A gun violence restraining order (GVRO), or sometimes a gun violence protective order, is based on a familiar model: the domestic restraining order. As the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence explains, GVROs “allow families and household members, as well as law enforcement officers, to petition a court to remove a person’s access to guns if he or she poses an imminent danger to self or others.”
The Parkland massacre makes the utility of GVROs excruciatingly obvious, suggests A. Barton Hinkle. Another advantage? GVROs do not constitute “collective punishment.”
Arguments about constitutionality and effectiveness are worth having, writes Hinkle. But Americans should not let their disagreements about other measures stand in the way of the things that (a) are constitutional, (b) would be effective, and (c) both sides can agree on.
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