RE: What safeguards are there to protect you, not from anything
Posted on: June 8, 2022 at 15:45:59 CT
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That's easy. The law should require that you have taken an overt act towards the commission of a crime. Uvalde, e.g. A red flag law there would have allowed a report that the perp had fired his BB gun at people from his car. This is itself a crime, which if noted on his record would have blocked him from legally purchasing a firearm. Or, which would have allowed police to take his guns away from him before he murdered 21 people with them.
I'm not aware of any red flag laws which allow someone to be deprived of their right to keep and bear arms simply on the subjective belief of someone that he might commit a crime. No serious person is proposing that.
And I wouldn't support such a law, nor would such a law stand up to constitutional challenge.
If an overt act is required, and if it has to be reviewed by an impartial court, I'm fine with it.