Posted on 08/15/2019 10:36:44 AM PDT by mbarker12474
Edited on 08/15/2019 11:45:06 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
FERNADALE, Md. (WJZ)
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Some of you appear to have read something into the article that escaped me. The article says that a fight between the policemen and the homeowner happened and during this physical encounter the man’s gun fired. It did not say that he fired the gun at the police. There is a major difference.
Perhaps the police should have contacted the man first by phone, text or whatever and advised that they were going to confiscate his gun. Ask him to do it peacefully and explain the entire process to him. Let him know that if he refuses, then they will have to take his gun by force.
After the tirade by Cumo he should be a condidate for a redflag law. But since he is a celebrity tv anchor, he can hire people to walk around with him and carry guns.
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What planet do you call home?
Cops want to go home to their families at the end of the night. Not saying no-knock warrants don’t exist, but until they make red flagging a no-knock situation, you still have the right to remain behind a closed door. There’s no requirement for you to open the door to your home to law enforcement.
David Koresh and 75 other Branch Davidians would disagree.
I didn’t say that it would end well. I just said you have the right. Sheesh.
And so it begins...
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Perfectly understandable you should think that, but as a lifetime Marylander I must make known two points: (1) in the 2016 election Trump won 17 of 23 counties. Unfortunately the counties won by Hitlery around Baltimore and D.C. are home to the majority of tbe State’s electorate. And (2) my home county of Garrett has voted Republican in every election since it was established in 1872.
Get your fact straight before spewing your blather:
1.In 2018, two Maryland police officers shot and killed 61-year-old Gary Willis in his own house after waking him at 5:17 a.m. The officers, who were not harmed during the shooting, had been ordered to remove guns from his home under the State’s Red Flag law.
2.Red Flag laws violate due process. The United States Constitution mandates that no one shall be “deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law.”Seizing the property of individuals who have been convicted of no crime violates this provision.
3.Gun control advocates claim due process is not violated because people whose firearms are taken can appeal to courts to reclaim their property. However this backward process would imply that the Second Amendment is a privilege, not a right.
4.Red Flag Laws, as written, a person could be subject to an Extreme Risk Protective Order (ERPO) without ever having committed, or even having threatened to commit, an act of violence with a firearm.
5.The duration of ERPOs is unclear — which could end up being weeks, months, or a year or more. Gun owners would then be forced to go to court multiple times just to win their Constitutional rights back.
6.Our justice system, was designed, so that it does not punish people before they commit crimes. Through these Red Flag laws, the State is now empowered to unilaterally infringe upon a right specifically enumerated for Constitutional protection in our Bill of Rights without due process and before a person commits any kind of criminal conduct. Just because someone “might” be a danger is wholly legally insufficient to infringe upon their rights.
We already remove rights and commit people who are deemed a danger to themselves or others or who cannot take care of themselves.
WACO?
And your point is?
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