Tribune editorial: One small step toward gun sanity

Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune l-r "It’s a great start," said Elizabeth Love, recent West High School graduate and Utah Safe School Commissioner along with Brighton High School graduate Isaac Reese. "I hope that a special session comes out of this." The Utah Safe Schools Commission unveiled several recommendations to improve campus safety, Wednesday, June 20, 2018 during a press conference at the Utah Capitol. Very broadly, what the Utah Safe Schools Commission has done is to give voice to the common-sense realization that it is no loss of Second Amendment rights for a state to realize that not every breathing human being has a right to any sort of firearm he may be able to lay his or her (usually his) hands on at any time. One specific recommendation in the panel’s report last week is a law that would allow anyone who is aware of another person posing a credible threat to the community to go to court and get an order to confiscate any firearms in that person’s possession. Utah already allows such protective orders in a cases when a threat has been made against a specific individual. This idea would extend that category to those who pose a threat to the community more broadly. Such a bill was put before the Legislature in its last session. It failed to pass in the crush of other business but still has support among some lawmakers. It is the kind of thing that seems necessary and […]

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