Our Congress is talking about passing a gun control bill, still nameless in today’s Wall St Journal. This bill would “encourage” states to pass “red flag laws”. The journal did not say what “encouragement” means, a juicy federal payment for just passing a “red flag” law? Or a bounty of cash for each person who has his firearms seized? Or???. Far as discussion in the Journal or on Fox goes, all it takes is a judge’s say-so to confiscate a victim’s firearms. Judges are nice people and all, but they know little or nothing about mental health, psychosis, or depression. No requirement for a board of experienced people, clergy, psychiatrists, law enforcement and others to evaluate the victim. Victim does not get a chance to defend himself.
If the victim is so bent out of shape that we need to confiscate his firearms, is he not so bent out of shape as to require a stay in a mental hospital? Find out what his problem[s] is/are and treat them. Today we have a lot of very powerful drugs for mental problems.
Seizing the victim’s firearms is cheap, one visit by law enforcement and it is done. Providing a bed in a mental hospital takes real money. Confiscating the victim’s firearms makes the anti-gun people happy and does not cost much, which probably accounts for the popularity of the idea.
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