I’ll be the first to admit I have trust issues. Without going
into detail, or regaling you with the past twenty years of my life, let’s just
say my trust issues are well-founded and justified. This is doubly true when
the trust I am asked to extend is not toward an individual but rather a
government apparatus, notorious for overreach, and at this point in time about
as trustworthy as a guy with a gold tooth and a pinky ring trying to sell you
on a pyramid scheme having to do with recycled toilet tissue. Only two spots
left, and all it costs is fifty grand. Best deal of your life, guaranteed!
It’s not a sin to be skeptical, and even the Word declares
that a man who trusts in man or in the arm of the flesh, whose heart has
departed from the Lord, is cursed.
Ronald Reagan famously said that the most terrifying words in the
English language are: I’m from the government, and I’m here to help. I cannot
disagree with this sentiment, especially when the current crop of misfits in
government are set on stripping the average citizen of their rights at every
turn.
I know that this will not land well with some of you, but
truth rarely does.
The big hubbub of late has been the notion of red flag laws
and how they are now a necessity. Without having committed a crime, without
having gone through due process, if a paper pusher on some rung of the
governmental ladder concludes that you will, at some point, be a danger to
yourself or others, then they deem it their right to do as they will, including
detainment.
My only question, the only question that is of any import, is
who determines the parameters by which one is judged as setting off one of
these red flags? Is it the same group of folks who insist that there are 73
genders, or that transgenderism is perfectly normal and not at all a mental
disorder?
Will the same people who are trying to normalize pedophilia be
in charge of determining whether or not you are mentally competent to own a
firearm?
Pardon my skepticism, but if you think this is in any way a
good idea or something to strive for, you have not thought it through, and have
no idea the can of worms this will very likely open.
Will having served in the military disqualify someone from
owning a firearm because they might have PTSD? Will believing in God disqualify
someone?
What? Too much? Farfetched? Impossible? There are current
sitting senators who insisted that supremely qualified individuals were to be
excluded from serving on the Supreme Court simply because they believed in God,
or because they were practicing Christians.
It’s all about who sets the parameters and who determines
what these red flags are. As of yet, they are ethereal, able to be whatever the
people in power decide they are, from whether you still have your wisdom teeth,
or were prescribed Ritalin when you were ten.
To say that the system will get abused is the understatement
of the century. Imagine how many disgruntled, angry, or unhinged neighbors will
be calling the hotline to report what they deem to be red flags? Imagine how
many law-abiding citizens who did nothing wrong will get visits by the police
in the middle of the night for no other reason than because pencil-pushing
dolts think they can run your life better than you can.
With love in Christ,
Michael Boldea Jr.
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