From the NYT:
Meanwhile, the city is confiscating firearms from civilians, including legally registered weapons, Mr. Compass said. "Only law enforcement are allowed to have weapons," he said.
But that order apparently does not apply to the hundreds of security guards whom hotels and some wealthy individuals have hired to protect their property. The guards, who work for private security firms like Blackwater, are openly carrying M-16's and other assault rifles.
Blackwater?!? Seriously? As Max Weber once wrote, "a state is a human community that (successfully) claims the monoply of the legitimate use of physical force within a given territory." Letting Blackwater-types hang around--with M-16s--strikes me as a slippery slope away from that monoply.
P.S. Yes, this is complex. I'm not sure I'm down with cops confiscating licensed guns.
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