After a mass shooting in Southport, North Carolina killed three people and left five others injured, North Carolina Governor Josh Stein brought up the idea of introducing red flag laws.
Red flag laws allow the government to temporarily require people to turn their guns in if their mental health may be seen as a threat. The alleged gunman in the Southport shooting is 40-year-old Nigel Edge. Edge is a Marine Corps veteran who was deployed to Iraq twice and has a history of making assassination plots.
Stein said that there are too many people who are in trouble and whose paranoia can become affected by what they read on the internet. Stein said that he wants to figure out ways to help people who might pose a risk to the community…