Posted on 03/23/2024 7:48:19 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
O Rly? Just ask Randy Weaver.
$750,000,000 to destroy the right of self-defense
That was my very first concern...using federal tax dollars to pursue a legislative agenda...at the state or federal level.
Rather incestuous, isn’t it?
so your liberal rat supporting neighbors can rat you out to the nazis party
And our current crop of Republicans in Congress just voted for this? What’s their excuse?
The Uniparty Has Spoken: "Damn Those Pesky Little People Full Speed Ahead!"
Ahh, no, I disagree.
Existing laws need to be enforced with vigor and glee. Drug dealers, distributors and users alike need to be harshly punished the same as some Asian countries do. Organized crime, which includes small street gangs, need to be disbanded with all members given the same punishment as the drug people.
Saturday, March 23, 2024
Press Release
For Immediate Release
Office of Public Affairs
The Justice Department launched the National Extreme Risk Protection Order (ERPO) Resource Center (the Center) which will provide training and technical assistance to law enforcement officials, prosecutors, attorneys, judges, clinicians, victim service and social service providers, community organizations, and behavioral health professionals responsible for implementing laws designed to keep guns out of the hands of people who pose a threat to themselves or others.
“The launch of the National Extreme Risk Protection Order Resource Center will provide our partners across the country with valuable resources to keep firearms out of the hands of individuals who pose a threat to themselves or others,” said Attorney General Merrick B. Garland. “The establishment of the Center is the latest example of the Justice Department’s work to use every tool provided by the landmark Bipartisan Safer Communities Act to protect communities from gun violence.”
ERPO laws, which are modeled off domestic violence protection orders, create a civil process allowing law enforcement, family members (in most states), and medical professionals or other groups (in some states) to petition a court to temporarily prohibit someone at risk of harming themselves or others from purchasing and possessing firearms for the duration of the order.
In 2023, the Justice Department’s Office of Justice Programs (OJP) awarded $238 million to states, territories, and the District of Columbia under the Byrne State Crisis Intervention Program (SCIP), which was created by the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act and is designed to help jurisdictions implement crisis intervention strategies, including ERPO programs. In addition, OJP awarded $4 million to support training and technical assistance under Byrne SCIP, including $2 million that was awarded to the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions to establish the ERPO Resource Center. In collaboration with OJP’s Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), the Center will support states, local governments, law enforcement, prosecutors, attorneys, judges, clinicians, victim service providers, and behavioral health and other social service providers in their efforts to implement ERPO programs to fit local needs, share resources and promising practices with the field, and help ensure that funding received through Byrne SCIP is effectively utilized.
“Supporting our law enforcement and community partners in curbing the scourge of gun violence is more critical than ever,” said Acting Associate Attorney General Benjamin C. Mizer. “In addition to other resources leveraged across the Justice Department, this Center will provide communities with new tools and technical assistance to help them implement effective crisis intervention strategies and reduce gun violence.”
“OJP’s investment in ERPO programs demonstrates the Department’s commitment to addressing the gun violence crisis in the United States,” said OJP Assistant Attorney General Amy L. Solomon. “This crisis cannot be solved at one level of government. We must use all of our resources and collaborate at the federal, state, and local levels to find innovative, evidence-based, and holistic solutions to help keep American communities safe.”
Through the Center and its newly launched website, states, local governments, law enforcement, prosecutors, attorneys, judges, clinicians, victim service providers, and behavioral health and other social service providers will have direct access to critical information that will enhance their ability to reduce firearm homicides and suicides. The website will be maintained and updated to include newly developed resources for the field created through the Center, in partnership with BJA. The website also provides a platform for the Center to highlight emerging and promising practices in successful ERPO implementation and connect states and localities to innovative strategies to reduce gun violence and save lives.
As of this month, 21 states and the District of Columbia have enacted ERPO laws. Successful and effective ERPO implementation requires a comprehensive and holistic approach that incorporates a wide range of stakeholders. The Center is designed to provide resources consistent with that need.
Updated March 23, 2024
Topic -—— FIREARMS OFFENSES
Components-—Office of the Attorney General Office of Justice Programs (OJP)
Office of the Associate Attorney General
Press Release Number: 24-338
What new agency is it?
Way to go, Mike Johnson. You’re such a cool guy.
I guess the 39 police visits wasn’t enough to hoist a red flag on Nicolas Cruz, what will run a flag up the pole.
As a high school freshman, Rittenhouse participated in the Explorers program at the Grayslake Police Department, as well as a cadet program at the Antioch Fire Department, with the goal of becoming a paramedic or working in law enforcement.[2] Eventually transitioning to online school, he dropped out and left Lakes Community High School altogether in 2018 after attending for one semester in 2017–2018.[2][3] He expressed interest in law enforcement through publicly-viewable social media posts. In December 2018, Rittenhouse started a fundraiser through Facebook for Humanizing the Badge, a nonprofit.[3] Other posts revolved around "honoring police, with Blue Lives Matter graphics, photos of officers killed in the line of duty, and the "thin blue line" flag associated with support for law enforcement."[3] On his TikTok profile description, Rittenhouse had written, "BLUE LIVES MATTER 🔵" and "Trump 2020 🇺🇸 🇺🇸".[4] On January 30, 2020, Rittenhouse attended a Trump rally in Des Moines, Iowa, seated in the front row.[4] He got a part-time job as a lifeguard at the YMCA in Lindenhurst, but was furloughed in March 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic began.[5][6]
Our doctors would routinely "pink paper" patients to that state hospital for evaluation...often ordering that they be put in four point restraints while being transported. And doctors and cops in every state can do that and have been able to do that for decades. If you're too unstable to have a gun (which does happen) then you're too unstable to be walking free.
BTW...we called it "pink papered" because the official form the state gave us for the doctor to fill out was pink.
But on any subject that is even slightly political...or can be twisted into something political...you shouldn't trust the objectivity of a single word you see.
A long time ago, I did a Google search of FR. Someone had gotten “online Jewish support group” into the wiki page. I had to laugh.
This way they can take firearms from law-abiding American citizens and hand them over to the illegals who enter our country. Because the courts say they are entitled.
Why doesn’t Kamala Harris just go there herself and persuade them with her stunning rhetorical flourishes. Bring a bongo accompanist. They come cheap.
i dont know, but that is where this new red flag garbage is coming from. this admin just prints money without approvel
I just posted the fact that this new ‘money’ would be called counterfeiting in the real world.
yes it would
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