The Huffington Post along with NY Mayor Bloomberg take the position that no one on the so-called "no fly" list should be able to legally purchase guns. Why? These people have not been convicted of any crime. They haven't even been accused of committing a crime! Show us this supposed list. Explain to the public exactly how one makes the list.
Bloomberg is working hard to make it so that people cannot legally purchase firearms based on their political and/or religious affiliations/beliefs.
Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.), Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.) are .
We all know how the FBI chooses their targets.
There is something very dangerous about allowing the government to declare individuals unable to possess firearms based on them possibly being legal dissidents with no oversight or transparency.
Part of this hysteria is also to revoke US citizens of their citizenship without having been convicted of any crime.
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What about the part of HuffPost's headline about NRA members disagreeing with the NRA on this issue?
Think Progress conducted a laughable survey of NRA annual conference attendees. Apparently a lot of those asked agreed that anyone put on the "terrorist watchlist" should not be able to buy guns. It wouldn't be surprising if the rightwing membership of NRA went along with the law and order argument for restrictive laws (that they don't think will affect them directly).
This could easily be where the government gets the support of rightwing gunowners to restrict gun ownership to those who pass a political litmus test!
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As for the part of HuffPost's headline about Palin claiming that Obama wants our guns, her speech was just a list of paranoid ramblings about how Obama will take our guns and loves abortion.
If those people think that people on the no-fly list are so dangerous, why not just round them all up and herd them into an internment camp near Lone Pine, California?
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