “wtf?”

Everyone knows that having a gun is the thing a person needs to assist in an emergency. Is the river flooding? Get your gun! Fog caused a twenty car pile-up? Get the gun! Bridge collapse? Get that gun! Water supply contaminated? Get two guns! lol

I think your guy Bruce is interesting—he’s like a mini-MAGA movement unto himself. He will create a mini storm of controversy with every executive order that is more stupid than the last. People will peel off their support for his nonsense with each one. At the inevitable end, there will only be a small group of nakedly stupid people huddled around him. lol

Thank you for bringing this to our attention. Apparently the current generations need to re-learn what humans learned before. We are capable of relearning. We will reject this nonsense. It takes effort to point out this bullshit, but it is worth it. Hang in there.

I think (I hate assuming…) but I really think the major difference is that everywhere I have lived that had reserves of some sort never had firearms on their person. They left that to the full time/paid police/sheriff/etc… They handled the other activities like crowd control/traffic control, or large area searches where many people are needed to simply walk through wooded/fields searching for missing persons etc…

I would be curious to hear what others have seen in their local areas. I think Reserve type units are not unpopular, but do they tend to carry firearms?

Given the responses received about firearm requirement to the emergency support crew, might you consider falling back and agree that the pistol ownership and packing heat qualification to this force is beyond need. Local law enforcement and our National Guard Force remain at the ready for said use.

Failing that I would ask you for some specifics to your "lots of places and how "similar".

Why do you need to be a US citizen, or a property or business owner? Why are retired law enforcement preferred?

If you want able bodied, young people with experience doing hard physical things outside in a coordinate fashion in Nassau County you're...not going to get the mob this is clearly written to create.

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I cannot read the article, so I don't know. But the Harris County program is primarily made up of retired LEO and has very strict requirements. If you had an interaction with one of these people, you wouldn't even know unless you understood the difference in uniforms. If that is what this guy is after, so be it. It can be useful. If what he is after is creating an armed "citizens patrol" unit, I don't think anyone wants that. I'll readily admit I'm presuming without much proof that he is promoting the latter. If I'm wrong, I'll take my medicine.

Down in my parts and near the border or Texas and Louisian they have something called the Cajun Navy. Just volunteers out in their boats trying to help folks when the water rises and people are trapped in their home. You can bet most of them are armed as well.

It makes sense to be armed in a major emergency, particulary hurricanes. Looting is a big thing in the aftermath of hurricanes and folks like to protect their property. This makes tons of sense.


If this is the guys personal bodyguard, then that is pretty typical. I recall a member of the Squad from St Louis is embroiled in controversy about paying thousands for private security for herself. ( when she is calling to defund police). Politicians and private security are not new or unusual.

Am I missing something about Nassau County? Or has the LR let me down by not making fun of what seems like an obvious typo?

Sorry that should have been ''No Trans Ban''.

So far, Bruce has 80 applicants for his private security force. For those who think this is a good idea, what do you think would be a good time to put them into action?

I'm sitting here and I can't think of any time that I'd want some ''cop wanna be'' running around my neighborhood looking for trouble that he can stop.

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If nothing else, that list of 80 is a compilation of like-minded individuals who may behave in a similar, potentially violent fashion which is disruptive to legitimate government process, when someone advises Americans to Stop the Steal, protect the womens, stop illegals, etc. The FBI and J6 sleuths will have a head start next time.

I don't think anyone wants a cop wannabe running around...however I'm guessing you didn't Google reserve sheriff deputies. Lots of places in hurricane zones have them

My BIL talked non-stop about being a part of a search & rescue team up in Humboldt county, California. Lots of big talk about all the training he was doing but I doubt he could walk more than 1/2 mile. Barney Fifes are everywhere.

I don't think that's what these types of groups are for. I think they exist more so you can quickly call up a bunch of people for things like search parties when a kid goes missing, or traffic control or assistance to people trying to get out of the way of a major storm, or that sort of thing. You build this kind of "reserve" force, so you don't have to pay them all year round, but you have a group of people you can call on when you've got something big going on and you just need a bunch of bodies to do relatively non-specialized tasks so you can free your actual police force up to continue to do actual policing.

I don't know specifically how Nassau County would use them, but this isn't really a new or unusual idea.

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Nassau County already has auxiliary police;

https://www.pdcnaux.org/

Also, volunteer fire departments, and ambulance corpse. Also Coast Guard Auxillary

Also County and town police.

I think we've got most emergencies covered

I think they'll be ''Bruces Boys''. If you're not doing what Bruce wants, they can come see you with the guns out to let you know that Bruce doesn't like that..

Or, they can come smash up your business or home on Krystallnacht!

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Sounds like you are diving into fantasy land. I would not worry about it.

Just some volunteers trying to be helpful in the time of an emergency. Can never have too many. The Cajun Navy down here does a ton of good. Just good folks helping their neighbors.

What is the Cajun Navy? Inside Louisiana's Cajun Navy Heroes (southernliving.com)

I have heard of the Cajun Navy. I probably saw them on CBS news after one of the severe hurricanes.

But as you see in my post above, we've all ready got all that covered with several overlapping organizations both public and volunteer.

This is something new. And it's the first time that you have to be packin.

My father-in-law lived through Krystallnacht. It was shortly after that that his mother put him and his girlfriend, who were both 14, on the train to Romania. It took them 10 years to get to America.

It seems to me that your team is getting too close to that situation;

''First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.''
—Martin Niemöller

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As I said, you are getting in to fantasy world. No one is coming to take anyone away on trains. Good lord, some people need to get out and take a walk in the sunshine, go spend some time in the ocean, stop conjuring up problems that dont' exist. Volunteerism is a good thing and helps lots of people.

But I guess that is what the internet is for. Crazy conspiracies, lunatic ranting and overhyped angst and stress.

No one is coming after me, I'm an old white guy but;


Trump announces 'largest deportation in American history' if he is reelected

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ks12ctSXwg

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Yea, enforcing the law is not the same thing as you describe. Goalposts are all over the place today.

If you here in the country illegally and committing violent crimes, I hope they come for those folks.

We can sure agree on that!

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So what are you thinking we should do with people in the country legally, and committing violent crimes?

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Well, if it's NYC, they'll just process you and let you go as long as you promise to come back for trial.

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So, if you're gonna commit a violent crime, it's the US citizens that are the bigger problem? Wow, who would have thought?

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Here we go;

https://longisland.news12.com/...-road-rage-shooting1

There are different versions of this story but these two white American 20-somethings wanted to join the Hispanic gang. To prove themselves, they pulled up and shot and killed a young guy getting out of his car after work.

This was right around there corner from me in my quiet, peaceful, suburban town.

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