re: #58 Blind Frog Belly White

I was discussing Red Flag laws with some relatively polite gunhumpers online just last week. They objected that the laws were dangerous to LEOs tasked with taking the guns.

I pointed out that someone who would shoot at LEOs in the course of their duties is pretty much the definition of someone who should not be allowed to own a gun.

They said Red Flag laws were already getting people shot, and used the example of a woman in Florida whose estranged boyfriend called police and told them she’d threatened him, and threatened suicide, and was armed to the teeth. SO they went to her place, BROKE IN, and when she woke up they were standing over her bed, so she pulled one of the two guns she kept under her pillow and threatened them, so they tased her and then shot her, wounding her.

That’s Swatting, not Red Flag, which requires police to provide a judge with at least their sworn statement that the person is a risk, and then the judge rules on the search warrant to search their home and seize guns, and the respondent has the opportunity to challenge it and overturn it.

They wouldn’t let go of the bad example, because, I presume, they’d read it in something online that used it as an example of why Red Flag Laws are bad, and they had nothing else.

So I told them, since they’re not willing to do anything to keep guns out of the hands of people who shouldn’t have them, they are declaring that the tree of THEIR liberty must be watered with the blood of schoolchildren, concertgoers, moviegoers, college students, etc.

I can understand that potential for abuse of a Red Flag law. However, that potential for abuse is far outweighed by the safety concerns it addresses.