Posted on 09/13/2019 11:19:01 AM PDT by rogerantone1
In the wake of the tragic February 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, states have increasingly looked to so-called “red flag” laws as a means of combating gun violence. To date, 17 states and the District of Columbia have enacted some version of red flag legislation, and many more have considered similar provisions. The general idea behind these laws is to better identify individuals posing extreme risks of danger to themselves or others and to disarm them before they commit acts of violence. This is often accomplished by permitting non-state actors to request that hearings be held to determine whether someone close to them presents such an extreme risk of danger that his or her right to possess firearms should be temporarily revoked, regardless of whether he or she has a disqualifying criminal or mental health history. While such interventions could arguably be useful for preventing certain types of gun-related violence, they also raise serious concerns about due process and the risk of abuse or misuse
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Here’s what the dirbags at DU think...
The people clearly don’t understand the fight they’re picking.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/1287277236
Yes?
No?
Remember, there are damned few liberal judges who won't think that a gun in a house where children live is anything but prima facia evidence of Red Flag danger!
Risk of abuse? I just read where Florida judges have already issued over 2500 red flag seizure orders. Any use of these laws will be abuse. This will end in a standoff at some point. People will start fighting back.
More clickbait...
Clearly the DUmpsters just don’t get it. They were postulating how to make it work and I’m thinking, “how are you going to administer any of that during a bloody civil war?”.
How about establishing Red Flag institutions? For those too young to remember, 50 years ago they were called asylums.
Simple solution: anyone who should not be allowed to be armed should not be running around loose. “No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms.”- Thomas Jefferson
No. The general idea is to get started on total confiscation.
Red flag laws will not work. The gunman that killed 7 and wounded 20 in the Garland-Midland Texas area a few weeks ago failed the background check due to a mental illness history. Denied a weapon, he used his father’s basement metal working tools (mill, lathe, drill, press, etc.) and fabricated a working rifle. This was the rifle used in his killing spree.
Red Flag laws would not have stopped him.
I see DUmmies are as stupid as ever.
Too dangerous to own guns? Then too dangerous to be around vehicles, knives, hammers, tools, ax handles, scythes, etc. Lock ‘em up.
This is about snitching on law abiding gun owners and nothing less. Class warfare waged by liberal judges.
It’s time to invoke the rebellion clause of Amendment XIV:
“No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.”
If the NRA is serious about protecting Amendment II rights, it needs to go after the culpable members of the Florida Legislature.
We need to put the fear of Amendment XIV, Section 3 into every public office holder.
Kiss that pension and government retirement health benefit plan goodbye too.
Just another end run around due process. Like FISA.
Where did you get that?
“...he used his father’s basement metal working tools (mill, lathe, drill, press, etc.) and fabricated a working rifle.
Where did you get that?”
Don’t remember exactly. I read it in some Texas news feed the day after. At the time I though to myself, “They’ll squash this like a turtle crossing a highway.” And I haven’t seen anything about it since.
I have read that he purchased it from a guy who builds rifles from 80% receivers. The ATF was on it, but still haven’t heard who he is or any more about it.
II Right to keep and bear Arms
II Right to keep and bear Arms
IV Unreasonable search and seizure
V Due process of law; private property taken
VI Right to be confronted with the witnesses against Assistance of counsel (Miranda warning)
XIV “. . . nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law; . . .”
Those morons are scary! They really think like that...and...THEY VOTE!!!
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