A number of tragic mass shootings have as soon as once more gripped the nation and thrown Individuals in a tizzy of debate about gun management. These newest tragedies have managed to get bipartisan assist for brand spanking new gun management measures with president Donald Trump, distinguished Republicans and Democrats popping out swinging simply hours after the shootings.

Echoing the well-known sentiment of Rahm Emmanuel of “by no means (letting) a severe disaster to go to waste,” Trump got here out aggressively this week noting that “We will need to have one thing good, if not GREAT, come out of those two tragic occasions!”

Following his Tweets, Trump gave a speech on the White Home calling for stricter gun legal guidelines.

“We should be sure that these judged to pose a grave threat to public security do not need entry to firearms, and that in the event that they do, these firearms could be taken by way of fast due course of,” Trump mentioned on the White Home throughout a press release responding to the weekend massacres that killed at the least 31 individuals in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio. “That’s the reason I’ve known as for red-flag legal guidelines, also called extreme-risk safety orders.”

Trump’s remarks are on board with new gun laws proposed by democrats which has bipartisan assist from ostensible supporters of 2nd Modification rights on the best. This isn’t, nevertheless, pro-gun rights.

Republicans pushing for controversial purple flag legal guidelines ought to come as no shock, nevertheless, because it has lengthy been on their agenda. As TFTP beforehand reported in February of 2018, after the tragic capturing in Parkland, FL, President Donald Trump took to nationwide tv to betray his oath to the Structure and his supporters and famously mentioned, “take the weapons first, undergo due course of second.” Whereas this was largely ignored by his base and downplayed within the media since then, that’s precisely what’s been taking place. Trump has merely rebranded it as “fast due course of.”

However would grabbing weapons from individuals deemed a threat by the state even have any impact on mass violence? Not going.

Stronger background checks would have little to no impact on mass shootings as a lot of the mass shooters purchase their weapons legally and go the background checks. As Motive factors out:

The weather of that laws are largely window dressing that may do little or nothing to stop assaults like these. Essentially the most ceaselessly talked about coverage, “common background checks,” is plainly irrelevant to those explicit crimes, since each the El Paso shooter and the Dayton shooter bought their weapons legally, which means they didn’t have disqualifying legal or psychiatric data. Nor do the overwhelming majority of mass shooters, who both handed background checks or might have. Neither requiring background checks for personal transfers nor creating “robust background checks,” as President Donald Trump has proposed (maybe referring to the identical coverage), would make a distinction in such circumstances.

However what about purple flag legal guidelines that take weapons from individuals deemed a threat?

Residents who’re focused by these legal guidelines shall be deemed responsible first and solely after their weapons are taken, will they’ve an opportunity to defend themselves in courtroom. That is the de facto removing of due course of.

As Reuters reviews, below the laws, a member of the family or legislation enforcement officer might petition a choose to grab firearms from an individual they assume is a menace to themselves or others. The choose might then maintain a listening to with out the focused particular person being current and grant a brief order for 14 days.

Underneath the fifth and fourteenth amendments, due course of clauses are in place to behave as a safeguard from arbitrary denial of life, liberty, or property by the federal government exterior the sanction of legislation.

Despite what officers and the media declare, when an individual is stripped of their constitutional rights, albeit quickly, with out being given the prospect to make their very own case based mostly on what could be completely arbitrary accusations, that is the removing of due course of. And, it doesn’t work.

We’ve seen this play out earlier than already. Earlier this yr, a tragedy unfolded in California as a deranged gunman, Kevin Douglas Limbaugh, walked up on an harmless lady, officer Natalie Corona, pulled out his weapons and started capturing her repeatedly till she died. Limbaugh then fired a number of extra pictures at others earlier than turning the gun on himself and taking his personal life. Had extra individuals been close by, Limbaugh would’ve doubtless carried out a mass capturing.

Limbaugh’s case is vital to convey up as a consequence of the truth that — earlier than he killed a cop — he was topic to California’s “purple flag” legal guidelines in 2018. Limbaugh was given a high-risk evaluation that ordered him to show in his registered weapons to police, the one one being a Bushmaster AR-15. On November 9, Limbaugh turned within the weapon.

Regardless of being banned from possessing a weapon, he nonetheless obtained one illegally and used it to commit homicide.

What’s extra, there have been already legal guidelines on the books that ought to’ve stopped Nikolas Cruz, the murdering psychopath in Parkland Fl, from ever getting a gun as nicely. However none of them labored.

Citing Cruz as the rationale for advocating the erosion of the 2nd Modification, the anti-gun activists are claiming he ought to’ve had his weapons taken which might have prevented the tragedy. Sadly, nevertheless, they’re ignoring the truth that he was accused of a number of felonies by a number of individuals—and will’ve by no means been in a position to buy a gun within the first place—however legislation enforcement didn’t act on any of it. These threats included particularly saying he was going to hold out a mass capturing and threatening to kill particular person individuals.

The reactionary nature of disarming Individuals as a result of deranged psychopaths kill individuals is harmful and solely serves to maintain the weapons out of the palms of legislation abiding residents because the above two circumstances illustrate. Furthermore, deranged psychopaths don’t even want weapons to trigger mass dying.

In keeping with a 2015 research, even when all weapons had been faraway from America, in a ten yr interval, 355 individuals nonetheless would’ve been murdered in mass killings.

From 2006 to 2015, 140 individuals had been murdered by arsonists in mass fires, 104 had been stabbed in mass stabbings, and 92 individuals had been crushed to dying in mass killings. To reiterate, these are deaths by which 4 or extra individuals had been killed.

“Individuals sufficiently enraged to commit such crimes may be motivated to seek out different methods,” criminologist James Alan Fox of Northeastern College factors out.

Regardless of all this info on the contrary, the left and the best appear hell bent on refusing to let this tragedy “go to waste,” and are utilizing it to additional erode the rights of the 99.9999999 % of the harmless people who find themselves not murderous psychopaths. And all of it will likely be “authorized” — due course of and innocence be damned.