Originally Posted by 45_100
Red flag laws are unconstitutional for several reasons. You are assumed quilty when someone makes the accusation and then must prove your innocence. Even if you are completely cooperative and hand over all your firearms there is no guarantee you will get them back once the issue is resolved in your favor. LE will go through your guns and take what they want. The rest will be destroyed or lost and when you go to pick them up, they won't return them, you will be told sorry Charlie.

People get emotional about their firearms, not because of the firearm itself, but because of the memories associated with them. Hunts with your grandfather or you dad. Days spent in the field and conversations with good friends. As we get older we enjoy looking at our guns and remembering days gone by. For some those days are over and no more memories will be made.

The same is not true of hammers and drills.

Beyond that, they represent your status as a free citizen of a free nation. Disarming a free man is to make him a slave, and our instinct as Americans is to resist enslavement, even to the point of death.