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Feds Reveal Orwellian “RED FLAG” Center

Day and night I think about the awful direction our country is headed in—I lose sleep over it. This is not an embellishment.

I worry about future generations. I worry about the type of country my younger siblings will inherit. I Worry about my friends and family, I worry about the entire thing.

America is quickly descending into the territory of the banana republic, but this isn’t nearly the worst of it.

Think of the race to get to the banana republic as a rush to get to a one-way train station that straight up leads to the concentration camps of the Third Reich or the Gulags of the fallen Soviet Empire.

Living in a third-world dictatorship is bad, living under a mass-murdering totalitarian regime is even worse.

The federal government recently announced a new Orwellian initiative called the “National Extreme Risk Protection Order Resource Center.”

This new initiative seeks to further erode the Second Amendment by allowing a massive extension of existing “red flag” laws to keep firearms out of the hands of certain individuals.

The feds claim this is to keep guns out of the hands of mentally disturbed individuals and those who may pose a risk to themselves and others.

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Of course, the order did not go into further detail and did not really specify what those words meant.

This essentially means that the federal government will use this to keep guns out of the hands of anyone they don’t like—Catholic parents and concerned PTA members come to mind.

If you were wondering why I used an image of the Auschwitz concentration camp as the photo for this article, it is because it is only a short way from the confiscation of guns to the concentration camp.

Virtually every ‘leader’ in the 20th Century confiscated firearms before slaughtering millions of innocent people—never give up your guns. If the feds tell you not to have them, buy two more.

Our liberties and rights are not up for debate. They are God-given. Protect them by the ballot or the bullet. Not much more needs to be said on this point.

Rep. Thomas Massie, one of the handful of honorable politicians in our country, recoiled from the Orwellian announcement:

“What the hell is this evil? A Federal Red Flag center; We did not authorize this. Announced, of course, just hours after the omnibus passes.”

The Department of Justice issued this PR statement on the creation of their gun-grabbing program:

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The Justice Department launched the National Extreme Risk Protection Order (ERPO) Resource Center (the Center) which will provide training and technical assistance to law enforcement officials, prosecutors, attorneys, judges, clinicians, victim service and social service providers, community organizations, and behavioral health professionals responsible for implementing laws designed to keep guns out of the hands of people who pose a threat to themselves or others.

“The launch of the National Extreme Risk Protection Order Resource Center will provide our partners across the country with valuable resources to keep firearms out of the hands of individuals who pose a threat to themselves or others,” said Attorney General Merrick B. Garland.

“The establishment of the Center is the latest example of the Justice Department’s work to use every tool provided by the landmark Bipartisan Safer Communities Act to protect communities from gun violence.”

ERPO laws, which are modeled off domestic violence protection orders, create a civil process allowing law enforcement, family members (in most states), and medical professionals or other groups (in some states) to petition a court to temporarily prohibit someone at risk of harming themselves or others from purchasing and possessing firearms for the duration of the order.

In 2023, the Justice Department’s Office of Justice Programs (OJP) awarded $238 million to states, territories, and the District of Columbia under the Byrne State Crisis Intervention Program (SCIP), which was created by the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act and is designed to help jurisdictions implement crisis intervention strategies, including ERPO programs.

In addition, OJP awarded $4 million to support training and technical assistance under Byrne SCIP, including $2 million that was awarded to the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions to establish the ERPO Resource Center.

In collaboration with OJP’s Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), the Center will support states, local governments, law enforcement, prosecutors, attorneys, judges, clinicians, victim service providers, and behavioral health and other social service providers in their efforts to implement ERPO programs to fit local needs, share resources and promising practices with the field, and help ensure that funding received through Byrne SCIP is effectively utilized.

“Supporting our law enforcement and community partners in curbing the scourge of gun violence is more critical than ever,” said Acting Associate Attorney General Benjamin C. Mizer.

“In addition to other resources leveraged across the Justice Department, this Center will provide communities with new tools and technical assistance to help them implement effective crisis intervention strategies and reduce gun violence.”

“OJP’s investment in ERPO programs demonstrates the Department’s commitment to addressing the gun violence crisis in the United States,” said OJP Assistant Attorney General Amy L. Solomon.

“This crisis cannot be solved at one level of government. We must use all of our resources and collaborate at the federal, state, and local levels to find innovative, evidence-based, and holistic solutions to help keep American communities safe.”

Through the Center and its newly launched website, states, local governments, law enforcement, prosecutors, attorneys, judges, clinicians, victim service providers, and behavioral health and other social service providers will have direct access to critical information that will enhance their ability to reduce firearm homicides and suicides.

The website will be maintained and updated to include newly developed resources for the field created through the Center, in partnership with BJA.

The website also provides a platform for the Center to highlight emerging and promising practices in successful ERPO implementation and connect states and localities to innovative strategies to reduce gun violence and save lives.

As of this month, 21 states and the District of Columbia have enacted ERPO laws. Successful and effective ERPO implementation requires a comprehensive and holistic approach that incorporates a wide range of stakeholders. The Center is designed to provide resources consistent with that need.

MAGA patriots and those loyal to the Constitution of the United States railed against what can rightly be called the “greatest attack on the Second Amendment in U.S. History,” as Katie Daviscourt states.

Newsweek featured MAGA firebrand Marjorie Taylor Greene’s response to the newly announced National Extreme Risk Protection Order Resource Center:

“Merrick Garland just announced a massive Red Flag Operation that the DOJ will be running by using EVERY spy tool the US government has in order to violate American’s Second Amendment!!” the congresswoman wrote on Saturday.

“This comes right after [House Speaker Mike] Johnson fully funded [President Joe] Biden’s weaponized DOJ!”


 

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