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Gun Control & RKBA

MarvinGardens

(779 posts)

2. There should be due process.

Reply to gejohnston (Reply #1)

Wed Aug 7, 2019, 04:34 PM

Aug 2019

And the less of that there is, the more temporary it should be. 48 hour "psych holds" that the police or doctors can initiate, and civil committment, are not criminal due process, but can still deprive a person of their liberty to protect them and others.

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Clear violation of the Fifth Amendment, gejohnston Aug 2019 #1

There should be due process. MarvinGardens Aug 2019 #2

this is a case of removing property gejohnston Aug 2019 #3

The idiocy of two laymen arguing the Constitution as if they are flamin lib Aug 2019 #4

probable cause, gejohnston Aug 2019 #5

Looks like facts in this case don't do what the doctrinaire wanted them to do friendly_iconoclast Aug 2019 #6

No, the difference is the degree of arrogance it takes to compare an flamin lib Aug 2019 #7

let me not be passive agressive gejohnston Aug 2019 #8

I give up. You were once worthy of my attention but flamin lib Aug 2019 #9

You are projecting gejohnston Aug 2019 #10

You *have* repeatedly demonstrated poor research, lack of logic, and promulagted untruth... friendly_iconoclast Aug 2019 #11