Immediately following the Parkland mass public shooting, I
asked readers of the Liberty Takes Effort blog to ACT by contacting their
governors and state legislators to demand immediate passage of Extreme Risk
Protection Order (ERPO) laws within their states.
If you acted - great.
I am going to ask you to do more to protect children in our schools. If you did not – you can jump on board now.
The fatal shooting of 10 and wounding of 14 at Santa Fe High
School in Texas last week is just one more warning that this can happen
anywhere.
Florida passed an ERPO law within weeks of the Parkland mass
public shooting. Reasonable people
demanded reasonable action and reasonable elected officials acted. Florida’s new law has been used several
times already to intervene and separate a person at the intersection of
dangerousness and fire arm access.
Vermont and Rhode Island recently passed ERPO laws and 20
additional states are considering them (AK, AL, AZ, HI, IA, IL, MA [legislature
voting very soon], ME, MI, MN, MS, NJ, NV, NY, OR, PA, TN, TX, VA, WY.) Is your state listed? Is it not?
Have you expressed your opinion to your state legislator and governor? Have you encouraged your family and friends
to take action? Waiting for the next
election is not the answer!