House GOP: OK to Sell Guns to Terrorists

[eynon81]

[eynon81]

ha! take that thread!

[Indy]

LOL you in crazy mood this week.

OK, my question was (just got back):

We shouldn't keep people off planes or from buying guns/explosives if they're on the TWL because it is flawed, resulting in, say, way too many false positives.

Um, so why don't we fix the TWL?

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[Indy]

Let me put it another way: were the TWL cleaned up and confidence was high that anybody on it should be on it, in that case would you agree to ban those people from gun sales?

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[Indy]

How many people convicted of terrorism do you think would be available to do things like buy guns, explosives or get on airplanes?

Now that is of course a rhetorical question, because I think we can guess that people convicted of terrorism are probably in prison, most likely for the rest of their lives.

Going back to the airplane scenario, seeing that making the requirement that you only deny boarding to those convicted of terrorism really let's be honest: you're talking about denying boarding to nobody.

So that's not really going to prevent anything now, is it?

Another point: if I were to be denied boarding based on me being on a watch list, I think my logical response would be to tell them to fix the list and get me off it. It wouldn't be that they should allow anybody on board since I'm erroneously on it.

That would be like saying because I was wrongly convicted of a crime and in prison, you need to release all prisoners so I don't happen again.

See what I'm getting at?

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