VA-ALERT: VCDL Legislative Action Item 2/17/22 - Red Flag repeal

 

Virginia Citizens Defense League

Defending Your Right to Defend Yourself

HB 509, Delegate Marie March’s bill to repeal Virginia’s Red Flag law, has cleared the House and is now in the Senate.  You need to contact your Senator to support HB 509.

Click the following link to send a pre-written, but editable, email to your senator.  It will also give you the option of calling your Senator and leaving a message:  https://oneclickpolitics.global.ssl.fastly.net/promo/44f

 

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Subject: SUPPORT HB 509

Message:

As a constituent, protect my rights and SUPPORT HB 509, Delegate March's bill to repeal “Red Flag” Substantial Risk Orders (SROs).

SROs don’t provide any help for a person in mental health crisis, including any person who may be suicidal. SROs only confiscate that person’s firearms.  

There is NO evidence that SROs do anything to prevents suicides (see RAND Corporation study: rand.org/research/gun-policy/analysis/extreme-risk-protection-orders/suicide.html) and SROs violate federal law - Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act.  Making matters worse, SROs do not give the accused an opportunity to refute the accusations against them for two weeks!  

If defenders of SROs are sincere in wanting to help those who may be suicidal, there is a much better way to do so:

Virginia’s Emergency Custody Orders (ECOs) and Temporary Detention Orders (TDOs), as provided under Chapter 8 of Title 37.2 of the Code of Virginia, have existed for years and DO get a person in crisis help.  ECOs and TDOs have the person taken to a mental health facility and only take away a person’s right to possess firearms if a medical examination determines that the person actually does need help.

Let me know how you are going to vote on HB 509.

 

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