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Originally Posted by Von Due
Can someone fill me in here? Either I'm not getting the obvious or they have gone full on insane.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-36563337
It's ok to allow people on terrorist watch lists to buy guns without having to at least notify the authorities? How does that add up? They WANT these things to happen or what? Someone fill me in on what it is I'm not getting. |
It's called Due Process.
Basically it means that you can't just take rights away from people, especially ones enumerated in the Constitution, without allowing them some form or means of redress in the courts if it was applied in error (or spite). The Democrats refuse to allow that corrective ability in this situation and the Republicans can't add it in without their support.
Remember the Terrorist Watch List is a secret list of names maintained by anonymous bureaucrats who can't be held accountable for their actions. Once a person is added to the list, even by mistake, whether its a clerical error or any other reason (including spite), there is currently no way for the victim to even find out they have been added, why they were added or who put them on it. They can't even petition the courts to their names removed from it.
What's just as bad at that is none of the proposed legislation would have stopped the Orlando terrorist as he had already been removed from the Watch list. In other words they're trying to do something they already know wouldn't work. Makes you wonder the true reasons for proposing it.