DOJ overrules FBI on gun sales debate, says no-fly list can be used for ban

Posted by $ Your_Name_Goes_Here 8 years, 5 months ago to Government
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This is a rhetorical question, but can you explain to me how someone NOT convicted of a crime can be deprived of their Second Amendment RIGHTS?
SOURCE URL: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jun/16/doj-overrules-fbi-gun-sales-debate/


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    Posted by $ blarman 8 years, 5 months ago
    "but can you explain to me how someone NOT convicted of a crime can be deprived of their Second Amendment RIGHTS?"

    Sure. You ignore the Constitution. It's what Obama and the Democrats have been doing for years and the Republicans have been letting them get away with.
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    • Posted by $ jdg 8 years, 5 months ago
      And they've been doing it since the Violence Against Women Act (which violates both due process and the limits of federal jurisdiction).
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    • Posted by $ 8 years, 5 months ago
      We have a winner!

      You're spot-on... Republicans have lost their spine and will not ensure that the governmental checks and balances designed by our Founding Fathers are enforced. We are truly in a sad state under the "leadership" of our Dear Leader, The One, Barack Hussein Obama (mmm, mmm, mmm....)
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  • Posted by mia767ca 8 years, 5 months ago
    when i was actively flying as a 767 Captain for American Airlines, i could, in uniform, on a paid trip, go right thru security...the next day as a passenger, i was forced to standby while my name was cleared off the "no fly" list as a suspected terrorist...there are 6 different lists...the minute i got my name off of one list and moved on to the next list...it re-appeared on the previous list...the govt has no idea what it is doing...
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  • Posted by freedomforall 8 years, 5 months ago
    Its called dictatorship, and another of many steps toward serfdom and eventually to genocide.
    As expected, HRM Donnie is in favor of more gun control and more government power.

    Do you trust that government will not broaden the no fly list to include you?
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 8 years, 5 months ago
    I have a background check that once allowed me to be hired by super picky Wackenhut Security and I've been a good old dino ever since.
    But I'm also a white right-wing owner of several guns, who thinks that the socialist chairman-in-chief is an impeachable sociopath liar and a traitor to the Constitution he has called a list of negatives. Yeah, a list that stands in his way.
    I also think the fundamental changer's claim that manmade climate change being more dangerous than ISIS is a crock.
    I've also heard it libtard stated that some whitey who uses freedom of speech like me should be considered a terrorist more dangerous than the Islamic variety, which I guess would include ISIS now. Hey, I even live in Alabama.
    So when does that no-fly list apply to me?
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    • Posted by Herb7734 8 years, 5 months ago
      Be patient. I'm sure they'll get around to you. Based on my posts, and before that my letters to congress and to newspaper editors, and other similar activities, the only reason I'm probably not on the no-fly list is because I'm old and decrepit. There are many things which I once considered as being negative that I now think of as being a badge of honor.
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      • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 8 years, 5 months ago
        Since I don't fly in the USA anymore because of the crappy service and harassment at the airport I don't really care. Most I might do to go to let's see Baja California to Florida is to some Mexico airport then to anything going into near my destination meaning reducing the problem to one border entry point. Back to Mexico would be bus to Texas or Arizona since there also is no direct train service anywhere in the USA anymore. I started with "Since." I better conclude. I never thought of it as a badge of honor but going through the crap of seeing a failed system and a failed government response I would feel a lot safer going my route than using their version.
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        • Posted by Herb7734 8 years, 5 months ago
          I don't fly at all anymore.
          Some years ago I had to travel from Florida to California. We stayed in California for 5 months or so and then would go back to Florida. We did this for four years. During that time, we added 4 to 5 days to our trip each way and drove back and forth in our mini van, rather than put up with the crazy that is American commercial flying. We did a bit of sight-seeing and found the best restaurants along interstate 10. Plus we knew the location of every rest stop on the way. We used the AAA guide books to make reservations as we approached a likely town, and quit driving between 4 and 5 pm. Easy, low pressure traveling, and a far superior experience than flying.
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  • Posted by term2 8 years, 5 months ago
    Maybe it IS a crime to not obey Obama. Ask Snowden about that. What crime did he commit, yet he would be locked up for a lifetime for doing what he did.
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  • Posted by livefree-NH 8 years, 5 months ago
    This sentence leaps off the page at me: "Democrats say Mr. Cornyn’s proposal puts too much of the burden on the government." My answer to that would be the Latin maxim, "semper necessitas probandi incumbit ei qui agit," a translation of which in this context is: "the necessity of proof always lies with the person who lays charges."
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  • Posted by $ Radio_Randy 8 years, 5 months ago
    How did Dr. Ferris put it..."what good are laws if there is nobody to break them"?

