I advocate red flag laws with robust due process protections. I am not trying to "punish law abiding citizens". That ridiculous trope has been transformed into a perpetual whine from gun owners over the least little thing the community might want to do to address suicides and domestic violence.
It's nor ridiculous and it's not a trope. That's just you're way of avoiding the reality of the Red Flag laws...reality being they don't work and are abused for personal vendettas.
Suicides and domestic violence? When the hell did this come up in the discussion?
Ok...I'll play along. Tell me counselor how many instances of domestic violence and suicides have the already enacted red flag laws stopped?
I'll ask you again since you've ducked it on this issue before...how do you know that a person's weapons seized in his home under one of these unconstitutional laws are the only ones he/she owns? What's to stop the person from keeping a gun or two in a location only known to them?
Lets take this a step further. Lets say you get all the firearms out of the house of someone who's been served under one of these Red Flag laws...what's to stop them from doing whatever they intended to do with a knife? Again an instance where the Red Flag laws...in addition to being unconstitutional are completely useless in preventing violence. I've got a couple of knives I carried on deployment that are more than capable of doing serious damage to someone were I to deploy them in a violent manner.
It's a feel good measure for the "do something" crowd.