Include stiff penalties and fines for false or malicious reporting. That should stop a lot of that.
Yeah, that'll bring the people shot by police while responding to someone breaking their door down at 5Am with a gun in their hand back to life.
I think gun owners, and I’m one of them, would want some mechanism in law, similar to protective orders legislation, to identify individuals—those who have a history of violent ideation or actions, or history of severe mental illness, but could possibly fall through the cracks in current law—who should never be allowed to own a revolver much less a semi automatic.
People with a history of violent (chargeable) actions up to and in cluding (horrors) shouting at their spouse may well already be tagged as 'violent offenders' and are already denied their gun Rights. So are those who have been involuntarily committed for mental disorders.
Red flag laws have the very real potential to take that to the he said/she said level of Facebook, Snapchat, and other nonsense which exposes any gun owner to vindictive accusations from anyone.
The very first thing I learned as a youngster, before I ever touched a gun, was safety. I think it would reflect well on gun owners to support responsible gun ownership.
We learned gun safety, too. Hunting from the age of 9, deer and ducks, and ever with the knowledge that a negligent discharge would cost us that privilege for a year. There were no negligentdischarges among those of under 18, only one adult (smug pr*ck named Kissenger, whom I immediately did not like, down from DC to hunt with a family friend) had one. (Blew a 12 ga. hole through the hardtop of his new GTO, was promptly taken back to DC and never seen among us again).
I am all for responsible gun ownership, but establishing rules which irresponsibly endanger millions of gun owners and subject them to capricious harassment, and possibly lethal confrontations with LEOs which are unwarranted and unnecessary is not a responsible response to the actions of a couple of nutcases.