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In reply to the discussion: If Senate Democrats had accepted due process, we would have gun control [View all]Chan790
(20,176 posts)that is, you're presumed to be a threat based on a low-preponderance of evidence, until you're verified to not be a threat.
I know because I've had to get two TROs (one of which became a Permanent Restraining Order) in my life...one to protect me from a biological father that had tried to kill me in my sleep, long enough to pursue an appeal of a court order after a half-wit family court judge had granted him visitation because he had completed alcohol rehabilitation as a condition of a plea agreement. The second to keep away a college classmate that was stalking me and who I believed to be dangerous.
If firearm purchases were treated the same way...anybody that could not be cleared within 72 hours would be denied RKBA either temporarily or permanently. Nobody is arguing for that...it's the opposite of the outcome that RKBA activists and lawmakers want.