A good place to spend the money would be on boosting local “red flag” programs to seize guns from people judged by a court to be a threat, columnist George Skelton writes.
Gov. Gavin Newsom whirled around the state last week unveiling one big-bucks program after another as part of his $100-billion “California Comeback Plan.”In Oakland, a CalVIP group is tipped by police or a hospital when a gunshot victim is admitted to an emergency room. Trained staffers go talk to the wounded victim, family and friends — often gang members.“We try to talk them down and head off retaliation,” says Anne Marks, executive director of Youth Alive in Oakland.
There’s also $10 million in grants to help local law enforcement accomplish what the state has fallen down on: confiscating guns illegally owned by bad guys. “I’m going to rename the Department of Justice the department of excuses,” says Sen. Jim Nielsen . “They don’t make APPS a priority. It’s as simple as that.”“It’s a top priority,” Bonta insists. “I want to prove they’re wrong.”Also, there’s virtually nothing in the budget for red flag laws aimed at confiscating guns from people — such as the San Jose shooter — suspected of being armed and dangerous. The program relies on snitching by family members, co-workers or exes.
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