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Texas shooting revives calls for ‘red flag’ laws to take guns from dangerous people
Washington Times ^ | Today | Susan Ferrechio

Posted on 05/26/2022 7:42:56 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici

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To: Jim Robinson

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21 posted on 05/26/2022 8:22:09 PM PDT by Gasshog
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To: VeniVidiVici

Anyone dangerous enough to have their firearms taken away is dangerous enough to be incarcerated either for a crime or for mental issues.


22 posted on 05/26/2022 8:23:53 PM PDT by TheDon (Resist the usurpers)
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To: blueunicorn6

No. It’s just to disarm those they seek to kill.


23 posted on 05/26/2022 8:25:08 PM PDT by TheDon (Resist the usurpers)
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You know that’s where this is going.

An Appeals court in MD or NC (Mid-Atlantic) ruled that someone deemed an Insurrectionist by simply attending a function such as Jan 6th (not breaking any laws) can be banned from holding office.

That’s crazy. People have the right to vote for Bobby Byrd, let’s say, in WVA, or Maxine Waters, who publicly called for Violence and mob action.

We have a President with a couple Corvettes trying to ban Fossil Fuels who’s calling for Gun legislation while his son broke Federal Gun laws with impunity.

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24 posted on 05/26/2022 8:25:36 PM PDT by AnthonySoprano (Lindsey Graham: How can anyone be Mad at Joe Biden)
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To: VeniVidiVici

The left can’t even admit Trans are sick people...fat chance getting useful pre murder people.


25 posted on 05/26/2022 8:30:52 PM PDT by goodnesswins (....pervert Biden & O Cabal are destroying America, as planned.s )
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More kids have no fathers. More kids are isolated. More kids get into evil stuff on the Internet very young. More kids have parents mired in drugs.

More kids have no hope of ever getting a better position in life with so many jobs sent overseas and such a bleak economy full of debt.

Joe Biden said to Coal Miners — learn to code.

Who pays the house payment, car payment, and feeds the family while you get a Community College degree and then start out making $14.00 in entry level positions?

There is actually no plan for the American middle class, just bumper sticker slogans to keep people docile and ill informed.

The Plan is for the Ruling class to grow larger fortunes and ensure they are untouchable.

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26 posted on 05/26/2022 8:34:02 PM PDT by AnthonySoprano (Lindsey Graham: How can anyone be Mad at Joe Biden)
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To: AnthonySoprano

That was pretty deep. Valid points.


27 posted on 05/26/2022 8:53:09 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Vote Democrat and stay on the plantation!)
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To: LouAvul

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental_Health_Systems_Act_of_1981

Good ole reagan shut them down. Not the greatest decision. Not quite as disastrous as his amnesty to illegals but pretty close.


28 posted on 05/26/2022 8:55:29 PM PDT by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016 democratic )
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To: VeniVidiVici

No, because who decides who is dangerous? The same people that keep calling the 6th and insurrection?


29 posted on 05/26/2022 9:35:10 PM PDT by Irenic
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To: Irenic

Probably but we have to deal with the propaganda arm of the Democrat Party everyday. Thank God we have had the Senate on our side the last few years but a slick change of the rules would screw all of us.


30 posted on 05/26/2022 9:38:25 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Vote Democrat and stay on the plantation!)
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To: VeniVidiVici

Has anyone asked Alec Baldwin for comment?


31 posted on 05/26/2022 11:20:49 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: VeniVidiVici

If someone is a danger to themselves or others, they should be locked up. Taking a gun does nothing but serve as a confiscation program.

Most of these claims are ruled on at night by a magistrate, not a judge, so they get rubber stamped in favor of confiscation.


32 posted on 05/27/2022 2:34:53 AM PDT by fruser1
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To: VeniVidiVici

So-called “red flag” laws are a terrible idea.

Firstly, we already have laws to declare someone mentally incompetent and to involuntarily commit them. What red flag laws allow is for the police to show up, grab their guns without due process of law, and then do nothing else.

Think of it. We say a person is mentally unstable and needs help. So we grab their guns and then don’t get them any kind of help. We leave the car keys and any of a number of other things they could use to cause harm. We just grab the guns. Oh, and it doesn’t take a psychiatric evaluation of any kind. Anybody can just make an accusation and that’s all it takes for the cops to show up and grab their guns.....and yes, this has been weaponized by ex spouses or ex girlfriends/boyfriends as anybody with even half a brain could have predicted was going to happen.

In one case in Maryland the cops launched a pre dawn raid to grab a guy’s guns without making it clear who they were and shot and killed him when he reacted by going for his guns because he thought he was being attacked.

Anything that allows the legal system to ignore due process of law is a terrible idea.


33 posted on 05/27/2022 2:56:58 AM PDT by FLT-bird
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To: napscoordinator

Yeah, and thanx to him, I can’t buy a machine gun made after ‘86. I always figured he had a machine gun collection and wanted a ten fold increase in their value before he left office.


34 posted on 05/27/2022 5:15:20 AM PDT by LouAvul (Complacency is the enemy of courage.)
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