3 a.m. and your door gets busted in thanks to the Red Flag laws. One dead already from these unconstitutional laws.
I'm going to guess you're referring to the Fernadale, Maryland man, Gary Willis, who was shot to death by police officers back in November of 2018?
If so, here's a quote from
one news report (bold print is mine):
"
A 61-year-old man is dead after he was shot by an officer trying to enforce Maryland's new 'red flag' law in Fernadale Monday morning.
That man was identified as Gary J. Willis of same address.
Officials said Willis answered the door while holding a handgun. Willis then placed the gun next to the door.
When officers began to serve him the order, Willis became irate and grabbed his gun.
One of the officers tried to take the gun from Willis, but instead Willis fired the gun.
The second officer fired a gun, striking Willis. He died at the scene."
I
won't disagree that any state's Red Flag Law is unconstitutional for several reasons.
But Maryland's Red Flag Law didn't kill Gary Willis. The man died because he did something really really stupid.
We seem to be in an era now wherein law enforcement officers are getting murdered at random by people wielding guns of all types. It's happening with such regularity that it's hardly national news any more. Maybe a paragraph or two in the media and a brief report on national news. Local news media
do cover those incidents in greater depth, I'll say that much for them.
If law enforcement officers come to someone's door and identify themselves as law enforcement officers serving a warrant, it's a great idea to do as they say. It's a very
bad idea to pick up a gun while talking to them. Someone does something
that dumb, what do people
think the cops are gonna do? Walk away?