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struggle4progress

(118,228 posts)
Thu Sep 2, 2021, 11:32 PM Sep 2021

Hey! Let's deputize citizens to go after folk nurturing a pandemic!

Surely it's illegal to spread a deadly communicable disease

And surely it's illegal to deprive people of needed medical care by deliberately clogging up the public health system

Just copy mechanisms wholesale from the Texas law, but redirect against the anti-maskers and the quacks, people who refuse to quarantine, and those who aid and abet them

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Hey! Let's deputize citizens to go after folk nurturing a pandemic! (Original Post) struggle4progress Sep 2021 OP
We need to go after the willfully unvaccinated. roamer65 Sep 2021 #1
Better idea. TomSlick Sep 2021 #2
How about 'Dollars For Insurrectionists' C_U_L8R Sep 2021 #3

TomSlick

(11,088 posts)
2. Better idea.
Fri Sep 3, 2021, 12:23 AM
Sep 2021

Some appropriately liberal state should pass a law outlawing hand guns, semi-automatic weapons, high volume magazines - take your pick - BUT leave enforcement to private citizens through civil lawsuits with a statutory judgment amount and attorney's fees.

If Texas can side-step one constitutionally protected right, there is nothing to say New York cannot side-step another, other than SCOTUS didn't really mean what it said.

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