Rubio wants to arm 700000 suspected terrorists with guns! Why does Rubio need a terrorist army?
âThey shouldnât be used as a tool to impede 700,000 Americans or potential Americans â people on that list from having access to be able to fully utilize their Second Amendment rights,â Rubio told CNNâs Jake Tapper.
God forbid! And from a Republican perspective, my invocation of God was intentional.
Yup. Thatâs the way to present this to the voters. Clear and accurate.
The minute you get into discussions about who should or should not be on a watchlist or no-fly list, or about whether thatâs even legal (due process, anyone?), you lose the low-information voter. Just make it plain to them that the net result of Rubioâs position is that people who are considered to be too dangerous to allow on an airplane will still be able to buy all the guns and ammo they want.
Rubio feels citizen rights are being abused and violated in the administration of the no-fly list. Has he demanded hearings to arrive at solutions to fix this system? Has he proposed legislation aimed at assuring it is more fair and transparent? What has he done as a U.S. Senator to attempt a fix?
So this means one of two things:
- Rubioâs in favor of allocating funds to update and correct the no-fly list for the benefit of all travelers and the safety of all Americans
or
- Rubio forbids any lists of gun owners anywhere anytime. Heâs OK with a few terrorists getting military-style assault weapons because everyone should be free to shoot each other up.
Follow the money
So Kasich doesnât want to tip them off that they are being watched by the government when denying them the chance to purchase a gun. But donât you also tip them off when you tell them they canât fly???
Planes are great forms of transportation until they are hijacked and turned into missiles.
Guns are are great forms of protection until your enemies used your ease with them to kill you.
Fox news is a great vehicle for promoting your RWNJ views and candidates until Donald Trump takes it over and gets himself nominated.
GOPers donât see how what they love and crave can be used against them, and is used against them to destroy them as we speak.
âThe terror watch list was created to prevent innocent people from flying to attend Aunt Minnieâs funeral. It was not intended to prevent actual terrorists from buying assault weaponsâ, Rubio went on to add.
Iâm not sure the âno-flyâ list is good for anything. This is the list that has disrupted family vacations when the name of a babe-in-arms happened to match a name on the list. When Senator Ted Kennedy was put on the list, it lost all credibility. The no-fly list is part of security theater; very publicly inconveniencing people to look like âweâre doing somethingâ.
Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
You know, weirdly enough, I agree with Rubio about this. We really shouldnât use the fact that someoneâs name is on a list thatâs prepared by some faceless government functionary, with no due process and no way to challenge your inclusion on the list or get yourself off of it, and where the list is riddled with errors, and where a lot of people have gotten mistaken for someone whoâs on the list due to having similar names, to deny anyone a right thatâs granted to everyone else. Thatâs downright un-American, that is.
Of course, that would mean that we shouldnât be using the fact that someoneâs name is on that kind of list to deny them the right to get on an airplane, either. These no-fly lists were causing all sorts of problems already, long before the gun thing came up. There were lots of tales of woe about perfectly innocent people with common names being prevented from flying to their important business meetings, to which the likes of Rubio basically shrugged their shoulders and said âSorry, dude, canât make an omelet without breaking eggs.â Now, when someone suggests applying the exact same list to gun purchases, itâs âoooh, oooh, the lists might not be totally 100% accurate, what a horrid nightmare it would be if someone were inadvertently prevented from buying a gun because he was accidentally on this list.â Not a word, so far as Iâve seen, about how these inaccurate lists shouldnât be used for preventing people from flying either.
Hey, when there are already around 112 guns per citizen making this country number one in gun ownership, whoâd notice if another 700,000 were added.
The gun lobby doesnât care if terrorists get guns just as long as they get their cash.
Well, without a constant supply of fresh terrorists, Rubio and the others canât fundraise off of a constant stream of fearmongering.
This is my first time commenting on this board â and I must say I am mightily impressed by the stupidity of its denizens. Why donât you idiots do even a little research before popping off? The âno flyâ list isnât subject to judicial oversite and itâs easy to be put on it but nearly impossible to get your name removed. Of course, you idiot libs love it â until it happens to you.
âThe stupidity of its denizensâ, âidiot libsâ could mean itâll be your last time.
the fix the effing system then.
Isnât that what your JOB?!!!
Hey, thanks for stopping in with your sunshine and happiness. The answer is to FIX the no fly list. Banning folks on that list from purchasing weapons is not a zero sum game. Itâs not like the no fly list requires a blood oath to reconfigure. But hey, welcome to the land of light. Come on back if you dare.
EDIT: Hey, and you know what? They could probably fix it with the SAME LEGISLATION. *Gasp.
Doesnât the death penalty list have a significant number of errors too?