On the one hand I like the article's comparison to the red flag law, and it is an excellent analogy. However, so often I read articles similar to this that appear to be appealing to "authorities" to "do the right thing". IMO such articles miss the underlying reality that those authorities are not the top of the control pyramid and those who are calling the shots are psychopaths and sociopaths who lack the capacity for empathy and who's agenda is contrary to the well being of the planet. Such appeals are akin to flaying at the branches of a tree to bring it down.
Few seem to be focused on the trunk or roots, i.e. in identifying and dealing with the actual causes of tyranny and destruction in the world. Thankfully some are, such as Dana Edwards and Stephan Molyneux, who focus on how children are parented and how crucial not teaching them violence as a solution to problems is.
More abstractly but also addressing the "root" causes of societal breakdown and tyranny is the work by Larken Rose, who's book The Most Dangerous Superstition explains with factual clarity how belief in authority is the means by which the most egregious atrocities of humanity are carried out.