Joe Biden patted himself on the back for signing the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act. Then he and Kamala promptly ignored it.
Biden used the BSCA to issue executive gun control orders that exceeded any authority granted by the Act as well as violating the Administrative Procedures Act and the Constitution of the United States, as amended.
Harris, as the head of the OGVP (Office of Gun Violence Prevention), which should not be confused with the OGPU, the secret police organization in the early days of the Soviet Union, has been pushing red flag laws and spending allocated funds on programs that don’t come close to meeting the requirements Congress added. These included full, substantive, due process at all stages of the ERPO process (which eliminates ex parte orders), investigation of all claims prior to an order being considered, and penalties for making false claims.
However, the big flaw with red flag laws, at least as they apply to self-harm (suicide and attempted suicide), is they don’t obligate anyone to provide help to the person named in the order. They also don’t require any type of mental health assistance or counseling; don’t apply to anything except firearms; and don’t require the immediate restoration of Second Amendment rights and immediate release of any guns seized.
Looking at CDC mortality data, red flag laws don’t seem to have much of an impact on the total number of suicides and states that passed them actually saw an increase in the percentage of suicides committed with firearms.
Moreover, there doesn’t seem to be any data on the outcomes. What percentage of the subjects of red flag interventions went on to end their lives in other ways or with a gun they obtained in spite of the order?
Red flag laws, as they exist in American states today, make sense only if they are considered as thinly veiled gun grabs.
By Bill Cawthon
Author and consultant on Second Amendment issues
Second Amendment Society of Texas
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