Our view: Jackson’s red flag orders bill preventing tragedies

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Our view: Jackson’s red flag orders bill preventing tragedies

By Editorial board and Henry Dubroff / Friday, August 23rd, 2019 / Comments Off on Our view: Jackson’s red flag orders bill preventing tragedies

Today they are called red flag orders, but they did not exist before the Isla Vista shootings on May 23, 2014. Before that horrible event in which a mentally ill 23-year-old went on a rampage before taking his own life, families had no way to seek a restraining order against a relative who they knew…

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