Posted on 03/17/2018 7:05:16 AM PDT by cyn
An unnamed 56 yo man in coastal FL town of Lighthouse Point in Broward County, 14 miles east of Parkland, was TRULY speaking & acting irrationally (paranoid schizophrenic?), "Baker Acted" (involuntary commitment with cause, determined by judge to be in danger of harming to himself or others.
Baker Act, from 2017 FL statutes
Due process" concerns are built into the law re: when firearms will be returned to the individual.
HOWEVER, it is not neccessary to be committed in order to have one's firearms taken under the new law SB7026.
Slippery slope?
Very much a slippery slope.
If you have not done so by now it is a good time to take some eggs out of the basket and put them in another.
“Speaking and acting irrationally.....”
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Liberals would place anyone saying “Trump in 2020” in this category.
Makes me think twice about considering a move to Florida.
slippery slope indeed
Just like the fisa court won’t be abused this law won’t either.
/sarcasm
Beyond slippery slope, this is outright a violation of constitutional rights. So a neighbor complaining about someone is all it takes to subject you to confiscation and psychological evaluation. This should chill both left and right to the bone, but of course it wont. The left sees it as an effective tool for their political agenda and the right are all to often cheerleaders for police power.
APPROPRIATION: $400,000,000.00
Effective Date: 3/9/2018
New wave of SWATing to commence.
Not sure that I agree. The cops went and interviewed him and Baker Act’d him. The Baker Act has a pretty high threshold for police to act. You have to express an intent to hurt yourself or others. Sometimes even gun owners lose it.
This I find very bothersome.
Many war veterans have PTSD. Depression is most often a component of PTSD. Depression often makes one suicidal, thus a threat.
The vast majority of such vets are not criminals, have no arrest records and are good citizens. IMO they are better citizens because they actually laid their lives on the line in combat.
Now the very country they have defended is being set up to disarm them?
With the establishment also disarm LEO’s that have duty related PTSD?
Once it becomes “legal” to start taking guns away from certain groups, where will it end?
In my last post “With” should be “Will”.
This is like people dying in car crashes and then seizing seat belts. “How dare you have protection”.
Valid concerns, it seems to me, especially since Trump supporters are known to be mentally defective deplorables.
In liberalism/socialism's shifting sands, what we think is reasonable ("due process" "adjudicated mentally defective") is gonna be my next door neighbor or ME down the road.
"committed to a mental institution" -- could be argued to include a hospitalization for, say, post-partum depression in the past.
Indeed.
There will be eccentric..but not dangerous...people losing their rights while the likes of Sr Cruz will be untouched.
YES -- thanks for your post; that is an even more immediate concern than the "post-partum" depression I mentioned above.
And, THANKS to all veterans for all you have gone through for our freedom.
‘If you have not done so by now it is a good time to take some eggs out of the basket and put them in another.’
That’s why I do not like gun safes. It’s like one stop shopping for gun confiscation. A simple metal cutting wheel type tool can peel one open in a few minutes and they can just reach in like a common thief and take all.
I’m certain most here know that with an 8 inch post hole digger, some 6” PVC pipe supplies, vac-seal equipment and a place not on your own property, that a gun can be hidden where no one can find it.
So Broward Sheriff Scott Israel's guns get confiscated, eh?
This dingbat is a perfect description of someone who should never own a gun.
If it gets to the point where you have to bury your weapons off-property, CWII will have already started.
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