BREAKING: NRA to support Obama's "Watchlist" gun control measure using FBI

[spencer60]

Hate to tell folks but that statement has been up for a while now... ever since this whole 'watch list' idea was first floated.

It's probably going to get traction now though, the NRA simply doesn't have any way to stop it. That's the problem with terrorist attacks, they scare the sheeple and make them clamor to be protected.

And since there is no way the Dems and gun-grabbers will get a ban on AR-15s, this will be their sticking point.

That being said, if the NRA can get some kind of due process requirements around these lists they will have done more for this country than anyone I can think of in the last 20 years.

These things are scary, taken straight from the KGB and Gestapo. I'd love to see them completely gone, but if they at least can be opened up and made public, and placed under judicial review, it would resolve a whole lot of issues.

The devil will be in the details, and how many checks and balances can be built in. Congress has put lots of 'new' people on the Prohibited list, but they always had some judicial review standard. If the NRA can get that for these 'watch lists', I'm all for them trying. I'm not going to blame them for being stuck in an unwinnable battle.

 

[Nsegg]

Can't we just profile already!?

 

[toobaroque]

I'm not the LEAST bit worried about this simply because I KNOW I will NEVER be on a terrorist watch list. That's right... NEVER!

 

[Alphacpa]

Common sense.

 

[boxer90]

Profiling is just as bad. Today they profile Muslims. Tomorrow they profile people with Confederate flags in their yard.

Next time we have a McVeigh or a Roof, you'll see liberals calling for profiling of "white men" and "white Christians". I don't want to go down that path, even if it means a few Muslims kill a handful of people here and there. Acceptable causalities in the name of preserving the little bit of "freedom" we still have.

 

[Triceracop]

See the problem here is the label of "Terrorist."
One doesn't technically become a terrorist until they start terrorizing (similar to how a criminal isn't a criminal until he is), yet the media portrays these terrorists as if they have I.D. cards on them that say "Ahmed Mohammed, Certified Terrorist" and then say "we should just ban these people on this list from legally purchasing weapons" as if it's a bona fide way of stopping all terrorist attacks in the U.S.

I'm all for profiling. Sorry sir or madam, I don't really care how offended you are if it saves lives at the end of the day.

Food for Thought: Suppose they successfully ban terror watch listees from purchasing weapons.
Then they make a new qualification for eligibility of being placed on the list "having 3 or more friends on Facebook or other social media already on the terror watch list." That would be a de facto ban on all gun sales in the U.S.