A deadly shooting in Minneapolis at the hands of a federal immigration officer comes weeks after a bombshell report on President Donald Trump's desperate drive to rush 10,000 deportation officers onto the payroll by the end of 2025.The explosive Daily Mail report found that the administration's $50,...
  • ToastedRavioli@midwest.social
    48·
    22 hours ago

    “This isn’t the department of baking cookies,” one source said. "This is the Department of Homeland Security, where you can be deported from the country. And we’re now employing people who are not equipped to tie their own shoelaces”

    And giving them firearms…

    • Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.caEnglish
      241·
      21 hours ago

      THAT is an American tradition.

      For a country as obsessed with firearms as the USA the level of knowledge on how to use them safely is shockingly low.

      • IchNichtenLichten@lemmy.wtf
        112·
        20 hours ago

        That’s what happens when gun ownership is a right. It doesn’t matter how fucking stupid, irresponsible, or psychopathic you are, you still get access to firearms and there’s no pressure to learn how to handle them safely.

      • BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        81·
        20 hours ago

        And saying everyone should have a class on it is called tyranny because who cares about a three year old grabbing a gun from between the couch cushions.