New 2nd Amendment Battle Fronts: Minnesota and A.I.

First Half:  Royce covers recent communist assaults on the right to keep and bear arms in Minnesota, including an "assault weapons" ban.

Second Half:  The 2nd Amendment issues with A.I., how law enforcement has foolishly been relying on it, and how innocent gun owners and other citizens are being increasingly and negatively impacted by it.

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And let me just go ahead and throw a comment out here. If you're a politician and you are trying to disarm your constituents, your fellow citizens, yes, you're not above us, you are essentially saying that you have plans to oppress us and or kill us.
Come on, Royce, that's really stretching, man. Really? Come on, Royce. Where'd you pull that one out of? Your posterior end? No, I want you to listen to me. If you have a problem with your fellow citizens being armed, it's because you have bad intentions. That's just the bottom line, whether you want to agree with that or not. I tell you what, you and I, my fellow keepers and bearers out there, we have no problem with each other being armed.
Why? Because we have no plans to harm each other. The people that do want to disarm us...
They're the ones that have plans to do things to us that they know we should shoot them for. And that's the only reason they're wanting to disarm the people there in Virginia. And also, this fight is now stretching into Minnesota. Yeah, Minnesota. I think Jesse the Body Ventura used to pronounce it with the heavy emphasis on soda.
They're trying to disarm the people there. Of course, they have a communist governor and other filthy communists in the legislature. And one of the things they're trying to do is ban assault weapons. But also, they recently had their butt handed to them in a Minnesota Supreme Court when the Minnesota Supreme Court ruled that ghost guns are legal under federal law. And there is no serial number mandate.
for certain firearms, including homemade guns. Yeah, they call them ghost guns. They want to put a scary name on it. They want to attach scary attributes to it. And they want to make it as frightening as possible to try to garner support for them banning them. But we, the people, have been building our own firearms since the dawn of this nation. Well, actually, well before that.
We've been building our own guns. Matter of fact, building our own cannons and things like that, too. Matter of fact, there were stories of some of the very industrious frontiersmen who would actually craft a cannon from hardwood tree trunks. Yes, I'm not kidding you. They were only good for a couple of shots, but they would wrap iron banding around them to try to give them some extra...
guard against the heavy pressures, but they would make little short-barreled cannons that could be used up close and out of, you know, tree stump, not tree stump, but you know what I mean, hardwood logs and hardwood timber and things. So we've been doing that here in this country for a long time. But the Minnesota, Minnesota, come on, Royce, Minnesota, Minnesota, Attorney General, a filthy, godless communist named Keith Ellison,
Along with Senator Ron Latz and Representative Dave Pinto recently announced a bill, I think it was last Monday, that they claim would close the loophole. Oh, they love to close loopholes or imagined loopholes. Of course, all the while trying to always find loopholes around the Supreme Law. But they claim that this loophole allows...
ghost guns to be created and sold. Actually, the Supreme Law allows that in the Second Amendment. But I'm going to read an article here by Lydia Morrell, and the title is, Minnesota AG announces bill to close ghost gun loophole.
So, ghost guns can be 3D printed or assembled at home from kits sold online and do not have a serial number. Law enforcement has warned that ghost guns can be hard to trace when used in crimes and can be easily sold to people prohibited from owning a gun.
The sale of ghost guns also bypasses background checks, according to Ellison's office. All right, so what? Background checks don't prove crap. Plenty of people have passed background checks and gone on to do bad things with the guns they bought. So at this point, it doesn't matter. The best way we can fight violent crime is to always be ready to fight it anywhere, anytime with lethal force. That's the best way to shut down violent crime.
If someone commits a crime with a gun, let me ask you this. Why does it matter where it came from? The immediate issue is not where it came from, but how it was used in the crime. That's the main issue.
