VA’s ‘Flagging’ Of Vets Shows Why Red Flag Laws Are Bad Idea

By Tom Knighton

On paper, red flag laws sound pretty good to a lot of folks. If someone may be a threat, you can notify the courts and their guns get taken away. That mean, in theory, they won’t be able to shoot up the local grocery store or church.

The problem is that a lot of people get flagged as threats when they’re no such thing. Far too many people get their knickers in a twist because you disagree with them. They think you’re a threat because you think they’re wrong or, even more heinously, stupid.

As Michelle Malkin notes at Townhall, the Veteran’s Administration has been “flagging” veterans who take issue with the organization for some time now.

But if you want to know how this American version of China’s social credit system would work in practice, let me remind you of how Veterans Affairs recklessly red-flags “disruptive” citizens without due process, transparency or accountability in the name of “safety.” Government bureaucrats routinely deprive our nation’s heroes of medical treatment based on arbitrary definitions of who and what constitutes a mental health menace.

I first reported on the VA’s secretive database on “disgruntled” and “disruptive” vets five years ago. Under the VA …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms