There is a "gap" in Federal Law that allows persons on the terrorist watchlist to purchase guns in the United States. Seems like that might be a loophole that you might want to close.
Where does John McCain stand on the issue? He doesn't know or refuses to say. Of course he refuses to say. He needs the votes of the members of the gun lovers organizations.
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I am not a member of the NRA and I never have been, although I fully support the right to bear arms as a fundamental principle of government. If you're suggesting that the NRA supports selling guns to terrorists, I'd like to sample some of that stuff you're smoking!
As a confessed liberal, I would think you'd be very suspicious of "government lists" that prohibit the purchase of handguns. How do you get on the list? Do you have to have a Middle-Eastern sounding name to make the list? If we deny their 2nd Ammendment rights because they're defined as potential terrorists, should we also deny them their 1st Ammendment rights to free speech? We don't want them recruiting more terrorist do we?
The issue is not as black and white as you would have us believe, but having said that, I think it's ridiculous to deny the need to close this gap in the law. It won't really do a lot of good because if they really are terrorists they'll get what they need anyway, but it just doesn't make sense to offer them the chance to buy weapons to kill us.
Since Dem's control both Houses of Congress, why hasn't Queen Nancy brought the matter to the floor? Probably for the same reasons nothing has been accomplished under her leadership: she is an ineffective leader who is so far to the left that she can't forge bi-partisan support for anything. The rush to leave town in August to promote her vapid book was apparently more important than taking action on the energy crisis. You can only ignore the will of the people for so long before they turn on you.
Absolutely!!!!
Then the terrorists will not have to use plastic spoons and forks and playdo with wires to overpower multi million dollar aircraft with "its not my job" union flight attendants. By the way are boogie men, bigfoots and terrorists all cryptozoology. I guess I will sleep with the lights on tonight.
The King George administration decided we needed a terrorist watch list. But if you are on that list, (and presumably dangerous because surely they wouldn't make a mistake putting a person on that list)is it really rational to allow those people to purchase handguns.
As for Democrats controlling both Houses of Congress, you know as well as I do that you need 60 votes in the Senate to get most things done. You also know that you need 2/3 of the Senate to overturn a King George veto. But like most conservatives, you are counting on the fact that most of the electorate doesn't understand that.
to I'am not a doctor watson in the adirondacks.
Call Guinness World Records!!!! A new record!!!!
The 110th Congress with a razor slim Republican minority of 49 seats out of 100, has "in just one session, prevented a mind blowing 62 pieces of legislation from going to the floor for an up or down vote by Republican filibuster's since January 2008."(Roger Hickey). No need to worry about Al-Qaeda when you have the likes of Sen. Ted Stevens, Larry Craig, Richard Lugar, and Lindsey Graham.
All bought and paid for by the likes of big oil.
The point, Watson, is that McCain would not give an opinion on that no brainer because he didn't want to piss off the gun lobby.
Should a person suspected of being a terrorist, who can't be trusted to board an airplane, be allowed to buy a handgun?
You read the same thing I do, but your brain seems to tell you something else.
You jumped all over Obama because he didn't have a yes or no answer to a complex abortion question, but you defend McCain for pandering to "gun manufacturer's trade associations".
Read the Newsweek article, Watson. McCain has too many lobbyists working in his campaign.
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