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Do Red Flag Laws Actually Work?

KERA's Think

English - November 07, 2019 20:32 - 48 minutes - 44.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 799 ratings
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Red flag laws, or “extreme risk protection orders,” make it easy for the government to confiscate guns from citizens if they pose a grave risk to society. It sounds logical, but do they actually work? Jacob Sullum of Reason magazine joins host Krys Boyd to talk about his view that a “great idea on paper” is simply a license to prevent gun ownership. His Reason article is headlined “States are Depriving Innocent People of Their Second Amendment Rights.”