Posted November 15, 2018 7:00 pm by Comments

By Tom Knighton

Red flag laws are all the rage right now, and I get it. If we want to stop mass shootings from happening, the idea of taking guns away from people–even doing it temporarily–who might be about to blow has something of an allure. After all, if we get their guns then they can’t shoot people, right?

But the problem is that there are a lot of people who completely freak out about guns and are likely to overreact to the mere existence of a firearm.

Take this Facebook account (language warning):

Let me tell you why red flag laws are an awful idea. I bought a handgun years back and posted a photo of it on social…

Posted by Magnus Whitman on Monday, November 12, 2018

Now, we only have Mr. Whitman’s word for this, but I see no reason to doubt it. What he’s describing sounds plausible enough.

An unhinged family member saw a firearm in the profile, took it completely wrong, and could well have created a situation. After all, we have one person dead after police tried to confiscate their guns due to a red flag order. To call such a situation tense is …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms

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