No, Biden’s Push For Red-Flag Laws Won’t Keep Anyone Safer

Gun confiscation is not an option for someone who is a real danger to themselves or others. There are many other ways that disturbed people can cause harm. Advocates of “red flag” laws want people to believe that simply taking away someone’s legally-owned guns means the problem is solved.

Last week, the Biden administration declared that it would use part of the $1.8 trillion spending bill passed following last year’s elections to give. $231 Million Red-flag laws in states that push for gun-control policies and enact red flag laws. Gun-control advocates of Moms Demand Action, Michael Bloomberg, were once again on hand following the mass shooting at Michigan State University last week. Red-flag laws are not to be believed as the solution. Michigan legislators also see it as an attack. a chance To pass the law.

The law does not respect due process. Judges can remove a person’s gun without hearing. However, the laws don’t make people safer.

Although it’s possible for someone to do some crazy things with a motor vehicle and no red flag laws apply to taking away the right to drive, A 62 year-old man ran over pedestrians on a Brooklyn sidewalk with a UHaul truck last week. One person can be killed and eight more injured.. The man was described as having had a mental health crisis.

The Crime Prevention Research Center is open up to 2018 A list of vehicle attacks around the world was created.. This was the most recent vehicle attack. France, July 14, 2016,, when 86 were killed and 430 wounded. This attack was more fatal than any American mass shooting. Only the November 2015 Paris concert attack in Western Europe was more fatal.

In the last few years, there have been many more vehicle attacks. A 38-year-old man, who was already facing felony criminal charges for trying to murder the mother of his child by driving his car, was arrested in November 2021. Six people were killed and 62 more were injured by the same vehicle during a Waukesha Christmas parade.

In November 2022, Florida police This was only narrowly avoided A “mass casualty” event at a 5K Thanksgiving Day run by stopping a woman before she could drive her Range Rover through the crowd at 60 mph. Once caught, the woman is released. “repeatedly banged her head” You can also use the windows of a police vehicle. 

The Washington Post points out that Between May 2020 and June 2020At least 18 vehicles deliberately drove into people.

Anthony McRae, the MSU killer suspect, also had an affair. History of mental illness. The police even conducted a welfare inspection on him one week prior to the attack. If the police had not done so, however, “reasonable belief” McRae was a danger to him or others. They already had the authority under Michigan’s voluntary commitment law to have him assessed. McRae’s mental health professionals would have agreed to an immediate hearing. A lawyer would have been provided for his defense. 

Judges can involuntarily commit people, but they have many other options. These include voluntary mental health treatment with follow-up hearings or taking away someone’s guns.

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