{"id":82747,"date":"2022-07-12T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-12T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=82747"},"modified":"2022-07-10T08:15:43","modified_gmt":"2022-07-10T13:15:43","slug":"red-flag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=82747","title":{"rendered":"Red Flag"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Democrats, nationwide and in Minnesota, are fixated on &#8220;Red Flag Laws&#8221;.  In the wake of Uvalde, it&#8217;s become the flavor the the month for the grabbers, yet again &#8211; part of the endless cycle that the gun control movement has become. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, it&#8217;s <em>hypothetically <\/em>possible to create a Red Flag Law that could work.   But it won&#8217;t, and can&#8217;t, be the Red Flag bill that the DFL keeps dragging out in the Minnesota legislature, which:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Lets pretty much anyone turn in anybody, for reasons legitimate or malicious.  Various Twin Cities anti-gun groups have already promised to use the measure to &#8220;SWAT&#8221; Minnesota Second Amendment activists if it passes, which they can certainly do, since <em>nothing about the bill prevents it.  <\/em><\/li><li>Leads to the cops driving away with someone&#8217;s guns &#8211; but leaving them in a home full of knives, rope and propane.  <\/li><li>Perverts dues process, with a low standard of evidence to take the guns, and a <em>much<\/em> higher one to get them back. <\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>All that is bad enough.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But once you get to that, you come to the inevitable realization that if our mental health system can&#8217;t effectively intervene in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kare11.com\/amp\/article\/news\/crime\/family-of-children-found-dead-in-vadnais-lake-speaks-out\/89-62f71ded-2725-4594-a17b-14be5ab6e685\">a tragedy like this horrific s**t-show earlier this month<\/a>, what do you think they can do about cases that present much more subtly, or with much more backstory ?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats, nationwide and in Minnesota, are fixated on &#8220;Red Flag Laws&#8221;. In the wake of Uvalde, it&#8217;s become the flavor the the month for the grabbers, yet again &#8211; part of the endless cycle that the gun control movement has become. Now, it&#8217;s hypothetically possible to create a Red Flag Law that could work. But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-law","category-victim-disarmament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=82747"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82754,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82747\/revisions\/82754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=82747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=82747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}