(October 8, 2014 at 12:38 pm)Minimalist Wrote: I can live with it. At least California's way they are trying to stop the bloodshed.
Maybe.. but bills like this confirm the paranoia of the gun owners because there are already laws that enable a family to commit someone to a mental evaluation, and if found mentally incompetent their weapons are taken away. So this law simply seems to be a sneaky attempt to take guns from non-mentally troubled people. While that would be fine for many anti-gunners the NRA understandably does have a problem with that.
I personally have nothing to fear from a law like that because it would never fly in SC or TN, but I do have a real problem with the infringement of due process no matter if the law subject matter is one I favor or oppose.
There is no reason that a law like this couldn't be rewritten to avoid the lack of due process. A man must have the ability to defend himself in court before anything is taken from him. Have him brought to the courthouse first not later. If the damned court is too busy to see them immediately, then the court is the problem. Build more courthouses or use the ones you have more efficiently.
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