[URL unfurl="true"]https://reason.com/2023/11/01/dont-blame-the-maine-shootings-on-woefully-weak-gun-laws/[/URL]
”Since the Maine killer was released after his psychiatric evaluation at West Point's Keller Army Community Hospital, where he stayed for two weeks, he apparently did not meet the state's criteria for involuntary commitment. But that needn't have been the end of the matter…Gun control activists complained that Maine's "yellow flag" law is harder to use than the "red flag" laws that 21 states have enacted, which have fewer and weaker procedural protections.”
Just as laws cannot compel criminals to obey them, laws cannot compel authorities to enforce them. There is an assumption that authorities will comply more often and more readily with laws than will criminals, but both are driven to noncompliance by self-interest. Rad Flag/ERPO laws relieve authorities of executional burden and responsibility for errors, which gun control activists favor.
“Better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer” is attributed to Blackstone, on whose law commentaries our laws are based in the US.
“Better ten innocent person have firearms quickly and easily seized than one potential killer be allowed to keep them” reflects the contrary basis of Red Flag/ERPO laws.
Liberal prosecutors have abandoned the premise of individual responsibility for the ideology of collective group justice, trying to mete out “equitable” justice, taking into account not only proportional population representation, but also reparative overcompensation. That is, “oppressed groups” get a pass for past and present injustice, plus some extra payback.
The same liberals are happy to mete out collective injustice to the minority gun owner group, in a futile effort to enforce law and order against the a vanishingly small population of mass killers,. The most liberal count of <700 killers in 2022 represents < 0.0003% of the US population. Not only is that injustice immense, but it’s fruitless, as long as laws cannot make people obey them or enforce them.
