Calling it "common sense," Bloomberg also called for closing the "terror gap" with a federal law that would "block sales of guns and explosives to those on the terror watch lists."
Yeah, 'cause banning guns will keep us safe from explosive? It's only common sense if you're a gazillionaire and you have armed bodyguards to watch over your sorry ass all the time. The rest of us proles will just have to do with our pitchforks and ploughshares.
Lindsey Graham (squish) makes a stab at bringing sense to the debate:
"I believe my right to own a gun shouldn't be infringed because some nut is going to take a gun and use it wrongfully," said Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.).
He's right, but that's not really what the debate is about. Mayor Bloomfuck wants it to be a disqualifying event to be placed on either the no-fly list or the terror watch list. The problem with this is that both lists are rather arbitrary in who gets on them, and it's next to impossible to get off either (especially the no-fly list). And the most repugnant thing about them is that the disqualification comes with no adjudication.
Now, for that reason, I say go for it, but I'd have membership to the no-fly or terror lists only have a hold put on a firearm transaction. What this would do is force the governments hand and make them shit or get off the pot. How many Americans would get pissed as hell to find themselves on eiher list, for no reason, with no recourse to be removed?
Don't know ...... but maybe it's time to find out.
pm
No comments:
Post a Comment