Monday, October 30, 2023

No Red Flag Law was Needed to Haul Maine Killer off to Jail

    With all the discussion going on about whether Maine should have a Red Flag to stop mass killers such as Robert Card, one thing is going unnoticed: Making a terroristic threat is against Federal law. You don't need a Red Flag law, you just need to enforce the law against making a terroristic threat.
   As soon as reports started coming in warning that Card was threatening the death of others, he should have been hauled straight off to jail.
   A fellow guardsman in the National Guard unit in which Card served warned that Card was going to snap and commit a mass murder. That should have been enough. Haul him off to jail.
   And, Card should have been booted out of the Guard, and his military issue weapons taken away from him.
   Those are two things that should have been done. They weren't. Why not?

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