Snejdarek
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I think everyone has already seen this, but just in case anyone is puzzled by the title...
Given that we have gone that way in the Czech Republic, I will share our experience.
In 2015, a guy shot up a restaurant. I think it is not necessary to go into any detail here, you can read it all on wikipedia. The thing is that he was clearly disturbed, and his family actually contacted both police and his general practitioner saying that he may be dangerous. At the time, unless the threat was imminent (it wasn't), the police could only give the guy 30 days notice asking him to produce affidavit from his General Practitioner that he is of sound mind and may thus keep his firearms. The guy was aware that he would not get GP's OK and at the end of the 30 days period (after which the police may have been able to seize the firearms), he committed the mass murder.
As usual, the case (only mass shooting in the country) was politicized and the idea they came up with was to allow police to "tak guns early, do due process later" in case that they have well founded reason to believe that the owner may present danger to others or himself. Our gun lobby felt tha the atmosphere is steered towards "something gotta give" and decided to support it, as they thought that this is a minor measure compared to what someone may come up unless "something" is done.
Personally, I would be fine with that if there would be at least requirement for court order the same as in case of any other case involving non-gun owner.
Anyway, what happens is that the cops take the guns away and then you have time to come back with GP's affidavit in order to get them back.
Now we have first year statistic in. It turns out that the police used the measure in 124 cases (in the country of 300.000 legal gun owners).
I would expect vast majority of members of this forum to have quite one-sided view of having measures like this. What interests me more are those that have some sympathy for Trump's underlying message and who would support change in laws in US in this direction. Would you care to share your opinion?
Given that we have gone that way in the Czech Republic, I will share our experience.
In 2015, a guy shot up a restaurant. I think it is not necessary to go into any detail here, you can read it all on wikipedia. The thing is that he was clearly disturbed, and his family actually contacted both police and his general practitioner saying that he may be dangerous. At the time, unless the threat was imminent (it wasn't), the police could only give the guy 30 days notice asking him to produce affidavit from his General Practitioner that he is of sound mind and may thus keep his firearms. The guy was aware that he would not get GP's OK and at the end of the 30 days period (after which the police may have been able to seize the firearms), he committed the mass murder.
As usual, the case (only mass shooting in the country) was politicized and the idea they came up with was to allow police to "tak guns early, do due process later" in case that they have well founded reason to believe that the owner may present danger to others or himself. Our gun lobby felt tha the atmosphere is steered towards "something gotta give" and decided to support it, as they thought that this is a minor measure compared to what someone may come up unless "something" is done.
Personally, I would be fine with that if there would be at least requirement for court order the same as in case of any other case involving non-gun owner.
Anyway, what happens is that the cops take the guns away and then you have time to come back with GP's affidavit in order to get them back.
Now we have first year statistic in. It turns out that the police used the measure in 124 cases (in the country of 300.000 legal gun owners).
I would expect vast majority of members of this forum to have quite one-sided view of having measures like this. What interests me more are those that have some sympathy for Trump's underlying message and who would support change in laws in US in this direction. Would you care to share your opinion?