A Red Herring In The Debate Over Florida’s Red Flag Law

By Cam Edwards

The South Florida Sun-Sentinel continues to provide excellent coverage of Florida’s continued gun control debate in the wake of the 2018 shootings in Parkland, Florida. Their work in exposing the troubled history of the killer and the missed opportunities to deal with him before his murderous rampage have been some of the best local reporting I’ve seen in recent years. But there’s one small part of the paper’s recent coverage of the state’s red flag laws that kinda bugs me. And to be fair, it’s a quote from someone, not the reporters words.

“No one deprived of access to guns, to my knowledge, has gone on to commit any shooting,” Tuter said. “It served the purpose it was intended to serve: who is going to argue that a person with a mental health crisis shouldn’t have access to a weapon?”

Tuter is Broward Chief Administrative Judge Jack Tuter, who says the county is averaging about one “red flag” case per day, which seems like a lot to me. But the judge claims that since no one subjected to a red flag law has committed a shooting, that must mean the law is working. Not so fast, …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms