U.S.A. – An Extreme Risk Protection Order Bill (ERPO) has been submitted in the gun friendly state of South Carolina. This unconstitutional Red Flag Bill has been submitted by Democrat Representative Ivory Thigpen under H3275, entitled “Seizure of Firearms and Ammunition from a Person Posing a Risk of Imminent Personal Injury to Self or Others”. You can read this bill HERE: https://www.scstatehouse.gov/sess123_2019-2020/bills/3275.htm
There are already 13 states that have passed these laws that have only one intended goal: to circumvent the 2nd Amendment and confiscate guns from people who are considered guilty until proven innocent.
Red flag laws are a threat to every law-abiding gun owner across the nation.
These ERPO or RED FLAG laws do absolutely nothing to target criminals, illegally owned guns, or issues with mental health. Most important, red flag laws will do nothing to save lives! However, what red flag laws will do is violate an individual’s rights, such as:
- 1st Amendment Right to Free Speech, as a comment or even your social media can be used against you. All one needs is to have someone say they fear what a gun owner MIGHT do and they can seek an ERPO from a “judge”.
- 2nd Amendment Right to Keep and Bear Arms, obviously as their firearms are seized without cause.
- 4th Amendment Right to Protection from Unreasonable Searches and Seizures goes out the window.
- 6th Amendment Right to a Speedy and Public Trial is lost as you aren’t made aware of the ERPO claim until the police show up to take your guns.
- You also aren’t afforded your 6th Amendment Right to an Impartial Jury as the complainant goes to a judge and the order is issued…without a jury.
- The 6th Amendment also guarantees your Right to Confront Your Accuser and to have Assistance of Counsel. You don’t get to know who filed the claim, never mind have your lawyer present!
- The 8th Amendment affords the Right to be free from Cruel and Unusual Punishments. Being jailed and having your firearms taken away, not because you have been found guilty of a crime, but simply because you own them lawfully and someone’s feeling were hurt.
Extreme Risk Protection Orders violate every facet of Due Process and are egregiously unconstitutional laws.
South Carolina residents need to make their voices heard NOW! Contact your representatives and tell them NOT to pass H3275! You can locate your South Carolina State Legislators, and their contact information, using this link: https://www.scstatehouse.gov
If you are not sure on how to contact your legislators, you can watch this video that will explain the entire process to you. It is not difficult at all! Remember to be respectful and tell them that you will remember how they vote when their term is up for vote. Also, follow up the calls with emails and reach out to them on their social media accounts.
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We have Centrist in charge who are afraid and want to take the guns of all Nationalist, because of their ( Centrist ) fear of accountability they may face as centrist. IMHO
I doubt anything like this will happen is AZ That said , before I retired from Law Enforcement I made a BOLD comment that this Terrorist activity will never happen in my country ! everyone who knows what’s been happening know I was wrong about that. I’d bet they will go after Vets with PTSD no matter how long they’ve been out of the military and no matter if they have never tried to hurt them selves and or others. Possibly any TOXIC Masculinity They see how good tight gun control works in Chicago,IL. Atlanta, GA, Houston TX New York… Read more »
And it appears that Green Watch Dog has again slunk away with his tail between his legs…. And he will show up again on another article to try and push the same lie to be sure. This time he left after openly admitting his support for Red Flag laws, universal background checks(Ammo, family transfers, and registration required), and a few other choice lists the left wants to impose. He admitted to it out of frustration and wanting to silence others, and in the process bore false witness against me. So much for his “we must be respectful at all times”… Read more »
These ERPO bills and laws are for the express purpose of curbing protected rights, that is the right to self defense with any weapon, what we generally call the 2nd Amendment. That is all they are for. Second, as a licensed health care professional, I can assert that there is no correlation between mental health levels and violence. None whatsoever. Those that think an individual can suddenly “crack” and become violent are just plain wrong. Of all the mass murders of the last five years, the individuals who perpetrated them had a long and well known history with law enforcement.… Read more »
This bill is too vague to be legal, and should not pass. It will not pass in SC. The Governor will not sign this bill if it makes it that far. That all being said, SC 2A supporters need to call their state legislators and tell them neither this bill nor any other bill that tries to restrict our RTKABA must be voted down.
don’t see whats wrong with reporting a known gun owner that has been showing signs of a mental illness or making threats of doing something deadly. I am a legal gun owner, but if I new of someone that acting or talking of doing something terrible , I would be ok with being able to have him/her investigated to see that they are competent to still possess a fire arm. there is a reason that 2a rights are takin away from someone who has been committed to a mental facility. wouldn’t be better to have someone looked into before they… Read more »
all dumocraps are communist pigs
I have yet to hear of anyone challenging these illegal laws in court. Does that mean we are down the tubes as a Constitutional Republic or does it mean the gun grabbers have overstepped their limits, big time, and there will be a constitutional challenge to this. Only time will tell. I hear a lot of complaining about it but no action. Of course, the NRA is on board with it. Trump and Pence saying it doesn’t make it law but that is where it is headed. The 2020 election is going to be interesting and maybe not so good… Read more »
First: Plan accordingly. Anyone in the firearms community who has not seen this coming for years is absolutely delusional. Second: STFU. NO ONE and I mean NO ONE needs to know your business, your political thoughts or what you have in the way of self-defense devices. Take a lesson from history. Family members, especially the females and the children are more apt to turn on you out of sheer vindictiveness or political/social brainwashing. I have seen that happen to others when I worked as a Peace Officer. And it happened to me, courtesy of a very vindictive ex-wife. Stay away… Read more »
ATGWD; YOU DON’T HAVE ANY ROOM TO TALK YOUR BEHIND THIS 100% AS YOU ALREADY TURNED IN SOMEBODY THAT YOU HAVE ADMITTED TOO ALREADY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!