Dennis Henigan of the Brady Campaign, a supposed constitutional lawyer, supports the Lautenburg bill, a bill that strips rights from people who have not been charged with any crime. He openly admits that tens of thousands of innocent people are on these secret lists and that innocents will continue to have their rights stripped from them but that's OK he claims. They can get it fixed later. You know, after the fact.
If the Lautenberg/King approach were to become law, there would no doubt be some mistakes made, in which gun sales are blocked due to incorrect information, mistaken identities, or other problems. Recognizing that no public policy applied in the real world is perfect, the Lautenberg/King legislation provides for mechanisms to correct such mistakes while making it harder for terrorist suspects to arm themselves.
So to answer his question: Are these problems with the existing list a good reason to oppose closing the "terror gap" on gun sales?
Yes Dennis. It is. For you to think otherwise shows just how desperate your organization and people like you are to do anything you can to disarm the public.
Now answer my question. If all these people are considered so dangerous that they can't board aircraft or own firearms, why aren't they in custody?
5 comments:
If you're still denying that the 2nd Amendment protects an individual right to keep and bear arms, his position makes sense.
In the real world . . . significantly less sense.
If all these people are considered so dangerous that they can't board aircraft or own firearms, why aren't they in custody?...
and furthermore, why do the anti-gunners seem to have no problem whatsoever leaving these people free to wreak havoc?
Considering that Lautenberg has already made thousands of people who have not been convicted of any crime automatic felons for possessing a firearm, this doesn't surprise me at all.
Let's put the shoe on the other foot, and propose a piece of legislation that would put Henigan, et al, on a "secret list" that would deprive them of their rights of peaceful assembly, press and speech (all 1st Amendment). All without due process or appeal. I wonder how they'd like that?
B Woodman
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"Arguing with the military is like mud wrestling with a pig. You both get dirty, but the pig loves it."
"If all these people are considered so dangerous that they can't board aircraft or own firearms, why aren't they in custody?..."
Simple: They haven't yet been CAUGHT doing anything, which would be cause for arrest, and confirmation of all the suspicion. No crime yet = free men.
That doesn't change the "stupid" imprint on this Dennis Henigan's brain, however.
Maybe we should make it personal, pass a law that these people must be circumcised? Oh, wait, that's already being pushed on infants, without even parental consent...
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