karder wrote:The "no guns to people on the no fly list" is a liberal distraction. Maybe my view is overly simplistic, but if we have non-citizens on the no fly list, they need to be sent back to their country of origin after a hearing to determine if the government bureaucrat who put them there has justification.
If a citizen is on a no fly list, authorities need to review their case. Did they do something illegal that requires a grand jury to be called and an indictment sought? If so, authorities need to pursue that path, if not, they need to be removed from the no fly list. I do not support government bureaucrats randomly deciding to put someone on a no fly list, for which the requirements seem to be completely arbitrary, and thus restricting their constitutional rights.
I see it as more of a Trojan Horse than a distraction. The supposed justification is to prevent "terrorists" from legally buying guns....that justification is so transparently absurd that the real motive has to be different. I see it as bait and switch. The real motive is to create an enemies list to punish domestic political opposition.