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    Default "Red Flag" law working to make law abiding citizens safer

    Maryland man dead after threatening police with a gun he would have gotten back by being calm.

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    Is this minority report? How do you know he was going to do anything? And how is a man dying a success?
    Keep changing the names. It doesn't change the meaning.



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    Quote Originally Posted by Irish View Post
    Is this minority report? How do you know he was going to do anything? And how is a man dying a success?
    He did do something. He threatened police officers with a gun.

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    Anne Arundel County Police have only had nine “red flag” calls so far.
    since the year is almost over, that shows the red flags are not being abused.

    We keep saying "we gotta do something" -well this is doing something

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mr.Badguy View Post
    Maryland man dead after threatening police with a gun he would have gotten back by being calm.
    I didn't know "not being calm" carried the death penalty.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Irish View Post
    Is this minority report? How do you know he was going to do anything? And how is a man dying a success?
    Good point. I thought the red flag laws were supposed to reduce deaths.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Flash View Post
    Good point. I thought the red flag laws were supposed to reduce deaths.
    The law might have saved his life, had he not broken multiple other laws by attacking the police with his gun. Meanwhile everyone else is now safer that someone who would threaten police with a gun is off the streets.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Flash View Post
    I didn't know "not being calm" carried the death penalty.
    It does if it includes threatening police with a deadly weapon.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mr.Badguy View Post
    It does if it includes threatening police with a deadly weapon.
    A person threatening the police with a deadly weapon could be killed with or without a red flag law which seemed to accomplish nothing.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mr.Badguy View Post
    He did do something. He threatened police officers with a gun.
    A lot of people do that, without redflag laws. I am actually in favor of RFLs but I don't see how this is a good example.
    Keep changing the names. It doesn't change the meaning.



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    Quote Originally Posted by dukkha View Post
    since the year is almost over, that shows the red flags are not being abused.

    We keep saying "we gotta do something" -well this is doing something
    Killing a 61 year old man with zero criminal offenses is doing something?

    Shut the fuck up you freedom hating pussy.
    It is the responsibility of every American citizen to own a modern military rifle.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mr.Badguy View Post
    The law might have saved his life, had he not broken multiple other laws by attacking the police with his gun. Meanwhile everyone else is now safer that someone who would threaten police with a gun is off the streets.
    What if the cops were raping your wife?

    Considering that Red Flag laws violate multiple Constitutional rights, he did nothing wrong.
    It is the responsibility of every American citizen to own a modern military rifle.

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    Flash: threaten a cop with a gun, and s/he will shoot you. End of story.

    Rune: a 61 year old man who is threatening a cop with a gun is committing a capital offense in the moment; and the cop will shoot you. End of story.
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    One less threat to the public
    "Do not think that I came to bring peace... I did not come to bring peace, but a sword." - Matthew 10:34

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    Quote Originally Posted by jimmymccready View Post
    Flash: threaten a cop with a gun, and s/he will shoot you. End of story.

    Rune: a 61 year old man who is threatening a cop with a gun is committing a capital offense in the moment; and the cop will shoot you. End of story.
    The actions of the cop were violations of his 2nd fourth and six amendment rights.
    It is the responsibility of every American citizen to own a modern military rifle.

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