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Sen. Lindsey Graham is drafting 'red flag' gun confiscation bill. Every right has its limit say Grah
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<blockquote data-quote="Alibiiv" data-source="post: 1641285" data-attributes="member: 69192"><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>I live in Rhode Island, a sanctuary State, of corruption. I think that we have more <u><em>political whores</em></u> here in Rhode Island than there are in Washington DC!!! Our governor, Gina Raimondo, declared this state a sanctuary city; she's one of Hillary's supporters!! What has recently happened is that there are numerous "rural" towns that do not support the concept of "sanctuary cities" and have declared their townships as <em>2nd Amendment sanctuary cities</em>. These cities support the 2nd amendment and the right to carry!! This "is" something that ought to really catch on, however the concept is not being administered in areas where responsible gun owners can get this concept put in place. </strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>What I am finding is that if we publicly push back the anti's do not know how to handle being pushed back! I live in a rural town in south-western Rhode Island. We had a politician "try" to get a town ordinance passed where a land owner had to have at least 300 yards from their neighbor's property before that land owner could discharge a firearm! The neighbor/politician decided that the noise disturbed her children and her pets! The area that I live in is very conservative, it held up the ratification of the U.S. Constitution for two years in its days. I think that every Swamp-Yankee came out of the woodwork to protest the introduction of that ordinance; everyone here owns and values their ability to defend their homes and property. Our state's 2nd Amendment Coalition showed up in numbers, the ordinance proposal was tabled, it has never surfaced since. </strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>Rhode Island just introduced the red-flag laws, that "already" were on the books; but, we know how that goes. I was in LE, <em>I felt that it was a good law to have on the books and still do</em> because of the many situations that we had to deal with and the angry/crazy people who we had to deal with. We had one PTSD veteran who was well trained, very aggressive and did not like his wife and police officers at all. After one of his displays of anger toward his wife, with the kids in the car, an affidavit and arrest warrant was obtained and we had to arrest him. Imagine the pucker factor when we had to go to the house to arrest him, we took AK's with 75 round drum magazines, a couple of sawed off shotguns and a few hand grenades from the house. And....that's one of many incidents of this nature that I can remember. During my tenure we also removed axes, machetes, cavalry swords, katanas, a few shovels, and sometimes the keys to the family car during domestics and acts of rage. I believe that law enforcement does red flag laws to disarm individuals who ought not to have firearms, unfortunately with these laws comes the ability for them to be misused/abused as well. I don't think anyone on this forum or any 2nd Amendment supporter is in disagreement with LE being able to disarm a person who ought not to have a firearm. If the red flag laws are used for what they were designed for <u><em>I consider them good laws</em></u><em> and worth having on the books</em>; however, with the "anti' movement in this country I can see where they can be abused and used to disarm the country. And....just another attempt to dilute the 2nd amendment protections.</strong></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Alibiiv, post: 1641285, member: 69192"] [B] I live in Rhode Island, a sanctuary State, of corruption. I think that we have more [U][I]political whores[/I][/U] here in Rhode Island than there are in Washington DC!!! Our governor, Gina Raimondo, declared this state a sanctuary city; she's one of Hillary's supporters!! What has recently happened is that there are numerous "rural" towns that do not support the concept of "sanctuary cities" and have declared their townships as [I]2nd Amendment sanctuary cities[/I]. These cities support the 2nd amendment and the right to carry!! This "is" something that ought to really catch on, however the concept is not being administered in areas where responsible gun owners can get this concept put in place. What I am finding is that if we publicly push back the anti's do not know how to handle being pushed back! I live in a rural town in south-western Rhode Island. We had a politician "try" to get a town ordinance passed where a land owner had to have at least 300 yards from their neighbor's property before that land owner could discharge a firearm! The neighbor/politician decided that the noise disturbed her children and her pets! The area that I live in is very conservative, it held up the ratification of the U.S. Constitution for two years in its days. I think that every Swamp-Yankee came out of the woodwork to protest the introduction of that ordinance; everyone here owns and values their ability to defend their homes and property. Our state's 2nd Amendment Coalition showed up in numbers, the ordinance proposal was tabled, it has never surfaced since. Rhode Island just introduced the red-flag laws, that "already" were on the books; but, we know how that goes. I was in LE, [I]I felt that it was a good law to have on the books and still do[/I] because of the many situations that we had to deal with and the angry/crazy people who we had to deal with. We had one PTSD veteran who was well trained, very aggressive and did not like his wife and police officers at all. After one of his displays of anger toward his wife, with the kids in the car, an affidavit and arrest warrant was obtained and we had to arrest him. Imagine the pucker factor when we had to go to the house to arrest him, we took AK's with 75 round drum magazines, a couple of sawed off shotguns and a few hand grenades from the house. And....that's one of many incidents of this nature that I can remember. During my tenure we also removed axes, machetes, cavalry swords, katanas, a few shovels, and sometimes the keys to the family car during domestics and acts of rage. I believe that law enforcement does red flag laws to disarm individuals who ought not to have firearms, unfortunately with these laws comes the ability for them to be misused/abused as well. I don't think anyone on this forum or any 2nd Amendment supporter is in disagreement with LE being able to disarm a person who ought not to have a firearm. If the red flag laws are used for what they were designed for [U][I]I consider them good laws[/I][/U][I] and worth having on the books[/I]; however, with the "anti' movement in this country I can see where they can be abused and used to disarm the country. And....just another attempt to dilute the 2nd amendment protections.[/B] [/QUOTE]
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