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"Kamala Harris announces new office to implement ‘red flag’ gun control laws"
"The White House has announced a new national office to support states implementing 'red flag' laws to combat gun violence, an initiative funded by the justice department.
The vice-president met with victims’ families – many of whom have been active in gun control advocacy since the shooting – and visited the building where 14 students and three staff members were slain...
The launch of the federal Extreme Risk Protection Order Resource Center (Erpo) follows Joe Biden’s establishment of the White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention in September, which the president tapped Harris to lead.
Operated through the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions, and paid for by a justice department grant, Erpo is designed to assist state and local governments, law enforcement, and others – including behavioral health and social service providers – 'optimize' the use of red flag laws, Harris said.
It will provide training and technical assistance, including educational opportunities and workshops 'for a wide variety of stakeholders'. But the vice-president also acknowledged that red flag laws, which facilitate the temporary removal of firearms from a person a court believes capable of harming themselves or others, are not universally popular.
Only 21 states have implemented red flag laws. And the White House said that only six of those states had taken advantage of $750m in funding that the Biden administration made available through the 2022 Bipartisan Safer Communities Act (BSCA) for crisis intervention initiatives such as red flag programs and mental health, drug and veteran treatment courts.
Harris called on the other 29 states to enact red flag laws and urged those that already have them to tap into the BSCA funds to support them.
'The shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school occurred after there were clear warning signs, but there were no tools to remove the shooter’s firearm,' a White House statement announcing the new resource office said.
'The survivors of the shooting advocated for passage of a red flag law in Florida, and the tragedy helped to inspire the passage of red flag laws in other states. These laws have been shown to prevent mass shootings and suicides, but the tools made available under these laws are only effective if people are aware of them and can properly invoke them.'"
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