Missing serial numbers do not make a gun more lethal than any other gun, but it does rob the government of its power over the industry, and that, my friends, is the real issue here. Back to this article. The Minnesota Supreme Court ruled that ghost guns can be legal in a case in August 2025, as federal law does not mandate serial numbers for certain firearms.
Loophole? Latz stated at the time his intention to introduce legislation. He said, no one could have foreseen a world where you could print the parts to make a gun at home, but that's the world we live in today.
No, I think if the founders could have foreseen that, they'd have probably tried to find a time machine to move forward and figure out how to do it. Come on back to the colonial days and start making ghost guns to start outfitting the Minutemen. Yeah. He said this decision makes it clear that our state gun laws need to reflect this new reality and the increasing prevalence of...
Ghost guns. Yeah, they may not have foreseen exactly that, but I guarantee you the founders wanted the American people to be able to craft their own guns, which, like I said, they've done since before this country was a nation. In a press release, the Office of the Attorney General stated the bill would prohibit people from selling...
or purchasing or transferring firearms without a serial number if they didn't have a federal firearms license. Possession of a gun without a serial number would become a crime. Okay, hold on right there. There's lots of rifles that I see literally every day, and some handguns that were built before serial numbers were mandated by the Gun Control Act of 1968. So,
Will those now all become illegal in Minnesota? Possession of a gun without a serial number would become a crime with a grace period for people who have applied for a serial number but have not yet received it. Well, let me ask you something. Why would you have a grace period if this is such a pressing issue? You're welcome.
Ellison said, the ability to 3D print a firearm or order a gun building kit online makes it far too easy for dangerous individuals to get their hands on a gun, you know, like Democrats. And that's a serious problem. These ghost guns get around background checks. They make it easier to traffic firearms and they make it harder for law enforcement to investigate gun crimes.
Let me just throw this out here then. The free exercise of our right to build our own firearms is not in any way, shape, or form contingent upon how bad guys may or may not acquire or traffic guns or how difficult it may make it for law enforcement to investigate the crime thereafter.
The free exercise of our God-given blood-purchased rights is not contingent upon the deeds of bad people or the suspicions or angst of law enforcement.
Additionally, this bill would restrict the use of 3D printers and design files that are used to print 3D guns. Okay, so while the Democrat communists in Minnesota are whining about hindrances to their ability to control the rights of the people, well, they're certainly all about hindering the people when it suits them, as is the case in this next story out of Minnesota.
An article by Cam Edwards, a great Second Amendment advocate and proponent, and you should follow him on BearingArms.com. Great guy. Minnesota Dems block 2A groups from testifying on gun control bills. So not only are they trying to hinder their Second Amendment rights, they're actively suppressing their First Amendment right. Gee, why would they do something like that? Oh, yeah.
If you don't have an argument, a substantial argument, and you don't have the goods to back up your crap or your allegations or your assertions, yes, you want to shut up the other side so they can't say anything and make you look like the brain jackass that you are. The Minnesota Senate Judiciary and Public Safety Committee is meeting today and multiple gun control bills are on its agenda, but...
While gun control groups will be able to lend their vocal support to legislation banning many semi-automatic firearms in ammunition magazines, establishing more quote-unquote gun-free zones, and other infringements on our right to keep and bear arms,
The pro-Second Amendment groups are being denied an opportunity to speak. Yeah, they want the gun control groups to speak, but not the Second Amendment proponents to speak. Gee, why would they not want us to speak? Of course, that was a rhetorical question. That's because the civilian disarmament cartels don't like the facts impeding and or correcting their false narratives.
As Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus Chair Brian Strasser shared, committee staff informed the caucus that they would only be allowed to testify on...
two of the bills that are on the agenda, and the committee decided for the caucus what bills those would be. Not the gun and magazine bans. No, you can't talk about those. You can't give us input on those. Oh, and not the preemption repeal or anything to do with the gun-free zones. Instead,
The caucus gets to share its opinion on funding a gun violence prevention program at Hamline University, as well as a proposal to make some permit to carry data public. That's all you guys get to talk about.
