I am a gun owner and 2nd amendment supporter. I also have mixed feelings about red flag laws. I would like to see laws amended so that those who are mentally ill can be stopped before they go out and shoot up the workplace, or whatever. In order to intervene, you would have to make sure they can't buy weapons and would have to take what they have even though they have not yet committed a crime.
I am very conflicted about this, but I am not sure how else you could stop these nuts if you are not proactively disarming them. I understand that this does not impact the majority of gun deaths and does not stop the criminal. However, WE are more in danger of having our weapons taken because of the public and spectacular nature of the shootings done by the nuts.
Of course, my first preference would be to have places to lock up the nuts...