Gun owners, van Beek said, are "guilty until proven innocent" under this framework. "The Red Flag Law can remind one, of the movie 'Minority Report'; regulating against what we think someone might do," van Beek wrote. Just a possible overreach of well-meaning citizens, with no infrastructure for addressing the primary intention of the law: mental health as it relates to public safety." However, van Beek explicitly stopped short of declaring sanctuary county status, and suggested his office would enforce the law. Pelle’s son, a Douglas County sheriff’s deputy, was wounded in the shooting that killed Parrish.

Source: Fox News April 14, 2019 13:49 UTC