Harassed on the way to the nats?

rednesss said

Based upon what?? That is entirely the problem here, he shouldn't have been charged with squat. He was plinking away at a target on his own property, against an adequate backstop, minding his own business, before the Gestapo was called by some busy-body neighbor and Roid-rage Roy charges in weapons drawn looking to put a notch on his belt.

"Law enforcement" is the problem. I grew up in an era where there were "peace officers" and we were much, much better off as a society before the militarization of the police happened and every podunk town with one stop light needed an APC and a frackin' SWAT team to serve parking ticket warrants against grandma.

The only way to stop this is to defund them. Starve the beast.

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I didn't see any evidence of an adequate backstop, I may have missed it on the videos. If I recall correctly, he said he has 2 acres of property. Considering the fact that a .22 caliber round can travel a mile (unobstructed) 2 acres of property isn't a whole lot of land to fire a rifle upon. Not saying he didn't have an adequate backstop, but I didn't see any supporting evidence of one in the videos.
Mind you, I said "charged with", not "convicted of". It may have been a difference of opinion between what Hart thought was adequate and what an objective bystander would think was adequate, in terms of the backstop. That's why you have an independent trier of the facts (the local judge) to examine and rule on the facts.
I'd suggest you examine the language you're using to make this argument that all police are bad. "the Gestapo was called by some busy-body neighbor and Roid-rage Roy charges in weapons drawn looking to put a notch on his belt" and "every podunk town with one stop light needed an APC and a frackin' SWAT team to serve parking ticket warrants against grandma" aren't helpful. Have you been arrested? If so, what was your experience? And I mean physically arrested, not issued a traffic citation.
For you to have such a biased, ill-informed opinion of people you've never met indicates some major problem you've had somewhere along the line.
No?