California's 'red flag' law hasn't lived up to its promise, George Skelton writes, because people are reluctant to report dangerous gun owners and police often don't want to confiscate guns.
If we really want to reduce mass shootings — all gun violence — we’ve got to become snitches on our co-workers, family members and maybe exes.
Cops can investigate and find out whether they’re gun owners. A judge can order that their weapons be temporarily seized pending a court hearing. If they’re deemed a danger to themselves or others, their guns then can be confiscated for up to a year or more.That’s possible under California’s “red flag” law. Repetitive domestic violence, for example, can be a red flag.
Surviving co-workers at the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority described the shooter as a loner. One said he had “gone off” on managers about three weeks before the killings.
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