Red Flag Laws Will Lead to Gun Confiscations

By Cheryl Chumley

Gun control legislation is winding through the Senate, largely on the wings of Democrats but floated, too, by a dozen or so Republicans who’ve seen fit to sign on to red flag laws - that is, the idea of courts stripping Second Amendment rights from those deemed dangers to themselves or others. These Republicans are politically mis-stepping; they have no business supporting red flag laws, which are unconstitutional seizures of God-given rights to protect self and family. The Second Amendment wasn’t put in place by the Founding Fathers as a provision for government - as a little slice of freedom for politicians, judges and medical professionals to decide who gets it and who doesn’t get it. Rather, the Second Amendment is a recognition of a right individuals in America already have from their heavenly Creator, as well as an accompanying stipulation that government is in place only to protect and preserve those inherent individual rights. Republicans, frankly, ought to know better than to side with Democrats on these "laws." [more...]