What's the punchline to this funny, funny story?
Isn't it funny how the Republican congress rushed to the aid of the husk of the shell of the person that used to be Terry Schiavo? Isn't it funny how some of them are shouting about an impending "culture of death?" Isn't it hilarious now nice people on the terrorist watch list can still purchase guns? Isn't it the funniest thing in the world how congress is about to pass legislation that gets rid of "administrative proceedings" against even the most unscrupulous of gun dealers in the United States? Isn't it just the most kooky fun you ever had thinking about how Bush and Co. want to record what books you read and where you go in a giant database, but don't want to store gun-related information of potential terrorists for more than 24 hours? Isn't that just a hoot?
I could just die laughing.
posted by Chris Dykstra @ 11:49 PM |
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Pretty much what I got out of this is that people have a right to buy guns.
If you haven't been convicted of a felony, you're not insane, and you retain that right (meaning you had it, ie not illegal alien), you don't lose it just because you are being investigated.
Sounds kind of reasonable.
Would you support stripping a "suspected terrorist" of other rights?
Privacy maybe?
Unreasonable search?
Skipping that whole Miranda thing?
Or do you think being on list is reason enough to deprive someone of rights?
Decaf, where have you been? Suspected terrorists are already stripped of their other rights.
The only right they specifically are not stripped of is their right to by a gun in complete privacy.
I think it should be very difficult to get on the terrorist watch list But if you make it there, you should be *watched.* What sense does it make, if the war on terror is real and not some dystopian tool to keep the public in line, to make it impossible for the ATF to prosecute unscrupulous gun dealers while simultaneously destroying the trail of evidence within 24 hours?
none.
Suspected terrorists are already stripped of their other rights.
No, not so much.
Are you referring to the dubious classification of "enemy combatants" kept at Gitmo?
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