Despite that incident, there’s no public record that prosecutors sought any felony kidnapping and menacing charges against Aldrich, or that police or relatives tried to trigger Colorado’s red flag law that would have allowed authorities to seize the weapons and ammo the man’s mother says he had with him.
“I’m saddened that, as a local elected official, I’m even faced with a resolution to affirm a right that was guaranteed in our constitution,” Commissioner Cami Bremerin 2019. “I honestly believe that this bill was crafted by well-meaning people, but that does not make it a good bill.” “[These resolutions] create a mental stumbling block where someone might think ‘oh, we can’t do that here’ because the community doesn’t support it,” Knoepke said of the local implementation of red flag laws. “Law enforcement may think that they live in a place where [ERPO petitions] wouldn’t adhere to community norms and standards and I think there’s some of that at play here.”
This is what dangerous Christian Nationalism does. It's heading to Australia. In fact, it's already arrived.