re: A cop knocks on your door...

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I think the most beneficial thing that could possibly happen in the gun control debate is for SCOTUS to hand down a decision that the 2A does not apply to those outside of an organized, state-sponsored militia. This, essentially, places the onus on each state to make its own decisions on gun ownership, control tactics, registries, etc.

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Two problems with your rather uneducated thinking here; stare decisis from v. Heller and the fact that most states have their own version of the 2nd Amendment in their own constitutions, many of which are more explicit in protecting the individual right to keep and bear arms.

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Maybe different sentiments from yours. I guess you think you prove intellectual superiority by your lame comment

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No I just don't take advice from or put much stock in what a 16 year old that's obviously being manipulated says. The fact that you think they've got some enlightened message speaks to your intelligence or lack thereof.

I'm well aware of Heller. I'm also well aware that if you think that's the last chance SCOTUS will have to rule on the 2A, you're just flat wrong. As to your mention of state constitutions, that's precisely my point...leave this shite up to each individual state.

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false premise.

The vast majority of law enforcement would resign if ever asked to confiscate firearms.

That's what people don't realize.

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Not just that but it would take at least a decade to accomplish.

EBR for instance:

There are ~450k people in EBR. ERB SO employees somewhere around 900 deputies while BRPD employs around 650 (raising it up to 800 to make the math easier and to include officers for Zachary, Baker and Central).

So you have ~1,700 officers that not only have to continue to patrol the streets, investigate crimes and staff prisons but now they have to also go door-to-door to confiscate firearms from 450,000 people (who, at times, may be violently resistant)?

Even with State Trooper support you're looking at maybe 3-4 5-man teams having to use SWAT-ish tactics to accomplish this, spending about 30 minutes to an hour at each residence to at least make an attempt at verifying that people aren't just hiding their firearms.

Let's average households at 4 people per house, that's 112k houses to have to search at (optimally) 30 minutes per house in an 8-hour day. 4 5-man teams are doing 8 houses per hour, thus 64 houses per day. 64 houses times 365 days (because they aren't taking holidays or weekends off, gotta get dem guns yo!) is 23,360 homes searched per year. At this rate it would take just under five years to search all 112 thousand homes.

The reality is that there are far more than 112 thousand homes in EBR, cops need time off just like everyone else and this doesn't even include businesses or the effects of a gun-owner taking a final stand. Also, this is with a bolstering from the State Troopers and it's only 1 parish. The exact same thing would have to be happening not just in every other parish in the state at the same time but in every county in every state as well as roadblocks to prevent transportation of firearms to avoid capture.

Basic math mixed with human nature says this cannot happen in this country. Ever.

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Not just that but it would take at least a decade to accomplish.

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It will never get accomplished, but the state will try regardless. Most will willingly turn in their weapons. The holdouts will suffer brutal population control measures and violence in an attempt to "make an example". This is an old arse story, and there are no new twists.

"ATF/FBI is on our side!"

If I lived in Broward County Florida, I would laugh, and tell them there was an active shooter in the neighborhood. Problem solved.

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I'm also well aware that if you think that's the last chance SCOTUS will have to rule on the 2A, you're just flat wrong.

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Not very aware at all apparently. Let me clue you in on a very important detail about the v. Heller decision: it was 9-0 in favor of the "individual right" interpretation of the 2nd Amendment. Not 5-4, 9-0. That interpretation was upheld unanimously in two later SCOTUS decisions; Chicago v. McDonald and Caetano v Massachusetts. There will never be a SCOTUS decision that will overturn such a concrete rebuttal of the "collective right" theories of interpretation of the 2nd Amendment.

As for the states, that's what McDonald took care of.

Luckily we are protected from illegal search and seizures, so I tell him to get a warrant.