But this isn’t “secret”. It’s also a much lower impact sort of thing.
Fact is, we should have a way to stop potentially dangerous people when they are doing everything but saying, At 2 tomorrow I’m gonna shoot up this school and here’s my gun I’m gonna use.
Ultimately, something like this would be used fairly rarely, but not as rare as the shootings are. But for it to be relatively rare, the safeguards I mentioned (and probably others, if I was carefully thinking it out) would have to be in place.
I would definitely not allow “anonymous” red flags. Otherwise it would just become a new form of “swatting”.
It is secret. Check into any real red flag case. They are handled in family court and completely private. That’s why you can’t see all the assets of your neighbors going through divorce. Family court proceedings are closed to the public.
Read articles on the Gary Willis case, the guy killed by the cops in MD doing a red flag call.
But this isn’t “secret”. It’s also a much lower impact sort of thing.
The first is a good point, not sure about the second yet. Guess we’ll have to see.
I suppose ALL states don’t have something similar in place for involuntary commitment, but seeing how Californiastan is already enacting illegal laws just to spite Trump....
I have a feeling that pwned LEO will be very likely to dispose of the collected weaponry sooner than they “should”.
I’m still trusting Trump, but am growing more concerned about 2025.
If Trump can’t put away at least some of the worst of our domestic enemies, he and his family and anyone who expresses support for him will be attacked the rest of our lives.