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And this is already the case. Say you legally own a gun. One day you go off your nut, call the police and say you are losing your mind. The people you live with agree and give the cops details that you are about to lose it. You are on psycho pills, and have been taken into protective custody. Your housemates say you held a gun to their heads.

The cops in almost every state have the legal ability right then to take his guns and take him into protective custody. Then AFTERWARDS, a court proceeding must begin.

This is nothing new.

That’s all very well and good for the scenario you describe but, it doesn’t really address the underlying point which is that Trump shouldn’t be suggesting, carte blanche, that we should “take the guns first,then go through due process”.

Imagine the following alternate scenario: Some neighbor of yours doesn’t like that you own guns, for whatever leftist drivel reason, goes to the police and claims you are acting crazy, and gets a bunch of his friends to “testify” to the fact too (i.e lie about you). Then also let’s say you are on some mild anti-depressant medication, that isn’t necessarily indicative of your mental state or capacity to responsibly own a gun, they are just some medications you are taking for a mild case of chronic depression.

So you see where this is going? Some leftist with a grudge against you for whatever reason, maybe it’s not even because you own guns but just because you vote conservative and he knows you do, and thus you must be “stopped”, and since he has no compunction about lying (because he’s a leftist) lies to the police and gets some of his friends to do it too, “corroborating” his complaint. And you are on record taking anti-depressant drugs (which can be twisted into further evidence you are “crazy” when you are not), all of these “reasons” can be used as justification for “taking the guns first, then go through due process”. And exactly what is that anyway?

You now have to go to court to prove you are innocent is what it is, which is the exact opposite of what this country is all about. You shouldn’t have to go to court to prove your are *not* crazy, your accusers should go to court to prove you *are*.

So you or anyone can claim I’m a “pearl clutcher” for not taking this latest spontaneous remark by the president very well. I don’t care. I’ll still *know* I’m a patriotic American who cares about infringement of my God given rights.