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CloudWatcher

(2,127 posts)
Sat Jun 21, 2025, 07:09 PM Jun 2025

Stand your ground laws vs. ICE?

How exactly does "stand your ground" rights work when confronted with armed ICE agents with face masks and no uniforms or badges or warrants?

Would an armed immigrant (or US citizen) be correct to assume these guys are thugs kidnapping them and shoot first, ask questions later?

What does the NRA say about this situation?

Far from arresting the most dangerous criminal immigrants, it seems to me that ICE is going after those they know are law-abiding so they don't risk getting shot.

Just asking for a friend.

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Stand your ground laws vs. ICE? (Original Post) CloudWatcher Jun 2025 OP
I've been wondering that too. No warrant, no id, no identified vehicles... Nothing but masked marauders hlthe2b Jun 2025 #1
Dead right OC375 Jun 2025 #2
NRA CloudWatcher Jun 2025 #3
+1. 2, 3 and 4. stopdiggin Jun 2025 #5
Very good question. Thank you republianmushroom Jun 2025 #4

hlthe2b

(114,685 posts)
1. I've been wondering that too. No warrant, no id, no identified vehicles... Nothing but masked marauders
Sat Jun 21, 2025, 07:24 PM
Jun 2025

based on appearance--so how would one know, especially given some of the fake "raids" that have been documented only to rob the place or otherwise create havoc.

Of course DOJ would undoubtedly do their best to fry anyone who shot at one of their thugs so...

CloudWatcher

(2,127 posts)
3. NRA
Sat Jun 21, 2025, 08:41 PM
Jun 2025

Pretty "funny" that we're in the government overreach that the NRA has always claimed as a reason to be armed, and yet they are 100% silent.

I guess they never actually intended that minorities or immigrants be armed.

stopdiggin

(15,639 posts)
5. +1. 2, 3 and 4.
Sat Jun 21, 2025, 08:54 PM
Jun 2025

An absolutely ridiculous premise. The intersection between stand your ground and ICE interdiction is both exceedingly tiny, and spurious. And (unless you're actually LOOKING to get people killed) - please don't suggest that anyone should act upon it.

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