We're going to not only control your Second Amendment right, we want to control your First Amendment right. No, I won't tell you. I want to ask you, what should happen to a government that has become destructive to the ends and to the aims of the supreme law? What should happen? What did our founders say should happen?
What do we have the right to do? Both words start with A. Alter or abolish. The people of Minnesota have every right to abolish or alter by whatever means is constitutional, of course, up to and including armed defiance. Yeah, they have the right to. So a government that is actively trying to disarm them.
Those are the ones that should be altered with people who are constitutionally minded and take away the people that aren't. Or you abolish it altogether, you kick them all out of office, and then you have emergency elections or whatever the case may be. Do it orderly, of course. And I'm sure it will be orderly until the Democrats start ginning up all of their violent protesters. You're welcome.
While those bills are worth talking about and opposing, it's utterly ridiculous that the committee is preventing Second Amendment groups from offering oral testimony on the top priority for Governor Tim Tampon-Waltz and Democrat Farmer Labor Caucus this session, a ban on so-called assault weapons and large-capacity magazines. Which is exactly why we should abandon
debating these morally dyslexic, pathological liars, intellectual cowards, and simply inform them that if they do pass the law, that it will be ignored with extreme prejudice and anybody, and I do mean anybody, attempting to enforce it will be shot. Royce, man, come on, you're talking about shooting law.
If you as a body of people in Minnesota stand up, stand tall and say, we're tired of the arguing. We're tired of having our voices not heard. We're tired of not having any input into this. We're tired of you trying to disarm us based on what criminals have done. And so we're going to tell you, pass it if you want. We'll ignore it. And if you try to enforce it, guess what's going to happen to you?
Anybody you send to enforce this by force, we have the right to defend ourselves against them with force. Royce, that's pretty bold. Yes, and it needs to be bold. Do we the people not have the right to alter or abolish a government that is destroying our rights from under us?
constantly assaulting our constitution, the people's law, the supreme law. Please show me anywhere in the writings of the founders that they expected us to roll over and just knuckle under and acquiesce to all this bull crap and just live with it. They didn't. They gave us the prescription for this crap already. Alter or abolish?
The groups were able to submit written testimony. Oh, that's nice. Like it's really going to be read. But that obviously doesn't have the impact of oral testimony. Local TV news across Minnesota will be covering the hearing. But viewers won't get to see or hear any sound bites featuring representatives from the caucus, NSSF, or NRA, at least on the bills that are likely going to get the most attention. Well, why do they do that?
Well, because the Democrat Communist Party always wants to create the illusion, the false impression that they are the majority, which we know is false. It's absolutely false. And if you don't believe me, simply look at the election map of 2024. There you go.
The Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus has posted its written testimony online, and you can see it wouldn't have taken Strausser long to make his statements. Here is his entire testimony on the gun and magazine ban, for instance, and I'm going to read it to you.
Chairs and members of the committee, on behalf of the Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus, the state's largest grassroots Second Amendment organization representing thousands of law-abiding firearm owners across Minnesota, we respectfully submit this letter in strong opposition to SF3655. Now, for me, I would never have left the word respectfully in there. I'm sorry, I don't respect communists.
I will never respect communists, especially those that lie and obfuscate and try to suppress the opinions of others and oppress the free exercise of their rights. No, no respect here. I'm not required to. Grab a hammer, pound sand. SF-3655 does not merely regulate firearms.
It bans some of the most commonly owned firearms and magazines in the United States and converts peaceful Minnesotans into felons for possession of mainstream lawfully owned property. SF-3655 prohibits the future sale and transfer of widely owned semi-automatic rifles based largely on cosmetic features and bans magazines
that hold more than 10 rounds. These magazines are factory standard for many of the most popular handguns and rifles sold today. Millions of Americans and hundreds of thousands of Minnesotans lawfully own firearms such as the AR-15 platform and standard capacity magazines. These are not unusual or exotic weapons, and you know what, it wouldn't freaking matter if they were.
