‘Red Flag’ laws are about seizing guns, not protecting citizens

The operative phrase there is “traditionally at least.” Locking people up because someone thinks they might break the law is rapidly becoming the norm. Thanks largely to the UN-winnable “war on drugs.” (It can’t be won because it was never designed to be won–there is just too much pork in that there barrel.) — jtl, 419

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…traditionally at least, in this country we prosecute people for what they do, not for what we think they might do.

 The operative phrase there is “traditionally at least.” Locking people up because someone thinks they might break the law is rapidly becoming the norm. Thanks largely to the UN-winnable “war on drugs.”  (It can’t be won because it was never designed to be won–there is just too much pork in that there barrel.) — jtl, 419

Jonathan Hoffman: Special to the Arizona Daily Star

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The following column is the opinion and analysis of the writer.

  Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey is very enthusiastic about enacting some type of “red flag” law. He was quoted in the Arizona Capitol Times as saying, “I think the STOP plan — the Severe Threat Order of Protection — is the crown jewel of our safe schools plan,” and, “It’s the one…

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