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Crazy People Are Dangerous (and the Problem With ‘Red Flag’ Laws)

Posted on | June 18, 2022 | 2 Comments

You haven’t forgotten Deb Frisch, have you? In October 2018, Frisch — whose harassment of Protein Wisdom blogger Jeff Goldstein lasted a dozen years — was finally sentenced to four years in a Colorado prison. When last we heard about her, in August 2021, she had been denied parole after ranting insanely at her parole board hearing.

This morning, I noticed I’d gotten some extra traffic to one of my posts about Frisch, and investigation led to Not The Bee:

If you need a reason to oppose
“red flag” gun laws, this writer’s
harrowing 12-year tale of terrifying
stalking and harassment
might just do the trick

That features a Twitter thread by Jeff Goldstein:

Jeff makes some important points here. The way our legal system operates — the built-in prejudices of courts, based on decades of precedents intended to “protect” the rights of the mentally ill — it is very difficult to get a dangerously deranged person locked up. Whenever a mentally ill person commits an atrocity (or gets shot by the cops), you’ll see commentators saying that this shows problems with our nation’s mental health system, when in fact it was liberal judges in the 1970s and ’80s who decided it should be nearly impossible to keep crazy people locked up in lunatic asylums, where they belong. These same judges, however, will probably be willing to sign “red flag” orders based on unproven claims, without due process for those targeted by such orders.




 

Category: Crime, Protein Wisdom

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2 Responses to “Crazy People Are Dangerous (and the Problem With ‘Red Flag’ Laws)”

  1. Why are Red Flag laws so dangerous? - The DaleyGator
    June 18th, 2022 @ 10:01 am

    […] One reason, the left will use these laws to attack gun owners, and, as in the case of Jeff Goldstein, they will be used by leftists to threaten, harass, and disarm gun owners. If you doubt my fears, consider this story from The Other McCain […]

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