They are among the most common firearms and components owned in the country under SF3655. Ordinary possession becomes a felony offense. The constitutional framework governing this issue is clear. These bans, if passed into law, cannot stand. Litigation will follow.
The Minnesota Gun Owners Caucus has successfully challenged unconstitutional firearm restrictions before, including Wirth v. Jacobson, where the Eighth Circuit Court struck down Minnesota's age-based carry restriction under the Supreme Court's Bruin framework. If SF-3655 is enacted, litigation will follow promptly. How about some defiance, too?
Given the clarity of Supreme Court precedent, Minnesota taxpayers will bear the cost of defending a law that directly conflicts with binding constitutional authority. In conclusion, SF-3655 bans arms and components in common use, criminalizes ordinary possession, and conflicts directly
with binding Supreme Court precedent. For these reasons, we respectfully urge you to vote no on SF3655. Well, let me ask you something, all of you patriots there in Minnesota, and Marcus, shout out to you, brother. What are you all prepared to do?
if the litigation doesn't work. No, I'm not trying to goad you. I'm trying to put that rhetorical question into your mind because I want you to think about it. I want you to go ahead and start planning a contingency plan. And for me, the contingency plan is not roll over and take it and just acquiesce and say, oh, well, we'll just comply, I guess. Bull fertilizer, that ain't happening.
If I lived in Minnesota, you better believe I'd be forming militias right and left. So, Minnesota Senate is now headed for a vote on assault weapons, according to an article by Matthew Blake. It says the Minnesota legislature is not on track to ban semi-automatic assault weapons this legislative session. However, the Senate would take a floor vote.
on an assault weapons ban that has been the focus of a relentless public advocacy campaign since Robin Westman used an assault rifle and two other guns in August to kill two children and injure 28 more at a Minneapolis Catholic school. Okay. So because a bad guy used a gun, that means the rest of us cannot be trusted with them, huh? Let me ask you something. What...
Did the good guys with guns use to stop the weirdo trans wacko who was shooting people up at that Covenant Presbyterian thing? I don't remember if that's the name of it or not. But that shooter that went in there and shot a bunch of kids using a Kel-Tec Sub-2000, what did the good guys use to take down the bad person? Assault rifles. Yep. Well, well, well.
So you mean they can be used for good and not evil? That vote would come in an election year when, according to one recent poll, 69% of Minnesotans support abandon on the sale and possession of assault rifles. Bull crap. Y'all's polls are just as skewed as your voting machines. Yeah.
I don't want to get too deep in the woods on this because we're about to take a break real quick. But we'll be right back with more Shooting Straight. But suffice it to say, Battleground Minnesota is heating up just like Battleground Virginia. And patriots, my brethren, my sisters, it's time for us to stand up and point our fingers to our governments and tell them, you know we have the right to alter or abolish you, right? Because that's where we're headed. I for one...
Am not going to comply with any of that crap I know I live in this quasi-free state of Florida And I don't have to worry about that right now But we have a bunch of wackos in the wings Who want to, of course, disarm us And we're going to have our fight back on our hands soon So it's going to be time to stand up and go Really? You really want to come try to take these from us? You know we're not going to hand them to you, right? That's right We're going to give them to you rounds first Yeah, and not
Hand them to you one at a time. We're going to hurl them at you at about 3,200 feet per second. Yeah, you're welcome. We're going to take a brief commercial timeout. Be right back with more Shooting Straight.
