I know I am speaking for tens of thousands of my fellow Montanans and tens of millions of my fellow Americans when I write what I’m about to write.
The “red flag” laws that are sweeping the
country violate every principle of liberty upon which our country was
founded. There is no due process associated with “red flag” laws. A
judge’s order to seize the firearms from an American citizen who has not
been accused of a crime, charged with a crime, convicted of a crime—or
who never even threatened to commit a crime—based on the accusation of a
single individual is anything but due process.
Our accuser could be a disgruntled
employee, a bitter ex-spouse or relative, a vengeful neighbor, an
anti-gun liberal or even an anti-gun policeman. By definition, “red
flag” laws use mere suspicion of what one “might” do as justification to
seize a person’s firearms. Tactics such as these have been used in
virtually every despotic regime of history. In the name of protecting
society, the rights and liberties of individuals were denied.
Eventually, these repressive governments included political or religious
persuasion as triggering “red flags,” which led to their
disarmament—all in the name of public safety, of course.
You know as well as I do that when the
rights of ONE American are abridged, the rights of ALL Americans are
abridged. This is not yet a communist nation where the rights of the
state—or even the rights of a majority of citizens—supersede the rights
of the individual.
Furthermore, it is a fallacy to suggest
that a mental health diagnosis, by itself, indicates that someone is
automatically a threat to himself or others. Dr. Ann Bukacek, a
highly-respected medical doctor in the community in which I live,
recently wrote:............http://www.silverbearcafe.com/private/02.19/letter.html
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