House Democrats this week advanced a new measure to encourage states to pass “red flag” laws, known as extreme risk protection orders, that authorize removing guns and ammunition from dangerous individuals.
Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee amended the measure during a Wednesday mark-up to authorize the federal government to issue extreme risk protection orders in some instances, but they rejected an amendment that would have red-flagged anyone who law enforcement lists as a gang member.
“The majority of violent crime, including gun violence, in the United States is linked to gangs,” Rep. Ken Buck, a Colorado Republican who sponsored the amendment, said Wednesday. “My amendment is quite simple. It would allow the issuance of a red flag order against anyone whose name appears in a gang database if there was probable cause to include that individual in the database.”
Democrats objected with reasons that sounded very familiar to Republicans.
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5 comments:
Red Flag laws only fit the narrative of going after law-abiding white men who legally own guns.
Right, Hogan, Carl Anderton and Mary Beth Carozza!
Democrats will not allow GANGS to be punished for gun crimes only LAW abiding citizens. Gangs and criminals and illegals are there voter base.
10:48 don't forget queers, lesbians, pedophiles, crooked cops, bad Judges, media personnel, Teachers, ect.
The commie dumbocrats just want to disarm conservative whites. This is proof that it has nothing to do with gun safety.
Just like cap and trade and banning fossil fuels has nothing to do with climate.
Anonymous said...
The commie dumbocrats just want to disarm conservative whites. This is proof that it has nothing to do with gun safety.
Just like cap and trade and banning fossil fuels has nothing to do with climate.
September 23, 2019 at 7:07 PM
BINGO
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