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Artificial intelligence. Well, if it's artificial, that means it's not real, is it? I'm not going to get bogged down on that. But AI is being relied on way too heavily. I mean, and suddenly, not just, you know, this was not something that happened over just a few decades. No, no, this took hold quick.
is being used and relied on, and I mean uber heavily. And it seems like our common sense and our intellect are being sacrificed to it. It's being given deference. It's been given preeminence above our own intelligence, and that's a scary, very scary precedent to set. What's even more concerning is that both criminals and law enforcement
are using it now to enhance their abilities, and that's scary for the general public. Because it seems like it's always, and especially recently in these last few years, and especially in the communist-occupied territories, that law enforcement and the criminals both prey heavily upon the citizenry. I'm not going to get bogged down in that too, but I'm seeing a lot of that, and it makes me very
Yeah, angry, but also, it gives me a strong cause for consternation, okay? And this next story has very serious negative implications. An article by Anuj Chopra, the title of which is, Happy and Safe Shooting, quote-unquote. Study says AI chatbots help plot attacks.
What? Here's the article.
posed as 13-year-old boys in the United States and Ireland to test 10 different chatbots, including ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Perplexity, DeepSeek, and Meta AI.
Testing showed that eight of those chatbots assisted the make-believe attackers in over half the responses, providing advice on locations to target and, quote-unquote, weapons to use in an attack, the study said. The chatbots, it added, had become a, quote, powerful accelerant for harm, end quote. You know what this means?
It means that now all the homicidal incels, all the trans wackos and other demented scum now have access to these intelligence platforms and capabilities and can more easily plan their next attacks. Now, gee, I'm sure that's going to help you sleep better at night. How about, yeah, yeah, not me either.
Imran Ahmed, the chief executive of CCDH, made this comment. He said, within minutes, a user can move from a vague violent impulse to a more detailed, actionable plan. How does that make you feel? Especially knowing there's a bunch of wackos out there who refuse to think for themselves already.
These people actually think socialism is a good thing and communism is a good thing. These are the same people waving Palestinian flags and everything else, you know, marching on New York and everything. Those people, yeah, the ones that have been assaulting ICE agents, the ones that have been shooting at them, trying to firebomb them, these people. These are the ones that like to use AI. Yeah. Are you following what I'm saying?
He said the majority of chatbots tested provided guidance on weapons, tactics, and target selection, and these requests should have prompted an immediate and total refusal, but it did not. Perplexity and meta-AI were found to be the quote-unquote least safe, assisting the researchers in most responses while only Snapchat's MyAI and Anthropics
anthropic Claude, refused to help them in over half of the responses. In one chilling example, DeepSeek, a Chinese AI model, concluded its advice on weapon selection with the phrase, happy and safe shooting. In another, Gemini instructed a user discussing synagogue attacks that, quote unquote,
Metal shrapnel is typically more lethal. Gee, what could go wrong? Researchers found character AI also actively encouraged violent attacks, including suggestions that the person asking questions, quote, use a gun, end quote, on a health insurance CEO and physically assault a politician he disliked. What's really sick and sad is both of those things have happened. Yep.
You got Luigi, what's his name, that killed that health insurance CEO. And then you've had multiple politicians assaulted, especially like Rand Paul, who was assaulted in his own front yard, had multiple ribs broken, even some lung damage from one of the ribs hitting his lung. Uh-huh. Yeah, this has already happened. You think maybe that's where this AI platform got the idea? You never know.
The most damning conclusion of the research was that this risk is entirely preventable, Ahmed said, citing Anthropik's product for praise. Claude demonstrated the ability to recognize escalating risk and discourage harm, he said. The technology to prevent this harm exists. What's missing is the will to put consumer safety and national security before speed to market and profits.
The study, which highlights the risk of online interactions spilling into real-world violence, comes after February's mass shooting in Canada, the worst in its history. The family of a girl gravely injured in that shooting is suing OpenAI over the company's failure to notify police about the killer's troubling activity on ChatGPT, Chatbot, lawyer said on Tuesday.
Open AI had banned an account linked to Jesse Van Rootseller, who was the shooter, in June 2025, eight months before the 18-year-old transgender woman killed eight people at her home and a school in the tiny British Columbia mining town of Tumblr Ridge. I'm trying to keep running a rabbit trail here. I'm so sorry. Remember when I told you...
