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    George Skelton: Red flag laws stop shootings, a lesson Maine could have learned from California

    by George Skelton, Los Angeles Times Nov 07, 2023 3 minutes
    A member of the Trauma Services team helps clean up the Schemengees Bar, where one of two mass shootings took place on Oct. 29, 2023, in Lewiston, Maine.

    SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The disturbed gunman who killed 18 people and wounded 13 others in Lewiston, Maine, probably could not have committed his mass shooting in California. That's because our "red flag" law surely would have prevented the massacre.

    This is the opinion of state Attorney General Rob Bonta and UC firearms researcher Garen Wintemute. Their reasoning makes sense.

    California's red flag law enables family members, domestic partners, fearful exes, co-workers and teachers to report someone who's acting scary — maybe threatening to shoot up a place. Cops will investigate and a

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