If it's unsafe for that person to have their firearms, they shouldn't be out roaming the streets while they await trial. The Red Flag law is simply the wrong solution to that problem and not even a very good one. Plenty of ways for said person to harm people without their firearms. Either they are a threat or they aren't.
You're right - the subject at hand wasn't simply "red flagged", he was arrested.
Red flag laws are used when someone is suicidal (which is the majority of gun related deaths, IIRC). AFAIK, severe depression is not a crime.
But again, red flag laws were not employed here. None of the articles mention that at all, so I have no idea why HappyGunner inserted that into the narrative (fake news?), and he hasn't come back to this thread to explain his somewhat cryptic post.
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