BEWARE! THE FLORIDA SENATE IS TAKING AWAY YOUR RIGHT TO DUE PROCESS! Will your state be next??

[Patty]

Here’s the first sentence in the MARJORY STONEMAN DOUGLAS HIGH SCHOOL PUBLIC SAFETY ACT that the Florida senate secretly debated Saturday night “Authorizes a law enforcement officer who is taking a person into custody for an involuntary examination under the Baker Act to seize and hold a firearm or ammunition from the person for at least 72 hours, or until the person appears at the agency to retrieve the firearm or ammunition.”
This vague clause CAN be interpreted any way a police agency wants! The guns are registered so does this law about to be passed give the police the right to search the house, storage shed, and any other property that this mentally ill person owns or rents WITHOUT a search warrant? What about the guns in the house owned by other “sane” people – can the police seize your weapons in the name of PUBLIC SAFTEY? Remember once they enter your house and search without a warrant, they can find evidence related to any other crime.
This law is so vague. We have already seen how a police department and Florida county looks the other way and doesn’t report student crimes on campus to obtain federal money YET we are going to allow the Florida legislature under republican leaders to put our RIGHT to due process, our RIGHT to legal search and seizure and our RIGHTS under the second amendment into the hands of law enforcement and give them broad powers in the name of “PUBLIC SAFETY”? Police departments across the state WILL interpret this law vaguely requiring courts to determine the meaning of the law. This issue will be tied up in the court system for years as the police still continue their practices of seizing guns for safety! AND can you guarantee that the courts will rule with us?
CALL and email EVERY state legislator in the Florida house and senate. THE SENATE IS VOTING ON THIS TOMORROW MONDAY MARCH 5th!
These are reactionary measures that take away OUR Constitutional rights because these legislators are unable to critically think through issues and are scared of a bunch of immature kids! Remember a policeman is just the first step in a Baker Act – the person MUST be reviewed by a trained, licensed professional to determine if they meet involuntary status YET the police have already seized guns. Also police are used to transport patients Baker Acted at other facilities like a psychiatric office so they are not the one writing the Baker Act BUT once they have the person and the Baker Act in their hands, do they now have the rights to enter their property and seize their guns as well? Go read the Florida Mental Health Act – there are pages of rules and most patients are changed to voluntary status and never go before a judge, YET this republican led legislature wants to give ALL the powers to the police who are not even trained doctors or psychiatric professionals. And this has huge potential for abuse - you are improperly Baker Acted and your guns are seized, property illegally searched BEFORE a licensed professional even evaluates you and deems you competent and the police made a mistake!
Make your voice heard – YOU are the voter! We live in an unsafe world and seizing guns will NOT improve the school’s safety when the classroom doors are still unlocked, crime is not written up, gates are left unlocked and students leave campus during classes to go to Starbuck’s. Anything can become a weapon – taking guns is NOT the solution! There’s a reason these kids don’t want their backpacks searched – what are they bringing into the schools – drugs can lead to violence just like guns do!
The US Supreme Court has ruled that Constitutional rights for students are limited on school property and school events. YET this legislature ignores school safety measures that are known to work like metal detectors and mandatory backpack checks and even locking the gates BUT instead proposes seizing OUR guns and taking away our Constitutional rights through police departments that can potentially be corrupt and acting for political gain!
Here’s the FL senate version of the MARJORY STONEMAN DOUGLAS HIGH SCHOOL PUBLIC SAFETY ACT
http://www.flsenate.gov/Media/PressReleases/Show/2872
Here’s the list of FL senators and representatives and their phone numbers. MOST aren’t answering the phones and their staff has never learned how to write a comment on paper so click on a name and click on “email this senator” and OVERWHLEM their offices with REAL VOTER comments!
http://www.flsenate.gov/Senators/#Senators

https://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Representatives/representat...
****And make sure you email Canadian carpetbagger Corcoran and tell him he will NEVER be governor of Florida when he does NOTHING except take away our rights under the Constitution!!!!******
https://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Representatives/details.asp...
Here’s the Florida Mental Health Act if you want to educate yourself:
http://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Stat...