Wednesday, August 07, 2019

Red flag laws

In National Review, David French writes this about gun control.
...there is one place where gun owners and gun-rights opponents meet: Americans who have demonstrated by their own conduct that they’re not fit to own a weapon should not be allowed to own a weapon.

That’s why you see near-universal agreement that felons, people subject to restraining orders because of their past domestic abuse, or people who’ve been adjudicated as dangerously mentally ill should be kept from obtaining guns. These individuals were found to have engaged in dangerous or unlawful conduct, having received the due process to which the Constitution entitles them. Depriving them of a gun protects the individuals themselves and the public. Providing them due process protects their liberty.
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