Figures this would be on NPR...a sheriff wanting people to " volunteer" to have their home search??

[bolus]

I would think this was a joke if I didn't already know there are people gullible enough, who just love the thought of giving themselves over to the government. Instead, it's just a sad reflection on the direction this country is going. Patriotism, liberty, freedom, all seem to be ideas that are fading into memory for the generic masses.

Just like sending a letter to criminals that they won a boat and just have to pick it up at the police station.

 

[Dave Workman]

A local sheriff wanting to search home for guns and people to volunteer for such search ??

http://www.wpr.org/beloit-police-ask-residents-volunteer-have-their-homes-searched-guns

It's the police chief, not the sheriff.

 

[bolus]

What part of pro gun are you ????????????

Imagine if someone put a bullet ant in a nerf gun. Bullet ant stings are the worst pain imaginable. If someone used a toy gun to weaponize bullet ants that would be a serious threat. I can definitely see the need for the sheriff to search our homes for bullet ants and nerf guns.

 

[BlindedByScience]

Tyranny: Nobody said it wasn't polite and sneaky.

Most often, when the government wants to take rights away from you, they're going to try to do so in the name of 'safety'. Well, my gosh, you're not against 'safety', are you....??

That or, '...it's for the children....'. Both sound noble, but are equally insidious.

 

[Sgt Nambu]

Just like sending a letter to criminals that they won a boat and just have to pick it up at the police station.

I think you're on to something here, bolus! We are the new criminals!

 

[jbett98]

TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED
The 1950's, 60's and 70's


First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us.

They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes.

Then after that trauma, our baby cribs were covered with bright colored lead-based paints.

We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.

As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.

Riding in the back of a pick up on a warm day was always a special treat.

We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.

We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.

We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank soda pop with sugar in it, but we weren't overweight because WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!

We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.

No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.

We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.

We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on cable, no video tape movies, no surround sound, no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms..........WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!

We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.

We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.

We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, made up games with sticks and tennis balls and although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes.

We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just walked in and talked to them!

Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!

This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!

The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.

We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL!

You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated our lives for our own good.

And while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave their parents were.

Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?!

 

[pdrake]

Gosh, this is hilarious. I can't add more than the previous posters have already said. I always suspected that we lived in a crazy world, but this is concrete evidence that everything is officially upside down.

 

[U8395279]

This distant relative of mine is really making our family name look really bad.

As Chief of Police, he is asking the citizens of his town to volunteer to allow Police to search their homes for guns. He is hoping that townsfolk will comply with this request.

There is so much wrong in what he is doing here, that I simply do not know where to begin. I don't understand why he is comparing guns to Ebola. I can only assume that he is trying to frighten people.


http://benswann.com/wisconsin-polic...to-volunteer-to-have-homes-searched-for-guns/

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[The Heretic]

I usually ascribe such actions with stupidity, but I have to think in this case the chief has an agenda.

 

[U201491]

TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED
The 1950's, 60's and 70's


First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us.

They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes.

Then after that trauma, our baby cribs were covered with bright colored lead-based paints.

We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.

As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.

Riding in the back of a pick up on a warm day was always a special treat.

We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.

We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.

We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank soda pop with sugar in it, but we weren't overweight because WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!

We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.

No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.

We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.

We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on cable, no video tape movies, no surround sound, no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms..........WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!

We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.

We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.

We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, made up games with sticks and tennis balls and although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes.

We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just walked in and talked to them!

Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!

This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!

The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.

We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL!

You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated our lives for our own good.

And while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave their parents were.

Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?!

That says more than anything about what we were and very much a far cry from the nanny state of today.
They have created a nation of wimps and frilly dillys.
That was the enemy's plan from the 60's.

 

[U201491]

Just another Mental defect....................

 

[SOrez]

Gol dang it, all he wants to do is protect and serve.

 

[clearconscience]

He should hand in his resignation immediately.

He obviously knows nothing of law or the constitution he swore to uphold.
Maybe he should let the citizens search his house, computers, and financial records to make sure as a public servant he is following the law himself

 

[Dave Workman]

BREAKING: Beloit police withdraws chief's offer of home searches for guns

The Beloit, Wisconsin Police Department today withdrew an offer made by Chief Norm Jacobs to have officers search homes for firearms after publicity over the proposal created a public outcry.


<broken link removed>

 

[Stomper]

If he was asking for volunteers to break their foot off in his a$$, I would be all over it!

 

[jbett98]

Sorry, there's no room for a foot, his head is already up there.

 

[Stomper]

Then he can open his mouth, remove his foot and insert mine.

 

[balaperdida]

TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED
The 1950's, 60's and 70's

<snip>We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays<snip>

Early 50's NE Oregon: Walked, or rode my bike, around town with a REAL .22 rifle.

 

[semperfi68to70]

I think the sheriff was referring to toy guns that some kid has removed the orange tip off the end of the barrel.
They could then confiscate the altered weapon and then they could all gather around and sing a few stanzas of kumbaya

Ja, or maybe Deutschland erwache!

 

[Partsproduction]

I would think this was a joke if I didn't already know there are people gullible enough

Yep, people who voted for Mr. Obama.

I wonder how it would go over if a large group of citizens asked the police to let them install cameras and tape recorders in their squad rooms to catch "Bad cops". Good for the goose,,