Or conspiracy charges, if the groups can be infiltrated and intelligence collected shows that there is an actual conspiracy afoot to commit a crime - such as that militia thing that happened in the New England states somewhere a few months ago where there was an actual murder conspiracy.SlickTX wrote:Let's think about it for a minute. What exactly is the "this" that "they" are supposed to do something about. A bunch of guys with similar ethnicity and similar backgrounds getting together in the boonies to shoot at cardboard and trees? I can think of any number of family get togethers, "militia" groups, hunting camp buddies, etc. that would fall into that category. I know I'm stretching here so flame away if you must, but I hope you get my point.Mando'a wrote:It's incredibly sickening, that no one seems to be able to do anything about this.
I wonder how many innocent people will need to be killed, before something is done.
Unfortuneately, law enforcement can only enforce the laws, they can't arrest, or "do something" about a legal activity. This is the American quandry. Our freedoms extend from sea to sea to sea. Those same freedoms don't let the state decide to stop group A from action B unless there is probable cause that a law has been broken.
Now if there was something else they could go after, like unlicensed or unstamed full-auto weapons (the Branch Davidian rationale???) or possession of bomb-making materials, then there would be a "this" that something could be done about.
....at least, I think it was in New England. I might be wrong about that.