Red flag laws: the complete antithesis of both freedom and the Second Amendment.
Sure, anti-2A people will argue that if it saves lives, it’s worth a loss in freedom, and if that were true, they might have something that we should talk about.
But red flag laws are often used to disarm the innocent under false allegations that bitter and dishonest people use to weaponize law enforcement against average law-abiding Americans.
It’s absolutely disgusting.
And before someone says that red flag laws aren’t used against the innocent, read today’s story (hat tip to here for the lead). Mark Chesnut writes,
According to [Gary Marbut, president of the Montana Shooting Sports Association (MSSA)], the Montana man called an old girlfriend in Washing to ask a question. After the former girlfriend contacted police saying she felt threatened, a Washington judge entered a temporary restraining order, which, under Washington’s “red-flag” law allows for the confiscation of firearms simply on the accuser’s word. The man’s local police department in Montana, after receiving the order, confiscated all of his firearms—despite the fact that his state of residence doesn’t have a “red-flag” laws.
Things got even worse after that. After the accusing ex-girlfriend recanted her story, the Washington judge dismissed the temporary restraining order. But now, because of various other restrictive gun laws in Washington, the man hasn’t been able to get his guns back.
Now, Chesnut doesn’t mention why the ex-girlfriend lied and had the police take the man’s firearms under false allegations. The fact of the matter is, though, that she recanted her story.
In other words, she now says that her original story wasn’t true.
We’d call that a lie.
But the gun control laws from one state were still used to wrongly take the man’s guns.
Look, we all know that red flag laws violate the Second Amendment. It’s about time that anti-2A activists were honest about how often those laws are used to take away the rights of innocent people and that all red flag laws are invalidated.
