Garrett Langley's domicile was broken into.
He decided the current state of security cameras weren't good enough so he decided to integrate license plate reading algos into the cameras.
This is what started the illegal mass deployment of flock cameras nationwide.
Guaranteed, the information gained from each camera crosses state lines where jurisdiction from whatever mayor or commissioners paid off to misuse taxpayer funds; bears no weight.
Also, pretty sure flock cameras are soliciting on our corporate grounds.
Alas,
Garrett, sorry that happened to you, but your company was birthed out of something you could have prevented.
America is not happy with you, Matt, or Paige.
Your Wikipedia page also lies about your inception.
Why?
It's notably different, but not 50 differences. Mostly, you have the blue cities (states) that have fallen to the left. People flee high taxes, fentanyl everywhere, incessant homeless with no effort to fix, lack of security, high crime, etc., etc. That is the left version of politics that many people want to flee from.
Their primary problem is they vote the same way when they get to a better state.
The issue isn’t the overpass. The issue is that in California, for some odd reason, it costs 10x more and takes 10x longer to build than any other state.
I think the biggest thing that gets lost is that you can't really understand the Second Amendment by itself. You have to look at the entire Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
One of the unusual things about the U.S. Constitution is that it's primarily a document telling the federal government what powers it has. The Founders assumed that if a power wasn't granted, the federal government didn't have it. Then the Bill of Rights comes along and says, "And here are some things you are definitely not allowed to do."
Compare these two.
The Canadian Charter basically says:
"Everyone has the following fundamental freedoms..."
The U.S. First Amendment begins:
"Congress shall make no law..."
Notice the difference in emphasis?
The Charter gives you certain rights. The bill of rights says the government can't take them away.
The First Amendment is written as a restriction on government power. It doesn't say, "Americans may speak freely." It says, in effect, "Congress, you don't get to stop them."
The Second Amendment follows that same pattern:
"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
Whether people agree on every detail of that sentence is a debate that's been going on for centuries, but the structure is consistent with the rest of the Bill of Rights.
It's not written as, "Citizens are hereby granted permission to own guns." It's written as, "The government shall not infringe the right of the people."
The militia clause gets most of the attention today, but notice that the actual operative language refers to "the right of the people." the same phrase used elsewhere in the Bill of Rights.
Whether you agree with the amendment or not, it's easier to understand if you read it the same way you'd read the First Amendment: as a limit on what the federal government is allowed to do, not as a list of permissions granted by the government.
That's also why there are amendments that seem oddly specific today, like the Third Amendment's prohibition on quartering soldiers in private homes. That wasn't random, it addressed an abuse the Founders had actually experienced and wanted to make sure the new federal government could never repeat.
Whether you ultimately agree with the Second Amendment or not, I think it makes much more sense once you realize the Bill of Rights is mostly written in the voice of, "Government, here are the lines you may not cross."
As to WHY the second amendment exists? There are lots of philosophical reasons as to why it exists, and why it's good, but the fact is, the revolutionary war started when King George told the military governor of Boston to seize colonial guns and gunpower at Concord.
Much like a specific practice inspired the 3rd amendment, this directly inspired the 2nd amendment.
Understand something: Your vehicle's ability to identify the current speed limit on the road you're driving is one line of code away from preventing you from exceeding it.
I would pay an absurd amount of money to watch a European explain to their ancestors that, in exchange for about 19 hours of the cheapest labor allowed, they could own a magic box that keeps their house cool all summer forever!
But they don’t want one because “it’s not really necessary.” As tens of thousands of their elderly die from the heat.
@japan_nobunaga The 2nd Amendment exists for two primary reasons: It ensures that potentially every American citizen in good standing is able to fight off an enemy on American soil, should the need arise, and it is the ultimate check against a tyrannical government.
@japan_nobunaga The 2nd Amendment is designed to arm the citizenry to the point where they will always be able to defend themselves from a tyrannical government.