DeSantis wants to repeal the red flag law. What is it?

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The law was passed after the 2018 school shooting in Parkland.

After 17 students and teachers were massacred in one of the nation’s deadliest school shootings, their families begged Florida lawmakers for change.

Legislators, some of whom had walked through bloody halls at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, put together a bipartisan gun safety package that then-Gov. Rick Scott signed into law, breaking Florida away from the National Rifle Association.

Now, seven years after that shooting and the bill’s passage, Gov. Ron DeSantis wants to repeal one of its key tenets: the red flag law.

The goal of the law is to let courts consider and authorize the seizure of guns from people who pose a threat to themselves or others.

But DeSantis, on the first day of Florida’s legislative session this week, raised the idea of repealing it. He has said he thinks the law violates people’s rights.

https://www.tampabay.com/news/florida-politics/2025/03/06/florida-red-flag-gun-parkland-msd-douglas-shooting-desantis/

Yes, it violates the rights of people who plan to commit mass murder.