* What Red Wave- that was all smoke and mirrors to scare the voters into thinking that things would have been a whole lot better if 45 was still around. Remember how the grifter would go repeat ad nauseum that : Gas was $ 1.87. Inflation was low, so by being voted out of office, Americans screwed themselves over. Yeah, right.
* Americans saw through all that BS, and hedged their bets. They figured out that the mess 45 left behind could not be cleaned up in a year and a half, and that they did not want to return to the Trump era in any way whatsoever. That has to be true because all of 45's picks for the US Senate went down in flames, had 45 prevailed, 2024 would have been bloodbath- but it goes to show that as much as we have imbeciles in this country, we have some sane heads as well.

Yep,
Armed black panthers at voting precincts intimidating voters again

A red puddle...lol

Review: Can Red Flag Laws Really Help Prevent Mass Killings???


What Are Red Flag Laws?
Red flag laws are designed to give authorities a way to intervene and take guns away from a person who is perceived as a possible threat. Also called extreme risk protection orders (ERPOs), these laws can take away guns even if the person doesn't have a criminal record or history of being institutionalized for mental illness, or other factors that might show up in the federal instant background check system and prevent him or her from buying a gun from a dealer. Loopholes and omissions in state records submitted to the background check system often have enabled mass shooters to obtain guns, even when they should have been disqualified.

"This is about putting protocols in place, so that when an individual is identified as potentially being a threat to themselves or other people, police and courts would have the authority to remove firearms," explained Daniel J. Flannery, director of the Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, when we interviewed him in September 2019.

According to Flannery, red flag laws try to strike a middle ground between preserving public safety and individual rights. A person who's flagged isn't arrested or charged with a crime, and authorities have to be able to convince a judge that their possession of guns poses a risk. And the person has an opportunity to get the weapons back at some point.

"But there's a due process piece to that, so that it's not automatic and not permanent," Flannery said.

Which States Have Red Flag Laws?
So far, red flag laws have been enacted by 19 states — California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia and Washington — and by the District of Columbia, according to Everytown for Gun Safety Support Fund, a group that does research and advocates measures to reduce gun violence.

In Florida, where a red flag law was enacted in 2018 in the wake of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting where 17 people were killed, authorities have filed 8,162 petitions through the end of 2021 to take guns away from people.

Red flag laws have attracted strong public support. A Washington Post-ABC News poll conducted in early September 2019, for example, found that 86 percent of Americans supported allowing the police to take guns away from people whom a judge finds dangerous. That included 94 percent of Democrats, 85 percent of Republicans and 82 percent of independents. On May 25, 2022, a Reuters/Ipsos poll of 940 people conducted the day after the Uvalde shooting, found that 70 percent of participants supported red flag laws.

Red-flag laws have come into sharper focus since the bipartisan gun deal signed into law June 25, 2022, by President Joe Biden, which was aimed at getting more states to adopt the measures by improving public education about the laws in states that have them and providing a legislative framework and implementation grants.

In August 2019, President Donald Trump, who otherwise had largely opposed gun control, indicated his support for red flag laws. On the other side, the National Rifle Association's website features this May 2019 article that criticizes existing red flag laws as violating gun owners' Second Amendment rights.

Whether or not red flag laws do much to prevent mass shootings is a more difficult question to answer.

The 2019 study by UC Davis researchers cited 21 cases in California in which a court issued an order to seize guns "after the subject of the order had made a clear declaration of intent to commit a mass shooting or had exhibited behavior suggesting such an intent." But it's really not possible to prove conclusively that any of the individuals actually would have committed these acts.

Jeffrey Swanson, a professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Duke University School of Medicine, wrote this Washington Post opinion piece, in which he argued that red flag laws aren't necessarily going to prevent killings by mass shooters, except in instances in which an "alert citizen" notices that an angry young man is amassing an arsenal.

Nevertheless, Swanson supported such laws, because he and other researchers have found strong evidence that they reduce another sort of gun violence that cumulatively inflicts a much higher death toll — suicide by firearm. In this 2017 article about Connecticut's red flag law, he and colleagues calculated that for every 20 guns seized through a red flag law, one suicide is prevented.

"Almost all of these laws — they really have been a legislative response at the state level to public concern and outcry over mass shootings," Swanson explained. "But ironically, when they're put in place, the main thing they're used for is suicide concern."

For that purpose, red flag laws manage to plug the loopholes that allow people who are suicidal, or eventually become that way, to obtain guns. "We focus all this attention on the point of sale, people who have felony criminal record or mental health record," Swanson said. "Those rules are too narrow and too broad. They identify lots of people because they had an involuntary commitment 25 years ago and won't hurt anybody, and they also fail to identify people who do pose a risk." Swanson has found that 72 percent of gun suicides in Florida would have been able to legally purchase a gun on the day that they took their lives.

Preventing suicidal people from getting guns saves lives, because research shows that people who try committing suicide by other methods end up surviving 80 to 90 percent of the time, Swanson said. But with a gun, they're effective at killing themselves almost all of the time.

"From the picture of public health, that's a good enough reason" for red flag laws, Swanson said.

Even so, a red flag law might stop a few mass killings, if, say, the neighbor of a potential mass shooter notices that he's acting strangely and has amassed an arsenal of weapons. And as long as weapons suitable for mass murder remain readily available in America, it might be one of the few options available for protecting the public from more carnage

What you call "black panthers" were actually Buffy the Vampire Slayer's group hired by Walker. Herschel thought about hiring Teen Wolf Michael J. Fox, but decided not to because he heard "a fox can't kill a vampire".

In 2018 JAP's people were saying, "Black Panthers Just Took Over City (Atlanta) – All Out War On Election Day". But according to Carlos Campos, public affairs director for the Atlanta Police Department     "There is nothing happening at any of our polling places today that requires a police response".

On Tuesday Fox 5 in Atlanta reported people "could" see armed guard "near" polling places. Why is it so important for the MAGA Kool-Aid drinking Trump worshipers to spread racists disinformation?

Oh great, now the village idiot that doesn't know the difference between "the red wave" and "Red-flag laws" is trying to hijack Blog entries.

* Armed black panthers at voting precincts- why? Could it be because the Maga folks wanted their “ observers “ to see the “ whites of the democratic voters” plainly a intimidating tactic of the other party. They cried during the 2020 election because they were not “ close enough” to read the ballots, hey fools, you were not party of those who were counting, you had no legal right to say anything- you were not invited to the party, but complained about not enough donuts to go around, or not enough peas in the curry.
* Talking about “ Armed” folk, what were armed conservatives doing on Capitol Hill Jan 6th, some with zip ties? How about a straight answer Jap?

Saying "voters could see armed black panthers near precincts" was the Fox News people way of scaring older while people not to vote but forgot most older white people are Republicans.

On Tuesday the Supreme Court heard arguments on a hypothetical discrimination v religious freedom case and on Wednesday heard a theory based on the misinterpretation of the Constitution. They still have two more days this week to take away more Rights from women.