Police in the state of California have taken a radical and unconstitutional step toward the disarmament of Americans based purely on their political views by seizing the handgun of a 27-year old Orangevale resident, Andrew Casarez, because of posts he made on the internet.

The Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office served Casarez a gun violence restraining order along with a search warrant for an Orangevale residence related to him…“He was putting some anti, we’ll say some racist rhetoric on an assumed Facebook page that was not under his actual name. It was under the name Vic Mackey,” Nelson said…Officers discovered several items inside the Casarez residence including a black gun case with two empty magazines, and a semi-automatic pistol.

“Whatever firearm they seized inside that house was his,” Nelson said. [CBS 13 Sacramento]

Casarez is allegedly a leading member of the “Bowl Patrol,” a small online discussion group that produces repulsive memes, podcasts, and other content. The group’s name comes from the “bowlcut” hairstyle of mass shooter Dylann Roof, who murdered nine black churchgoers at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina.

The “Bowl Patrol” disgustingly created memes celebrating Roof as “Saint Roof,” and has praised other mass shooters as well.

Police linked Casarez to the pseudonymous account “Vic Mackey” after he was doxed by the Autonomous Comrades Collective, an antifa organization which went to extreme lengths to investigate Casarez’s private life. The ACC then shared the information with HuffPost, which ran a lengthy profile of Casarez.

Both HuffPost and ACC suggested that Casarez may have also been responsible for offensive posters put up at a synagogue in Orangevale.

Now, police have used Casarez’s doxing as a justification to strip him of his constitutional rights.

According to a local CBS station, police were explicit that Casarez’s gun was taken not because he was plotting a violent crime, but simply because of his statements online:

“This search warrant it’s the first of its kind at least in the country. As far as how we obtained it and were able to serve it,” Nelson said. “He was posting enough racist rhetoric and propaganda on Facebook that it was concerning that his behaviors could become violent in retaliation.”

Local agencies are keeping a close eye on the house connected to Andrew Casarez. As for the FBI, they don’t police ideology. They will only take action if a person threatens violence or actually commits a crime. But the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office wasn’t willing to wait.

“Instead of waiting for him to go out and commit acts of violence, per se, they were able to ideally stop it before it started. But he did have a firearm in his possession,” Nelson said. [CBS 13 Sacramento]

Revolver News naturally does not endorse anything reprehensible said by Casarez. But what Casarez said ultimately doesn’t matter: Whether we like it or not, he is an American citizen, who has the same Constitutional rights as everybody else. Those rights include the right to bear arms and the right to free speech.

Casarez can’t be disarmed simply because police, or anybody else, decided that what he posted online was too hateful and offensive. He can only be disarmed if he has been convicted of a crime, or if police are moving to stop an imminent true threat.

In Brandenburg v. Ohio, 395 U.S. 444 (1969), the Supreme Court established that speech advocating illegal conduct is protected under the First Amendment unless the speech is likely to incite “imminent lawless action.” [The First Amendment Encyclopedia]

While we understand the natural hesitation one feels when tasked with defending an unsavory character, it’s important for conservatives to step up to the plate and defend Casarez on Constitutional principles, no matter how repulsive his conduct may be.

As the old saying goes, “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”

But so far, conservatives have remained silent. Today, the authorities are going after the “Bowl Patrol,” tomorrow they will probably target the Trump movement and the NRA.

No one on the conservative side defended Alex Jones when he was viciously deplatformed by the left, and now the entire conservative movement is being systematically eliminated from Google search results and social media.

Sacramento police may have called their search warrant the first of its kind, but in this revolutionary moment, it won’t be the last. If the left can normalize the idea that offensive views alone are enough to strip a person of their rights, then inevitably, they will expand the scope of what is “offensive” to target their enemies.

Conservatives must fight back now, even in the defense of unsavory characters, or they will will be next on the revolutionary left’s chopping block.

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