In the wake of the latest mass-murder attacks by gunmen in El Paso and Dayton, so-called “red-flag” laws have come to the forefront of the public debate. Such laws would permit state governments, with federal encouragement, to deny firearms to people whom a judge finds solid grounds to believe may be unstable.
Concerns that these laws would impinge on the right to lawful gun ownership are understandable but overblown.
I say that as a Second Amendment advocate. The rights of self-defense and self-determination are not given to us by the Constitution; they are natural rights that the Constitution safeguards. They are vital to liberty. Indeed, we can be confident that the Constitution would not have been adopted in the first place if the states and the people were not satisfied that the right to keep and bear arms was guaranteed.
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