Red flag laws get little use as shootings, gun deaths soar

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4 thoughts on “Red flag laws get little use as shootings, gun deaths soar

  1. Hmmm… Maybe the problem is something else, like all guns are too easy to acquire, or maybe being able to purchase assault weapons is too easy, or maybe it’s to easy to purchase military style sporting rifles, if you want to use the NRA euphemism.

    Ask Norway, or Australia how they managed to stop mass shootings or almost eliminate gun violence? What secret do they know that nobody has told anybody in the US?

    Red flag laws are just ONE piece of effective change. We need to look at real policy and positions, and not thoughts and prayers. I can here the 2A guys now, “let’s eliminate red flag laws because they don’t work”.

    1. Sorry to disappoint, Dan, but the problem is that these laws, like so many gun laws, are not enforced. There are plenty of gun laws in this country, but prosecutors are too often unwilling to pursue them.

    2. “Spot on.” LOL. You think Norway is a good example of a country that has stopped mass shootings?

      Even if you don’t count Anders Breivik, who still carried out the most ruthless mass shooting in modern history (69 killed, plus 8 more in bombings in Oslo), simply because it happened over a decade ago…Oslo had a mass shooting just a few months ago at a gay bar: 2 dead, 21 injured. And Breivik will be back out of prison in less than 10 years, thanks to Norway’s “compassionate” prison sentences. He’ll be in his early 50s and most likely perfectly healthy to plot another killing. Derp.

      Thoughts and prayers are vastly more successful than sort of “pre-crime” red flag garbage, which absolutely can and will get weaponised to smear people who by guns who happen to have views that aren’t en vogue in a certain locale. As usual, the left seeks a top down solution for a bottom up problem. And the results are abysmal.

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