Vermont's Red Flag Law (NPR Story this morning)

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If someone is that dangerous where someone is telling a judge that said person is going to kill me or shoot up a school then why would they not lock them up too rather than just confiscate guns they find?

Ironically they don't to violate their civil rights by sticking them in jail. And we don't really do mental health in this country anymore so there is nowhere to commit them. I live in a metro area that has about 250,000 people living in it. There is one mental hospital with 50 beds. The next closest mental hospital is about 100 miles away in a metro area of about 1,000,000 with a 150 bed hospital. These are of course constantly full. There isn't anywhere to put people with mental illnesses.