Students join push to get guns away from people who could pose threat :: WRAL.com

By Laura Leslie, WRAL Capitol Bureau chiefRaleigh, N.C. — Student advocates joined state lawmakers Tuesday to call for North Carolina to join the growing number of states that have adopted laws to get guns away from people who pose a threat to themselves or others. A member of the March for Our Lives movement that grew out of the mass shooting at a Parkland, Fla., high school last year, Greensboro high school student Nico Gleason has started Lobby for Our Lives in North Carolina. He said students need to start a conversation with lawmakers. "Stop focusing on those extremes on either side, those extreme bills – let's arm everyone or or let's take away all guns," Gleason said. "I think we really need to start talking about how we can meet in the middle." So-called "red flag" laws, also referred to as extreme risk protective orders, are a good example, he said. The laws allow family members or law enforcement to ask a judge to temporarily remove a person's firearms if the judge deems them an imminent public threat. The person would have a hearing within 10 days to determine if the order is lifted, and it would be a misdemeanor to falsely report someone. Rep. Marcia Morey, D-Durham, filed a similar bill last year[1] in the wake of the Parkland shooting, but she said public support for the idea is growing as the gun violence death toll climbs higher. "Every day we're seeing reports – not only the mass shootings but also the aftermath," Morey said. "We learned this week that three people have committed suicide as a result of Parkland and also a father at Sandy Hook [Elementary School in Connecticut, the site of a 2012 mass shooting]. This affects everybody." Two-thirds of all gun deaths are

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