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249 | Saagar & Marshall: America's Gun Debate + Should the U.S. Fight for Taiwan?

The Realignment

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What's the Point of Red Flag Laws?

Red flag laws are effectively an administrative courts ability in order to adjudicate that you have mental health red flags. And thus a judge can decide, through like a quasi judicial proceeding, that they can take away your ability to buy gun. Red flag log gets a little bit tricky, just because of the administrative stat and all that stuff, but everyone can agree, take the current laws on the books and enforce them. That was another problem with the evangelical church shooting. Basically, this guy was convicted in the air force of domestic abuse. The air force were supposed to be reporting all these crimes to the fbi background check system. They turned out that they just had never done it. You don

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