90% of suspected terrorists able to buy guns in the U.S.

re: 90% of suspected terrorists able to buy guns in the U.S.

SamAdams1776 — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:27:13 GMT

"...but let people we're pretty sure want to use those guns to kill innocent American civilians plunk down some cash and receive an instrument whose primary function is to end lives?..."

Aye, there's the rub: "pretty sure". Well we're "pretty sure" that Jews eat Christian babies so let's burn them at the stake.

We're "pretty sure" that these folks are planning a crime so let's throw them in prison. Any other civil rights you're "pretty sure" you'd like to eliminate? What do we need pesky due process for anyways, right?

re: 90% of suspected terrorists able to buy guns in the U.S.

Foo Bar — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:16:57 GMT

I think the problem here is that you have a constitutional right to buy a guy. SCROTUS has said so. So to deprive you of that right there must be due process. Boarding a plane, like driving a car, is not so much a right as a privlidge. Due process requirements are less in these cases.

re: 90% of suspected terrorists able to buy guns in the U.S.

RugerRedhawk — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 09:52:11 GMT

Are you somehow suggesting that they shouldn't be able to buy guns? Since when did being suspected of a crime strip you of your constitutional rights?

re: 90% of suspected terrorists able to buy guns in the U.S.

Thanks Ben — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:54:01 GMT

Thanks Ben; you said it all.

re: 90% of suspected terrorists able to buy guns in the U.S.

Ben Miner — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:54:43 GMT

There is nothing thorny about it. The Constitution requires due process of law before rights can be taken away, and the "terror list" is clearly not due process. For one thing, there is no way to know if you are on the list or why, and no good process for appealing. (and how would you appeal something you don't know about in the first place?) The government should not have the power to restrict rights in secret. If a person has broken the law, then charge them with a crime and put them in jail. Otherwise, leave the Bill of Rights alone. And has anybody considered that if this proposed law were to go in effect it would be an easy way for somebody who really was a terrorist to see if the government was onto them?