From the AP:
"WASHINGTON - The National Rifle Association is urging the Bush administration to withdraw its support of a bill that would prohibit suspected terrorists from buying firearms. Backed by the Justice Department, the measure would give the attorney general the discretion to block gun sales, licenses or permits to terror suspects."
You mean to tell me it has been 5 1/2 years since 9/11 and no one thought to do anything about terror suspects buying guns? Hell we lock people up with no proof, wire tap every body, throw out habeas corpus and generally play havoc with the Bill of Rights and until the democrats took charge of Congress no body thought to stop Osama Bin Laden from buying a 12 gauge?
2 comments:
This is quite an oversimplification and a distortion of the issue.
I agree it is a simplification, but not a distortion. That some are opposed to the legislation owing to a fear of reduction in second amendment rights is not the issue to me. The issue, as I see it, is that we can trust the airlines to not let people on planes that are on the terrorist watch list, but we can't trust honest gun dealers to do the same. That just doesn't make sense to me.
The NRA opposition doesn't bother me, I think they have a concern that given the right political environment the watch list could be abused or begin a slippery slope to more aggressive gun legislation. They are free to oppose, and to some extent may be correct in those concerns. Still though it seems silly that we haven't found a way in 5 1/2 years to keep suspected terrorists from buying guns, and that until the democrats took congress no one had even proposed it.
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