Republicans and Independents Fear Government Will Abuse Red Flag Laws |
![]() Center Square: The majority of Republican and Independent voters think “red flag” gun laws that allow judges to confiscate individuals’ firearms can be abused for political reasons, according to a new poll. Convention of States Action, along with the Trafalgar Group, released polling data Wednesday that shows that 72.2% of Republicans and 52.3% of Independents “believe that ‘red flag’ gun control laws that are designed to temporarily take guns away from individuals have the potential to be abused by local authorities and government officials to disarm their political opponents and/or citizens who disagree with them.” Only 16.4% of Democrats agreed. Overall, 46.7% of all surveyed said there was potential for abuse while 30.8% said there was no potential for abuse of the laws. The poll is timely since the U.S. Senate voted late Tuesday to advance a round of gun control measures that included support from 14 Republicans (Center Square). National Association for Gun Rights: Would you look at that! 9 out of top 11 highest NRA funded US Senators voted FOR selling out your gun rights to the Democrats (Twitter). |
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It's not the lack of laws, but the lack of applying them. They will abuse this as all regimes in history abused everything the people let go of! They are changing the basics of our law.....innocent until proven guilty! This makes a pe4son guilty until proven innocent! We know the government never wants to admit they are wrong,anyone charged will have a hell of a time and a lot of expense to get their rights back!