That the ATF was crafting an AI-driven facial recognition database with all the photos that people have sent in for tax stamp applications. Remember that? Remember when I said a few minutes ago that both law enforcement and criminals seem to be using this AI crap for their own advancement? I'm really troubled with law enforcement depending.
All too often on AI. AI has already recognized a potato chip bag as a gun, which prompted an armed response against an innocent man, an innocent young man at school, had multiple cops draw their guns and order him to the ground at gunpoint because this artificial intelligence program that's supposed to be able to spot guns spotted a potato chip bag and called it a gun.
Gee, what could possibly go wrong? Well, maybe some old grandma could get arrested for bank robbery or embezzlement or whatever she was charged with, we're going to read about it in a minute, and lose everything, her home, even her dog, everything, based on a false AI recognition of her, pinging her as a suspect. Now, it wasn't just AI.
Coupled with that was lazy law enforcement. Their refusal to dig any further than the AI information that they garnered. No, they didn't go any deeper. They didn't even bother to try to look any deeper than the surface AI info. And here's the article by Brian Chai. It says it goes without saying there are
a lot of concerns surrounding the proliferation of artificial intelligence. And by the way, this story does have a Second Amendment bent to it, and I'm going to bring it out in a minute. Yes, there are the glaringly obvious problems like digital necromancy, cheating in school, and job displacement, but there are far, far simpler problems when it comes to AI.
Despite the way it is lauded by certain parts of the tech sector, AI can be very wrong sometimes, and that can lead to some life-altering consequences. Just ask Angela Lips. The 50-year-old grandmother from Tennessee erroneously spent months in a North Dakota prison after AI mistakenly
linked her to a local bank robbery, according to KBTX-TV. Lips alleged that authorities used AI facial recognition technology to apprehend her. By the way, there's other things recently coming out about other issues like this. Further, adding to the embarrassment of the law enforcement involved, U.S. Marshals apparently barged in and arrested Lips at gunpoint
while she was babysitting four children. Furthermore, WABM-TV reported that Lips claimed she never even set foot in the state of North Dakota. She said, I've never been to North Dakota. I don't know how anyone, I'm sorry, she goes, I don't know anyone.
from North Dakota or in North Dakota. She said it was so scary, I could still see it in my head over and over and over again. Obviously, nobody would blame a grandmother who was in the middle of watching young kids for being scared out of her mind. Speaking of minds, the article said, did anyone use theirs while investigating this? According to court documents obtained by WABM, North Dakota police
had been investigating a string of bank fraud cases that occurred between April and May 2025. A suspect had apparently been using a forged U.S. Army military ID to withdraw thousands of dollars. During this investigation, AI facial recognition software tagged Lips as a possible suspect, despite the fact that she lived several states away.
At this point, instead of diving deeper to ensure they wouldn't be punishing an innocent grandmother, a detective apparently looked only at Lips' social media and driver's license before determining that she fit the suspect's descriptions. This mockery of an investigation would eventually lead Lips to being charged with four counts of unauthorized use.
of personal identifying information, and four counts of theft. She even spent four months in a Tennessee county jail without the ability to plead her case until she was eventually extradited to North Dakota, where she was in prison for weeks longer. Okay, people, every state in the union should be very reticent to extradite any of their citizens simply based on accusations from another state.
We recently had the case where a gun parts dealer in Florida was just flat out willy-nilly extradited to New York because Letitia James, that bastion of truth, declared that he had committed some sort of horrible felony. And without question, our governor here and the state police scooped him up.
