PA - Pittsburgh - gun control

[Old Fashioned]

Pittsburgh city council considering bill that would allow police to cite people for carrying a variety of items from rotten eggs to 37 different types of firearms if police PERCEIVE an intent to defy thier orders. First saw this on NRA-ILA. Seems that it is becoming more and more common for politicians to decide that for security reasons it is ok to suspend constitutional rights. Link is direct to newspaper article.

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09241/994100-482.stm

[Rick McC.]

Looks like the lawyers'll have work for some time!

Take care,

Rick

[Aguila Blanca]

Perhaps there should be some legislation that automatically removes from office any politician if even one of his/her constituents perceives an intent to ignore the Constitution.

Strikes me that such language is illegal and unconstitutional. You can't charge someone with intent not to do something. How could a police officer possibly decide that a person intends to disobey an order? And what about if the order itself is an unlawful order? Heck, the Uniform Code of Military Justice says that our armed forces have an affirmative duty to not obey an unlawful order.