• shalafi@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Started out helpful, went downhill fast.

    Do you not see the potential for abuse of red flag laws? FFS, teenagers get people “swatted” and you want trigger happy cops coming into the home of an “armed and dangerous man” to remove his guns!? Best case, only your dog gets shot. We liberals acknowledge that cops act as judge, jury and executioner, and yet, for some cases, they’re all good?

    20-years ago I had a gf drop a protective order on me. Because I dumped her. Didn’t fight it. Big mistake. When the cops didn’t arrest me on the spot, her and her boss fabricated a story claiming I violated the order. Got arrested for that one! Thank god mom was able to bum me $1,000 for a lawyer to get that charge tossed. No evidence, nothing, because it didn’t happen. Still spent a night in jail and had to fight it.

    20-years after that, my ex-wife took a clue from that story.

    “Get out of this house!”

    “I own this house too, not leaving, you can’t make me.”

    “I’ll get a restraining order.”

    “Good luck. I’ve never hit you or even threatened violence.”

    I’ll tell them you did.”

    And she did. She wanted that over my head for the child custody battle. Again, thrown out, but $8,000 and 4.5-years later I got my small children back last week. (And got married!)

    Call me a pessimist. 🤷🏻‍♂️

    Now I’m down to talk implementation, mainly that the local police have no say in it. But where are we summoning up the service to deal with such things? I’m all about listening to these ideas, but there are devils in the details.

    • prole@sh.itjust.works
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      11 months ago

      Lol… I’m not even saying I agree or disagree with you, but that is some weak sauce barely anecdotal “evidence” to use as backup for such a claim.

      Aside from the entire thing being a slippery slope argument, and completely fallacious, that’s just not how reasoning works.

    • MotoAsh@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      The potential for abuse is not a reason against the whole plan. Or should we kick you off the internet because it allows terrible people to communicate?

      Your entire general attitude is a problem.