    New "laws" will simply be created to make law abiding citizens, criminals and felons. Then it will be a simple matter to deprive us of our rights.

    Oh...there will be the little matter of depriving the rights of an armed citizenry...
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  • Posted by teri-amborn 8 years, 5 months ago
    I suppose that (like any substitute "parent figure") "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure".
    ...too bad that they don't apply the same reasoning to the welfare system and take away incentives to have children out-of-wedlock!
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  • Posted by CircuitGuy 8 years, 5 months ago
    I actually agree with the no-fly == no-buy, BUT in the opposite way the politicians mean it. Instead of being a reason to take away more rights, it should be a reason to expand the right to fly.

    The way they're using it chaps my ass because it's built on an unstated burden on citizens to prove their rights. It's the same thing as people saying "you need make a case why drugs/guns/XYZ ought to be allowed," as if rights were something possessed only by the state to be doled out only for good reason.
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 8 years, 5 months ago
    To answer the question instead of skirting around it nibbling at the edges.....

    How can you have a Constitutionally guaranteed right with no Constitution and no one to guarantee the rights therein? That was supposed to be one of the government jobs. The first thing they did was get rid of all those pesky little rules and the paper they were written on, intentionally lost the war on terrorism and joined the other side.

    The cycle or circle of repression and economic repression continues having lost in Uruguay and Brazil they found new sponsors in the former USA.

    At the present time civil rights and the bill of rights has been suspended and that suspension was increased last Dec 31st. So all discussion of history and what should have been but is no longer will last only...until....the ....first ....arrest ....under the patriot act is made pubic.

    Ha ha on you. They aren't required to make it public.

    The New Yorkers and other of those back eastern cities have a wonderful set of phrases for most situations. Remember the movie about the Philly Eagles. Mikey Mike did a great job when he delivered the line 'don't start playing stupid.:

    The question should be how are you going to defeat left wing fascism in all it's forms and regain constitutional rights? REGAIN.

    By voting for the three candidates of the left?

    Left is Government over citizens...Have you heard Trump speak against that? No. He's a NY liberal. a leftist. Playing stupid with you.

    The question was indeed rhetorical but I explained it anyway.

    It's possible because too many people are playing stupid.
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  • Posted by evlwhtguy 8 years, 5 months ago
    The republicans need to add a rider to the democrats bill no fly list, no gun sale bill. They need to add a first amendment restriction for people on the no fly list as well. Lets see if democrats will be so Laze-fair about restricting 1st amendment as second amendment.
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    • Posted by $ WilliamShipley 8 years, 5 months ago
      Don't give them ideas. The Democrats hate the first amendment, it allows people to say non politically correct things.
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      • Posted by evlwhtguy 8 years, 5 months ago
        You are absolutely correct....there have been several attempts to shut people down for saying things that make people "feel bad" or uncomfortable. They are very much ok with any sort of restrictions on what they might describe as "those people" that of course would be ....anyone that doesn't agree with them!
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    Posted by wmiranda 8 years, 5 months ago
    I'm for no fly, no buy. I don't believe in this world of today that a precaution like that is unwarranted. For someone not on the no fly list it's easy for me to support it. I understand that if you are on the no fly list, you should have some timely method of waiver or removal from list. But for now and until we can figure something else out- no fly, no buy. As an avid 2nd amendment supporter, I don't equate such precaution as a violation of my 2nd amendment rights. Therefore, no fly, no buy.
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    • Posted by $ 8 years, 5 months ago
      So one unfounded accusation can relieve you of a Constitutionally guaranteed RIGHT? Would you be okay if that RIGHT were life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness - with emphasis on life?
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        Posted by wmiranda 8 years, 5 months ago
        But it's not. It's no fly, no buy period.
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        • Posted by $ 8 years, 5 months ago
          I guess all rights are not created equal in your world. I'm so sorry.
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          • Posted by wmiranda 8 years, 5 months ago
            That's a good observation I have to think about. I think in this world today, not all rights carry equal weight as if in one size fits all. I don't know what the balance is off hand. But as an example, I don't believe that the horde of refugees being imported at tax payer expense, supposedly for humanitarian reasons, and given special privileges and rights should be equal to the rights as an average american, who doesn't even have access to those special privileges and rights.
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