305 - "Red Flag" Laws: Extreme Risk Protection Orders and What Went Wrong in Indiana
Public Health On Call
The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
4.6 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2021
⏱️ 14 minutes
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The recent mass shooting in Indianapolis sparked a national conversation about "red flag" laws, or Extreme Risk Protection Orders. Dr. Josh Sharfstein talks with Dr. Shannon Frattaroli of the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Prevention and Policy, and Josh Horwitz of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence about ERPOs and what went wrong in Indiana, and what needs to be done to implement laws effectively that keep firearms from people at high risk of harming themselves or others.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Season 3, a Public Health On Call, a podcast from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. |
| 0:12.3 | I'm Josh Sharfstein, Vice Dean for Public Health Practice and Community Engagement, and a former secretary of Maryland's Health Department. |
| 0:19.6 | Our goal is to bring scientific evidence |
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| 0:39.0 | at jhh.edu. That's public health question at jh.edu for future podcast episodes. |
| 0:46.6 | Today, our topic is the recent mass shooting in Indianapolis and what it means for the national |
| 0:52.4 | discussion of so-called red flag laws. |
| 0:55.9 | In March 2020, the suspect's mother called the police out of concern for his safety |
| 1:01.2 | and the police took away his shotgun. However, just a few months later, the suspect was able to |
| 1:07.9 | purchase additional firearms that he used in the shooting. |
| 1:12.4 | Indiana has a so-called red flag law that allows a court to prohibit gun purchase for people in crisis. |
| 1:20.2 | So what happened? I speak with two experts on these laws, |
| 1:24.5 | Josh Horwitz of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence and Shannon |
| 1:28.3 | Frederoly of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. |
| 1:32.5 | Let's listen. |
| 1:33.8 | Josh Horwitz and Shannon Federoli, thank you so much for joining me on the podcast to talk |
| 1:39.1 | about something that's in the news, which is this horrible mass shooting in Indianapolis. |
| 1:47.0 | And the fact that while the alleged perpetrator had his gun taken away, he was then able to get more guns. |
| 1:57.7 | And this is being discussed in the context of Indiana's so-called red flag law. So maybe |
| 2:04.1 | I'll start with you, Josh. Could you explain what this focus on this Indiana law is about? |
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