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The Problem with ‘Red Flag’ Laws
by paxf August 9, 2019 Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said he will introduce a bipartisan bill to encourage to create ‘red flag’ laws with President Trump’s support. Such laws make it easier to take guns away from people deemed to be ‘mentally ill’. Critics warn that red flag laws will be used to deprive entire classes of people, such as retired military or law enforcement, of their Second Amendment rights. Sound far-fetched? It’s already happening at the VA. --- Watch the video nearby- ‘Citizens, Give Up Your Guns! - Why We Have the Second Amendment’ |
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When considering red flag laws -- the notion of barring mentally ill people from owning firearms -- one only need recall all the leftist voices telling us not terribly long ago that President Trump was mentally ill, to imagine how such laws would be applied.
There's a precedent too, in 1930's Europe, where German authorities were tasked with ensuring that only "reliable" or "trustworthy" individuals were permitted to own, possess, manufacture weapons, et cetera. After Kristallnacht, this turned into an outright prohibition against Jewish ownership of any weapon whatsoever, if my rusty German passes muster, in the Verordnung gegen den Waffenbesitz der Juden (Ordinance against the possession of weapons by Jews).
A caller to a national radio show, a Special Ops operator, recently expressed his concerns -- nearly all of these professionals have or can be deemed to have PTSD, stress, anxiety, sleep disorders, have sought counseling, or carry other pretexts that would make them eminently red-flaggable.
Last, the Washington Post has a running tally of every American killed in a mass shooting since the 1960s. As of August 7, 2019, 1,196 lost since August 1966 amounts to 23.6 Americans per year, on average, lost to mass shootings. A terrible thing. By contrast, in the last century, Europe lost something closer to a million people per year, on average, to dictators and tyrants, started two World Wars, and gave us fascism, socialism, Marxism, and communism.
Between the million a year and twenty-something a year, I'll take the twenty-something a year, thank you, and praise the wisdom of the founders of this nation, that we've remained free during two centuries when nearly every country in Europe has failed over and over, to miserable effect.
There's a precedent too, in 1930's Europe, where German authorities were tasked with ensuring that only "reliable" or "trustworthy" individuals were permitted to own, possess, manufacture weapons, et cetera. After Kristallnacht, this turned into an outright prohibition against Jewish ownership of any weapon whatsoever, if my rusty German passes muster, in the Verordnung gegen den Waffenbesitz der Juden (Ordinance against the possession of weapons by Jews).
A caller to a national radio show, a Special Ops operator, recently expressed his concerns -- nearly all of these professionals have or can be deemed to have PTSD, stress, anxiety, sleep disorders, have sought counseling, or carry other pretexts that would make them eminently red-flaggable.
Last, the Washington Post has a running tally of every American killed in a mass shooting since the 1960s. As of August 7, 2019, 1,196 lost since August 1966 amounts to 23.6 Americans per year, on average, lost to mass shootings. A terrible thing. By contrast, in the last century, Europe lost something closer to a million people per year, on average, to dictators and tyrants, started two World Wars, and gave us fascism, socialism, Marxism, and communism.
Between the million a year and twenty-something a year, I'll take the twenty-something a year, thank you, and praise the wisdom of the founders of this nation, that we've remained free during two centuries when nearly every country in Europe has failed over and over, to miserable effect.
- Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation, the existence of subordinate governments, to which the people are attached, and by which the militia officers are appointed, forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition... Notwithstanding the military establishments in the several kingdoms of Europe ... the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms. But [with the American structure proposed in the Constitution] it may be affirmed with the greatest assurance, that the throne of every tyranny in Europe would be speedily overturned in spite of the legions which surround it."