Proceed with caution on gun red-flag laws

After rampages in El Paso, Texas, Dayton, Ohio, and Gilroy, California, American policy makers have understandably looked for ways to stop future mass shootings. It’s hard for them to achieve any form of consensus given vast philosophical differences over gun rights in particular. Most proposals run into immovable and oftentimes partisan political obstacles.
But there has been one relatively new idea that keeps getting traction among state and federal legislators and the public. That&rsquo