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.