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 won’t. The left sees it as an effective tool for their political agenda and the right are all to often cheerleaders for police power.
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.
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.