04-02-2019, 09:52 AM
Several states have implemented Red Flag laws, which I'm glad to see. I think President Trump is right to support such laws.
But, it's not the President who makes the decision as to whether a person is a danger to himself and/or others and therefor should be banned from purchasing/possessing firearms. It's the courts, after hearing a petitioned case filed by family or police.
Too many of the mass and family shooters we've covered were reported to police as dangerous ahead of time, some many many times (like Parkland school shooter Nicolas Cruz).
However, law enforcement claimed after-the-fact that they had no ability to legally forbid the reported threats from purchasing or possessing firearms because they hadn't yet committed a crime and weren't deemed mentally unfit by a judge. Red Flags laws can help correct that problem and save lives, in my opinion.
And, Red Flag laws are not a Constitutional breach, for me............just the opposite.
The Second Amendment specifies a "well regulated militia". Arming people who commit and credibly threaten violence against other members of the "citizens' militia" or members of the general population breaches the "well regulated" stipulation of the amendment.
But, it's not the President who makes the decision as to whether a person is a danger to himself and/or others and therefor should be banned from purchasing/possessing firearms. It's the courts, after hearing a petitioned case filed by family or police.
Too many of the mass and family shooters we've covered were reported to police as dangerous ahead of time, some many many times (like Parkland school shooter Nicolas Cruz).
However, law enforcement claimed after-the-fact that they had no ability to legally forbid the reported threats from purchasing or possessing firearms because they hadn't yet committed a crime and weren't deemed mentally unfit by a judge. Red Flags laws can help correct that problem and save lives, in my opinion.
And, Red Flag laws are not a Constitutional breach, for me............just the opposite.
The Second Amendment specifies a "well regulated militia". Arming people who commit and credibly threaten violence against other members of the "citizens' militia" or members of the general population breaches the "well regulated" stipulation of the amendment.