Com'on , say it!!!!
SAY IT!
red flag laws are bulls#1t and this guy has a God given right to own a gun.
This guy should have had his firearms taken away from him when he beat his girlfriend last year. !!!
You are clueless. Red flag laws will be expanded to prevent gun ownership by people who take anti anxiety medicine or are a ‘threat’ to the government due to a ‘hateful’ post on Free Republic.
Big enough for you democrat?
Red flag laws would have no more prevented this then domestic violence laws prevented him from beating his girl friend.
I know you only have one function brain cell but whack it with a hammer to see if you can get it firing.
One thing would have stopped it and that would be locking him up. But you do not want to do that do, you you freaking coward!
Head on over to Democratic Underground. You’ll be more in line there with this thinking. Red Flag laws are unconstitutional and violate Due Process.
I am not going to say more to avoid getting personal over your post!
We don’t need another law; violent menaces can already have their weapons seized. They probably ignored his assault and battery on racial grounds.
Moreover, the potential for authorities to abuse red flag laws makes them contraindicative.I call police and claim that Ikeon threatened me. Ikeon is a Republican. Guns gone!
> This guy should have had his firearms taken away from him when he beat his girlfriend last year. !!! <
No. The guy should be doing seven years in prison for beating his girlfriend last year.
2A issues aside, I don’t know how you could take his guns anyway. It’s not like he’d surrender them to a cop standing at his front door. But let’s say the cops search his house, and finds them all.
Then what? Then the guy puts a couple of hundred bucks in his pocket, and go buys a gun on some street corner.
Just like with alcohol during Prohibition. If you want a drink, you can find a drink.
OK, Karen. Domestic violence charges are grounds for removal. Red flag laws don’t apply. They’re for pre-crime. Now run back to sunny California with the other gun grabbers.
Red flag laws are BS
This man was a felon and wasn’t legally allowed to possess a firearm. If the government isn’t going to enforce that law (and they rarely do) what makes you think more laws would do the trick?
He was a felon. Felons are not allowed to own a gun. He did not get his gun legally, therefore a red flag law would not be applicable to him. He should’ve been in prison for his previous torturous behavior.
Red flag lawS
S are bs THIS FU SHOULD HAV BEEN PUT BACk in his cage & had the damn doorwelded shut!
... and one count of possession of a firearm by a felon.
Red Flag Laws are BS.
This guy should have had his firearms taken away from him when he beat his girlfriend last year. !!!
How right you are! Because he should have been in jail for a felony assault. Problem solved. But he was a black man. Exempt from ordinary law enforcement apparently.
And that one of the problems with "Red Flag" laws. They are enforced selectively. Not enforced against members of the Democrat protected classes. That is non-whites, LGBT, and Muslims. Come to mention it, that is an increasing problem with all of our criminal and civil laws.
A "Red Flag" law would not have prevented this shooting because it was never going to be applied against a minority group person.
Thas's racist, donch'a know.
Red Flag laws also have the problem of assuming "Guilty until Proven Innocent.", allowing perjured complaints from anonymous plaintiffs, and ex-parte proceedings which render a judgement without any prior notification or due process for the defendant.
It is unwise to allow government to operate with such lack of restraints.
This was possible because of the state's "civil commitment" laws. Those laws allowed cops,physicians and others to transport a person who was suspected of being a treat to himself or others to a health care facility...against his/her will. It also allowed a psych facility to hold such a person against his/her will for,IIRC,72 hours. And if at that time it was *still* believed that a threat existed the psych facility could ask a court to extend the involuntary stay.
All 50 states have such laws. So "red flag" laws are absolutely unnecessary and are,in fact,just another was to deny a person his/her 2nd Amendment rights.
Red Flag laws are bullshit and this guy lost his RKBA when he committed assault with a deadly weapon against his girlfriend.
WITH A HAMMER.
Hmmm ... maybe we need “red flag laws” for buying hammers?
What say you?
Red Flag Laws are bull sh*t. Illegal, immoral, and unconstitutional.
You can’t arrest someone because they might commit a crime.