How do you feel about "Red Flag" laws?

In my state, a few years ago, we had a school shooting. The security guard was on campus but did not to engage the shooter and by his inaction many students may have died. Within a few weeks, our "Republican" governor and state legislatures pushed through a "Red Flag" law. My state rewarded our governor by electing him to the US Senate.

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SomeMichGuy · M

To which event are you referring?

ProfessorPlum77 · 70-79, MVIP

@SomeMichGuy Parkland.

SomeMichGuy · M

@ProfessorPlum77 Ah.

Lots of police problems happened there...and the school tried to cover up its culpability. Very sad...

ProfessorPlum77 · 70-79, MVIP

@SomeMichGuy I think they fired the resource, but were forced to rehire him. (If I remember correctly.)

SomeMichGuy · M

@ProfessorPlum77 The Wikipedia article has a lot of the twists & turns (w/extensive footnotes!).

I don't know that I'd heard about the school district spending $185k to try to hide their part in not intervening RE: the shooter, but it sounds as though there was blame in several places.

Pretty horrible outcome, regardless.

ProfessorPlum77 · 70-79, MVIP

@SomeMichGuy Yes, there were warning signs, but the local authorities overlooked them. I don't remember, exactly, but this is one shooting that could have been prevented and then while it was happening the resource officer did not engage the killer. Terrible on many levels.