Part of the problem with the "Red Flag" laws is the ex parte aspect of it.  The person who is the subject of the petition doesn't have an opportunity to defend herself.

Exactly.

So, a number of states have so-called Red Flag laws which remove guns from people who are somehow deemed a threat to themselves or others.

All they do is take away the girl's firearms?  That's it?

If these people really are threats to themselves or others, why don't they take other actions?  Of course, that leads to questions about what else can they do?

I've read the Massachusetts law and that's all I could find in the law, but I'm not a lawyer, I don't play one on TV, and I didn't stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.  Do the "Red Flag" laws in other states provide anything meaningful?

No. 

Ask yourself this question.  What does it take to enact a “red flag” law, and why don’t other laws apply?

Our judicial rights are explicit. “Innocent until proven guilty”.  How does enacting a law to prevent “what someone may do” comply with judicial rights?

Perhaps some day, they will make a prison cell that doesn’t have something high enough from which you can hang yourself. Especially for those on suicide watch.

What a fucking joke.

 I typically don't follow Ann Coulter, but she was right on this one.    https://summit.news/2019/07/25/ann-coulter-get-epstein-to-a-super-max-prison-before-he-is-suicided/

Um, yea.

Nothing to see here!

https://lauraloomer.us/2019/08/08/exclusive-peter-strzok-lawsuit-reveals-he-had-28-year-on-paper-army-career-while-working-at-fbi-cia/#.XU3ryLpOnYW

Very interesting read.  The more that comes to light, the more it becomes obvious as to who was behind this whole mess (hint: initials BHO)

  Again, my problem was more with the fact he said there were three genders.  WTF was he talking about?

Oh, that's just wacky creepy Uncle Joe.........You know, the guy that can make racist remarks, grope women, etc.........

I thought this was supposed to be a joke thread.

A mother and father take their 6-year old son to a family nude beach. As the boy walks along the sand, he notices that many of the women have boobs bigger than his mother’s, so he goes back to ask her why.
She tells her son, “The bigger they are, the sillier the lady is.”
The boy, pleased with the answer, goes to play in the ocean but returns to tell his mother that many of the men have larger things than his dad does.She replies,
“The bigger they are, the dumber the man is”.

Again satisfied with her answer, the boy goes back to the ocean to play. Shortly thereafter, the boy returns and promptly tells his mother:
“Daddy is talking to the silliest lady on the beach, and the longer he talks, the dumber he gets”.

THE NEW  ANT and the Grasshopper
This one is a little different.
Two Different Versions …   Two Different Morals

OLD VERSION

The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.
 The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.
Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed.
The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.
MORAL OF THE OLD STORY:

Be responsible for yourself

MODERN VERSION

The ant works hard in the withering heat and the rain all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper  thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.

Come winter, the shivering grasshopper  calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while he is cold and starving..
 CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, and ABC show up to  provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food. 
America is stunned by the sharp contrast. How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?

Kermit the Frog   appears on Oprah with the grasshopper and everybody cries when they sing, ‘It’s Not Easy Being Green’

Occupy the Anthill stages  a demonstration in front of the ant’s house where the news stations film the Black Lives Matter group singing, We shall overcome.

Then Reverend Al Sharpton has the group kneel down to pray for the grasshopper while he damns the ants. He later appears on MSNBC to complain that rich people do not care.
Former President Obama condemns the ant and blames Donald Trump, President Bush 43, President Bush 41, President Reagan, Christopher Columbus, and the Pope for the grasshopper’s plight.
 

Nancy Pelosi & Chuck Schumer exclaim in an interview on The View that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and both call for an immediate tax hike on the ant leaving him nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the Government Green Czar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez  and given to the grasshopper.

The story ends as we see the grasshopper and his free-loading friends finishing up the last bits of the ant’s food while the government house he is in, which, as you recall, just happens to be the ant’s old house, crumbles around them because the grasshopper doesn’t maintain it.
 The ant has disappeared in the snow, never to be seen again.

The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident, and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize the ramshackle, once prosperous and peaceful, neighborhood.
The entire Nation collapses bringing the rest of the free world with it.