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Guns aren't cheap. If the goverment has a lawful reason to take them they ought at least to pay fair market value.
They say temporarily take your guns. If California gets them you'll never see them again.
If someone is deemed to dangerous to be trusted in society with all of their rights intact, they should not be walking around with the rest of us. The solution is the same as it is for violent criminals: lock them up until they are no longer a threat. If we aren’t willing to do that, then we obviously don’t consider them dangerous.
I already gave you the alternative: if they’re that dangerous, they should be locked up. If you’re taking someone’s right to own firearms away, you should be removing their ability to use firearms no matter where they come from. What’s to stop your hypothetical boogieman from stealing his neighbor’s firearm and going on a shooting spree or from using a different method to harm others? After all, we’re talking about someone who is too unstable to be trusted.
Red flag laws provide a false sense of security. They give government the power to arbitrarily confiscate firearms based on how “dangerous” someone is, but do nothing to address the actual danger posed by that person. Again, if someone is too dangerous to be in society with all of their rights, they shouldn’t be in society. If you think that’s an oversimplification, then your issue isn’t the threat caused by the person. Your issue is the threat caused by firearms which, on their own, are no more dangerous than a paperweight.
Dean on.
If one is a threat taking one "rock" away does not disable the threat......if it's real.
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