{"id":1395541,"date":"2019-04-13T20:50:45","date_gmt":"2019-04-14T02:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/?p=975402"},"modified":"2019-04-13T20:50:45","modified_gmt":"2019-04-14T02:50:45","slug":"letter-red-flag-bill-should-be-repealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/local-news\/letter-red-flag-bill-should-be-repealed\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter: Red flag bill should be repealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let\u2019s just say that this red flag bill is just that. It\u2019s a red flag for civility. It\u2019s the tail waging the dog. It\u2019s wrong on several levels. First, it presumes guilt when no crime has been committed\u2026 not unlike a Tom Cruise movie. Second, it short-circuits good background checks. Third, it ignores suspicious activities that would trigger a legitimate investigation. Fourth, it is a \u201ctell on your neighbor\u201d law in secret that can run amuck beyond guns and lacks accountability.<br \/>\nYou tell on your neighbor when you see unlawful or suspicious activities and let the police investigate. You don\u2019t humiliate your neighbors anonymously. It\u2019s not unlike harassing you neighbors with a SWAT team prank-call.<br \/>\nHow Polis rationalized this one is a mystery, unless you know who\u2019s whispering in his ear. This bill should be repealed or society will wither into a police state run by hypocrites.<br \/>\nFred Stewart,<br \/>\nGrand Junction<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/opinion\/letter-red-flag-bill-should-be-repealed\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Post Independent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let\u2019s just say that this red flag bill is just that. It\u2019s a red flag for civility. It\u2019s the tail waging the dog. It\u2019s wrong on several levels. First, it presumes guilt when no crime has been committed\u2026 not unlike a Tom Cruise movie. Second, it short-circuits good background checks. Third, it ignores suspicious activities [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[112],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1395541","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-18 15:27:50","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KKCH - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1395541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1395541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1395541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1395541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1395541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}