Bipartisan Support for Red Flag Laws Wanes as GOP Blocks Bills

[pshift]

Some good news for once...

Bipartisan Support for Red Flag Laws Wanes as GOP Blocks Bills • Stateline

Lee Wagner, a Marine Corps veteran and suicide intervention specialist, has spent the past six years helping fellow veterans process the trauma of their combat experiences, with an eye toward preventing them from taking their own lives. Like many of his peers, Wagner is a gun owner. In recent...

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[Jmac00]

Most of the 19 states that have red flag laws adopted them after the 2018 school shooting in Parkland, Florida—a tragedy that could have been prevented if the state had a red flag law, proponents argue.

you have GOT to be shitting me? How about the number of times the FBI, law enforcement and the school district had encounters with Nick Cruz and did NOTHING. If the laws on the books had been enforced, The Parkland school shooting would have never happened.

This RFL argument is utter bullshit. its a lame excuse to 'legally" confiscate law abiding gun owners firearms with little to no oversite

 

[tirwin1]

Most of the 19 states that have red flag laws adopted them after the 2018 school shooting in Parkland, Florida—a tragedy that could have been prevented if the state had a red flag law, proponents argue.

you have GOT to be shitting me? How about the number of times the FBI, law enforcement and the school district had encounters with Nick Cruz and did NOTHING. If the laws on the books had been enforced, The Parkland school shooting would have never happened.

This RFL argument is utter bullshit. its a lame excuse to 'legally" confiscate law abiding gun owners firearms with little to no oversite

Absolutely correct. Many if not most of these shooters were already on the radar of the police or FBI. As the saying goes they were "known wolves". Red flag laws would not have changed anything. They will make it easier to take guns out of the hands of ordinary citizens, like those troublesome people that go to school board meetings.

 

[Steal2B]

Some good news for once...

Bipartisan Support for Red Flag Laws Wanes as GOP Blocks Bills • Stateline

Lee Wagner, a Marine Corps veteran and suicide intervention specialist, has spent the past six years helping fellow veterans process the trauma of their combat experiences, with an eye toward preventing them from taking their own lives. Like many of his peers, Wagner is a gun owner. In recent...

www.pewtrusts.org

Not such good news. The Federal Red Flag Law passed the House with RINO support