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by ELB
Thu Nov 15, 2018 1:42 pm
Forum: 2019 Texas Legislative Session
Topic: HB 131 - Here come "Extreme Risk Protection Orders"......
Replies: 42
Views: 10304

Re: HB 131 - Here come "Extreme Risk Protection Orders"......

mojo84 wrote: Thu Nov 15, 2018 1:35 pm
ELB wrote: Thu Nov 15, 2018 1:22 pm
Soccerdad1995 wrote: Tue Nov 13, 2018 5:20 pm ...

If someone is really this dangerous they need to be locked up immediately. ...
This. Focus on the person causing the problem, not the tools of folks not causing the problem.

And double-amen to the advice above from my Army and Air Force bretheren about the inclination for divorce lawyers to misuse any law for an edge. I too have seen military and non-military husbands shafted because the wife's lawyer made fatuous claims about the husband, and it is no secret that divorce courts tilt toward wives.
So, it's better to lock someone up without due process? Isn't locking them up more of a violation than temporarily removing one's guns?
Didn't say that, did I?

I did say that if a person is dangerous enough to cause a problem by using a gun, he's dangerous enough to cause a problem by using his fists, a car, a bomb or whatever. The focus of any law controlling dangerous persons should be the dangerous person, not guns and cars and stuff used by everybody else.
by ELB
Thu Nov 15, 2018 1:22 pm
Forum: 2019 Texas Legislative Session
Topic: HB 131 - Here come "Extreme Risk Protection Orders"......
Replies: 42
Views: 10304

Re: HB 131 - Here come "Extreme Risk Protection Orders"......

Soccerdad1995 wrote: Tue Nov 13, 2018 5:20 pm ...

If someone is really this dangerous they need to be locked up immediately. ...
This. Focus on the person causing the problem, not the tools of folks not causing the problem.

And double-amen to the advice above from my Army and Air Force bretheren about the inclination for divorce lawyers to misuse any law for an edge. I too have seen military and non-military husbands shafted because the wife's lawyer made fatuous claims about the husband, and it is no secret that divorce courts tilt toward wives.

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