Posted September 27, 2019 8:30 am by Comments

By Tom Knighton

The biggest argument about red flag laws typically stems from their constitutionality. Most, as written, are a horrendous infringement on people’s due process rights. They assume the individual is guilty and take their guns, leaving it up to said individual to prove their innocence. That’s not how our legal system is supposed to work in the least and you’d think anyone with half a brain could see that.

Well, one would assume that those who make up the Florida Court of Appeals would have at least half a brain, and it seems they don’t see the issue.

A Florida appeals court upheld the state’s new “red flag” law enacted in the wake of the Parkland massacre, ruling that the statute was consistent with constitutional safeguards, a charge that gun-rights advocates have used to challenge these laws amid a broader push for gun control.

The case originates from a domestic dispute involving Gilchrist County Sheriff’s Deputy Jefferson Davis, who accosted his girlfriend, also a sheriff’s deputy, on the suspicion that she was having an affair with another man.

Now, David may not sound like the most sympathetic of subjects. Especially since he also confessed to the sheriff that he wanted to …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms

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