The Main Governor enacted a law on Wednesday, stating that he would prevent dangerous people from keeping weapons and strengthen mental health services to help prevent future tragedies such as Leviston Mass Shooting that shook the state.
The village. Janet Mills, a Democrat, called for a change in a speech in January, which came three months after killing 18 people in the worst mass shooting of an army reservoir. Before the shooting, the reservoir had a sigh of mental illness and irregular behavior.
Mills said that his proposals have extensive support for such changes, which will also set up a violence-Roktham program in the Main Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Proposals will need to find support with high percentage of gun ownership than the Northeast in a state.
“They are practical, general knowledge measures which are main-made and correct for our culture and our long-term traditions, meeting today. They represent meaningful progress, without trampling someone’s rights, and they will better protect public safety, ”Mills said.
One of the Mills’ proposals will strengthen the state’s extreme risk protection order law. Some law enforcement personnel have stated that the state’s yellow flag law made it difficult to remove the weapons of the shooter Robert card despite a clear warning indications. Mills stated that its change would allow law enforcement to a dangerous person to seek a protective custody warrant to detain weapons to remove arms.
Another proposal will increase the National Instant Criminal background check system to private sales of firearms. Nevertheless, another unknown, will encourage checks for private sales.
Mills said that the proposal would also establish a statewide network of crisis, so that the person suffering from mental health crisis can take care of fast, Mills said.
The governor’s complement budget includes the response to the crisis and other proposals based on mental health. It also proposes to create a main mass violence care fund with $ 5 million to cover physical and mental health expenses associated with a large -scale violence incident and has not been covered by insurance.
The Democratic Rape said, “The tough medical process of our community will continue in the future for a long time, and it will provide people with this support when they are required,” said Democratic rape.
The main gunman opened fire on 25 October in a bowling street and restaurant in Leviston. He was later found dead by a self-imposed gun bullet.
He was well known for law enforcement for months before the firing, and an fellow reservoir told an army superior that he was “going to do Snap and a collective shooting.”