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Lucy McBath: “We need to push along extreme risk protection orders, ERPOs, so that we have these red flag laws to supplement the use…”

On the recordFebruary 5, 2019
We need to push along extreme risk protection orders, ERPOs, so that we have these red flag laws to supplement the use of background checks to find out if someone has a mental disturbance. This is the single most important thing that we can do in the gun control area to stop these mass shootings from happening in the first place.
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Lucy McBath
Democratic · Georgia

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McBath emphasizes the importance of extreme risk protection orders for preventing mass shootings.

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