Dems want Colorado Red Flag Law

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Originally Posted by Eric P

Reporters should be held accountable for false and/or harassing reports. Should be able to be sued for damages and emotional distress over losing one's rights for self protection and legal process.

Reporting should not be anonymous, and shall be forced to appear to testify under oath.

But the whole law is bull.

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Like filing a restraining order.

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Originally Posted by Irving

Like filing a restraining order.

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Yup, absolutely useless.

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Originally Posted by roberth

Yup, absolutely useless.

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That's not at all what I meant. If you file a restraining order against someone, it affects you as well.

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Originally Posted by Irving

That's not at all what I meant. If you file a restraining order against someone, it affects you as well.

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I haven't filed one or had one filed on me so please forgive my ignorance.

Does the filer have constraints to abide by as well?

Yeah, if you file a restraining order against someone, you can't have guns either. Or so I thought.

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Originally Posted by Irving

Those warning that liberals would abuse this law and don't think that conservatives would do the very same are living in la la land.

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Originally Posted by Irving

I'm not talking about parties, I'm talking about individual people.

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Really? You think people on the right would use this law to harass people on the left? I find that preposterous but maybe our definitions of conservative are different, unless you're talking about nazis which alot of people think are right-wing but nazis are actually left-wing.

While it is true that the modern day liberal is a mental defective I'd be hard-pressed to prove that in a court of law but there I go again with due process and such.

No, I think people on the right would use this law to harass anyone that they didn't like; just the same as anyone else would. I've seen it before first hand. The idea that a voting record or a set of beliefs makes a person more or less moral is batshit crazy and I can't believe that any adults that have experienced the world would believe that for one second.

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Originally Posted by Irving

Yeah, if you file a restraining order against someone, you can't have guns either. Or so I thought.

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That makes no sense.

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Originally Posted by CavSct1983

That makes no sense.

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It doesn't make sense. Like roberth, I've never filed a restraining order either (a large reason being what I posted about), so I don't know 100%. I remember a lot of talk about it on here several years ago and that is where I've gotten that impression.

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Originally Posted by Irving

It doesn't make sense. Like roberth, I've never filed a restraining order either (a large reason being what I posted about), so I don't know 100%. I remember a lot of talk about it on here several years ago and that is where I've gotten that impression.

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The form for it explains clearly what a TRO does.

Now, of course, there is an onus on the Petitioner to not violate the order themselves by seeking to contact or otherwise cause a violation on the part of the Respondent, but the Petitioner is not otherwise impacted according to the form itself:

https://www.courts.state.co.us/Forms...on%20Order.pdf

If I'm wrong, I'd like someone to point to the law as such in black and white. Otherwise, it seems ridiculous even for this very ridiculous state.