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Former NSA Director Michael Hayden: Banning Guns ‘Might’ Be Part of Counterterrorism
breitbart.com ^ | 12/8/2016 | AWR Hawkins

Posted on 12/08/2016 7:27:21 AM PST by rktman

During a Wall Street Journal Future of Cybersecurity breakfast, former NSA director Michael Hayden suggested banning whole categories of guns “might” need to be part of America’s “counterterrrorism discussion” going forward.

He specifically referenced the June 12 Orlando Pulse terror attack and suggested there “might be some guns out there that nobody should be able to buy.”

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2a; banglist; guncontrol
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To: Jimmy The Snake
"...Ya know in a way, that is happening. Many fools look at Trump thru the lens of a what we think politicians are supposed to be and then they freak out when he isn’t one..."

Very good point. And it is also the specific reason many of us voted for him.

What is the definition of insanity? Doing the same thing over and over, expecting a different result?

Electing Donald Trump might be one of the sanest things this country has done in decades.

61 posted on 12/08/2016 8:57:42 AM PST by rlmorel (Orwell described Liberals when he wrote of those who "repudiate morality while laying claim to it.")
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To: Lion Den Dan

Wrong agency - Muslin outreach was NASA, not NSA


62 posted on 12/08/2016 9:05:02 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: Old Teufel Hunden

Sheesh - easier to say everyone should just convert and then the Islamic terrorism would end against kafirs.


63 posted on 12/08/2016 9:07:39 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: PIF

What was I thinking??? Oh well, they’re both way out there.


64 posted on 12/08/2016 9:10:29 AM PST by Lion Den Dan
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To: Theophilus

Well said.


65 posted on 12/08/2016 9:17:19 AM PST by Red in Blue PA (war is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength, obama loves America)
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To: rktman

And as a former NSA wonk, he is irrelevant despite his efforts to get people to notice him....


66 posted on 12/08/2016 9:26:27 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: rktman

This idiot was a 4 star General too.


67 posted on 12/08/2016 9:39:58 AM PST by Roman_War_Criminal
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To: rktman

Come and get them, azzhole!


68 posted on 12/08/2016 9:46:35 AM PST by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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To: rktman

Hayden gets DUMBER every day!!


69 posted on 12/08/2016 9:54:18 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: yuleeyahoo

yuleeyahoo wrote:

“A better option would be national open carry.”

And no ‘gun free’ zones.


70 posted on 12/08/2016 10:06:18 AM PST by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57, returning after lurking since 2000)
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To: rktman

This dude only has days left in office. He needs to stfu! Our guns stay regardless of who’s in office. From now on it’s a moot topic!


71 posted on 12/08/2016 10:39:41 AM PST by Jim Shoe
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To: rktman

Just TRY it!


72 posted on 12/08/2016 10:49:40 AM PST by Renegade
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To: rktman

But leave that border wide open so they can bring in nukes. Asshat.


73 posted on 12/08/2016 10:57:38 AM PST by SaraJohnson
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To: rktman

Authoritarian bullsh*t.

Mediocre, mid-level government flacks always have an excuse for their excesses.


74 posted on 12/08/2016 11:47:37 AM PST by Jack Hammer
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To: rktman

There was no “terrorism” before the Government decided to bless us with “diversity”.

You don’t get the guns chump!


75 posted on 12/08/2016 11:49:23 AM PST by The Toll
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To: rktman
ban muslimes...
76 posted on 12/08/2016 5:48:56 PM PST by Chode (You Owe Them Nothing - Not Respect, Not Loyalty, Not Obedience, NOTHING! ich bin ein Deplorable...)
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