Why Red Flag Laws Won't Work.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

I get what you're saying, but you aren't answering my question.  I'll try to re-phrase it.

A person wishes to purchase a firearm.  The shop owner checks and finds out that this person has no record, has never been in serious trouble with the law.  Furthermore, the purchaser doesn't seem agitated or upset.  Maybe he jokes and chats with the shop owner about the weather, or about the local sports franchise. The seller has no legal reason, no 'gut feeling', no evidence or intimation at all that the purchaser plans to go do-lally fucknuts and start mowing people down.

Based on that, why should the shop owner refuse to sell this person a gun?  What criteria would you have gun sellers use to deny a sale?

Boru

I got it..


"A person who wishes to purchase a firearm"


STOP RIGHT THERE......

I am tired of the bullshit sold by the firearm industry and the NRA that  it is a bad thing to say, "Who are you , and are you capable of handling a firearm and are you mentally stable" is a bad thing.

Again..... No airline would simply say, "Oh, you never crashed a passenger jet before, here is an instant pilot's licence on the spot because you have no record."

I am sick of the bullshit vilification that prevention is evil.

I want a microscope up the ass of anyone who is going to have me 40,000 feet in the air. Just like we vet our cops and military. 

I am not saying we should never sell firearms, but damn it, we make too many and we hand them out like candy.

I suffer from anxiety and depression. I SHOULD NEVER OWN A FIREARM........... Just like I should never fly a passenger jet.

Again, I WOULD HAVE NO PROBLEM  with firearm CEOs or shop owners if they gave a fuck, but they do not give a fuck.

*sigh*  I'm going to try one last time, then I'm out. You're just regurging the same stuff and not answering.

By some legislative miracle, you PERSONALLY are give the authority to create new firearms laws in the US.  You can't be overruled by any branch of your government on any level, and the laws you make can only be rescinded by plebiscite (say, 75%). You can create any rules you like regarding weapons types, ammunition, waiting periods - all of it (the only thing you can't do is completely eliminate the right to buy firearms).

NOW:  What specific rules would you put in place that would allow a gun shop owner to refuse a sale to a particular person who doesn't seem upset or agitated and who has no serious criminal record?

Boru