Letter: Protective order bill deserves a hearing

According to a recent poll, 68 percent of Utahns support extreme risk protective orders (ERPOs) that would allow family members and police to ask a judge to temporarily remove firearms from someone who has threatened suicide or who poses an immediate threat to others.Yet zero legislators have formally debated an ERPO bill — House Bill 209 — introduced by Rep. Steve Handy, and zero Utahns have testified for or against the bill because it is languishing in the House Rules Committee. Th