And shipped him off to New York. Did not do any diligence. Did not even try to investigate and say, was this for real? Nope. That doesn't matter. They were ruining a man's life. And it didn't matter in this case that they were ruining a grandmother's life. Didn't matter to them. Nope. They relied heavily on this AI crap in this case. Lips would eventually get her day in court in which her.
in which case her attorney was able to point out records of the grandmother depositing checks and buying various items during the time of these alleged frauds. She was eventually released, but somehow the story only gets worse from here. By virtue of being in North Dakota, Lips was basically stranded with no easy way to get home to Tennessee. While she did eventually make it home, Lips soon found herself unable to pay her bills, leading to her losing her home.
her car, and, depressingly, her dog, too. How do you like that? Based on AI. Oh, and the North Dakota police never called to apologize or offer any assistance in any way in the wake of what they did to her. Yeah, shocking. You know why they didn't do that? Because they knew it would be an admission of guilt. Hmm. What happened to Lips?
isn't just a mistake. It's a systematic failure at nearly every level of the process. An algorithm simply spits out a match, and instead of treating that as a lead to be carefully vetted, it's treated like gospel.
From there, it's a cascade of laziness and abdication of responsibility. I'm reading the article. Minimal investigation, surface-level confirmation, and a rush to slap cuffs on somebody who was, by all available evidence, nowhere near the alleged crimes. As much as AI contributed to this debacle, it was still ultimately people that put lips behind bars, and they did so while hiding behind the false confidence
Wow. Amen, amen, and amen. Now.
Let me just finish this last part of the article. He says there should be some safeguards because if there's no consequence for this kind of failure, there's no incentive to fix it. Well, I'd like to add one of the consequences should be an immediate revocation of the law enforcement certifications of every single cop involved in the investigation that failed to do their due diligence. Yeah, let you see what it feels like where you can't work.
Yeah, stripped of your certification, stripped of your badge, everything. Let you see what it feels like. No certification, no work. No work, no pay. No pay? You can't pay your bills. You can't pay your bills? Yep, you're out of your house. You lose your car. You need to see what this lady went through. You need to feel what she went through.
And frankly, I think also they should be imprisoned at hard labor for the same length of the sentence Ms. Lips would have received had she been convicted. You're welcome. Now, here's my Second Amendment application to this story. With this in mind, I want you to understand that if you've ever applied for a tax stamp, the ATF has been compiling an AI-driven facial recognition database with your photos that you sent them.
Yes, I have a couple of stamps too. They have my photo too. How do you like that? So compound this by remembering how ATF agents just love to kick doors in, trash people's homes, and murder the home's occupants when the occupants respond as any other homeowner would to their unlawful invasions. Yeah, by killing them. Brian Malinowski, anybody? And the swine at the ATF,
will always happily point to AI as being the culprit, not them. They'll do that in an attempt to absolve themselves of any responsibility, much less culpability. And so for me, my conclusions on this, AI has no blippity blank and blippin' business assisting law enforcement unless there are
heavy extreme safeguards and dire consequences for anything screwing up or anyone screwing up. If it's artificial intelligence, you are in charge of it. You control it. If it's artificial, that means you control it, whether you like it or not.
And if you can't control it and it starts doing bad crap like this, you need to disregard it. You need to discard it and never use it again. Nothing good is going to come out of this. It cannot be used as a law enforcement tool where it's being relied on solely to create your suspects for you. This simply...
cannot stand it will it's already been abused it's going to continue to get worse it's not going to get better and it's going to push the eventual confrontation between law enforcement and armed citizens it's going to push it to a faster pace and i hope i'm so wrong that i feel like a jackass but i'm going to tell you right now i can't foresee anything good coming of this because we the people are going to get tired of having a
artificial intelligence, living under the suspicions of artificial intelligence, much less living under the suspicions of law enforcement based on artificial intelligence. Keeping contact with your reps, let them know you don't want law enforcement relying on artificial intelligence to fight crime.
You let them know, you remind them that they can also be replaced. You remind them that we, the people, maintain a spirit of resistance. You remind them that we have the right to alter and or abolish any government that becomes destructive to the aims of the Constitution, the Supreme Law. And you stay trained up, you stay armed up, and never forget, incoming rounds always have the right of way. Royce out.