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A young, white gunman鈥檚 killing of three Black people over the weekend in Jacksonville, Florida, is again raising questions about so-called red flag laws

The Justice Department is sending out more than $200 million to help states and the District of Columbia administer 鈥渞ed-flag laws鈥� and other crisis-intervention programs.

As a national debate rages over gun laws after last month鈥檚 mass shooting at a Texas elementary school, proponents of 鈥渞ed-flag鈥� policies point to a Florida law as a model for states seeking to strip deadly weapons from people who could cause harm.

Early negotiations have found bipartisan support for incentivizing states to pass laws that let authorities seize guns from individuals found to be a danger to themselves or others.

The Biden administration is trying to make it easier for states to make laws that temporarily remove guns from people deemed to be a danger to themselves or others.

Every Jan. 1, states across the country implement new laws. Some groundbreaking new laws address Internet user privacy and the classification of contract workers in California, for example.

Florida has taken guns away from 2,000 residents in the year and a half since the state passed its Red Flag law, but while advocates tout the measure鈥檚鈥�

The bills being considered by the U.S. House would limit access to high-capacity gun magazines and block any person convicted of a hate crime from obtaining a firearm.

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Florida adopted a red flag law last year after the shooting that killed 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Since then, courts there have approved about 2,500 risk protection orders.

People are hotly divided about many gun restrictions 鈥� but not on extreme risk protection orders. They allow police to temporarily take guns from people seen to be a risk to themselves or others.

"There is a mental illness problem that has to be dealt with. It's not the gun that pulls the trigger 鈥� it's the person holding the gun," Trump said to a standing ovation.