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It is sad, and this fellow sounds like a bag of nuts. People with marginally coherent ideas have put their stamp on history for a very long time, though not always with the same impact as Gavrilo Princip.
If you witnesses a person with a chain over his shoulder filling gasoline cans and telling people he was going to chain the "doors and burn down the school and everyone in it", do you think you would shrug your shoulders and go to lunch, or would you take it as a real danger and have him stopped?
You'd probably have him stopped because your foresight would allow you to see a man with a terrible plan going about his plan. You probably would not petition a judge for a hearing later in the day that would result in an order served even later. You might call the police instead.
The red flag law isn't made to address a particularly imminent danger. Instead it is constructed to free the state from the ordinary protections of legal process. That isn't a step forward.
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