GONZALES WANTS ARBITRARY POWER TO BLOCK GUN PURCHASES; SAF SAYS HE SHOULD RESIGN

Second Amendment Foundation (email alert) ^ | 5/1/07 | Alan Gottlieb

[Carry_Okie]

BELLEVUE, WA – Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’ troubling support of legislation that would allow him and future attorneys general the arbitrary power to block firearms purchases without due process is cause for him to step down as the nation’s highest ranking law enforcement officer, the Second Amendment Foundation said today.

The bill, S. 1237, was introduced last week at the Justice Department’s request by Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), one of the most extreme anti-gunners in Congress. Called the “Denying Firearms and Explosives to Dangerous Terrorists Act of 2007,” this legislation would give the Attorney General discretionary authority to deny the purchase of a firearm or the issuance of a firearm license or permit because of some vague suspicion that an American citizen may be up to no good.

“This bill,” said SAF founder Alan Gottlieb, “raises serious concerns about how someone becomes a ‘suspected terrorist.’ Nobody has explained how one gets their name on such a list, and worse, nobody knows how to get one’s name off such a list.

“The process by which someone may appeal the Attorney General’s arbitrary denial seems weak at best,” Gottlieb suggested, “and there is a greater concern. When did we decide as a nation that it is a good idea to give a cabinet member the power to deny someone’s constitutional right simply on suspicion, without a trial or anything approaching due process?

“We’re not surprised that General Gonzales has found an agreeable sponsor in Frank Lautenberg,” Gottlieb observed. “The senator from New Jersey has never seen a restrictive gun control scheme he did not immediately embrace, and S. 1237 is loaded with red flags. It would allow an appointed bureaucrat the authority to suspend or cancel someone’s Second Amendment right without even being charged with a crime.

“Attorney General Gonzales has no business asking for that kind of power over any tenet in the Bill of Rights,” Gottlieb said. “He took an oath to uphold the Constitution, not trample it. Perhaps it is time for him to go.”

[Dead Corpse]

And you don’t stand there alone either.

[Amerigomag]

Here's a little problem.

The assertion that the AG "arranged" or supports this legislation may, in fact, be true, but we wouldn't know from this release which contains only unsourced opinion.

Where's the beef C_O?

[Eyes Unclouded]

"Moderate globalist" is about the closest you could come."

BUSH's FATHER ANNOUNCED THE NEW WORLD ORDER!!!

I've seen this board around election time i know what you mean about speaking ill against, what you would think was the 2nd coming, bush. Sometimes I wonder all those times some random donation from Texas put the donation thing over the top during the FReepathons....

but no we all read articles and post comments! Free thinkers every single one of us right? No way we could ever be duped into supporting the very ends of the people we opposed with a little pandering and a tax cut.

[Sloth]

*cough* Harriet *cough*

[Dick Bachert]

Do these MORONS (Gonzales and Lousenberg) REALLY think folks bent on terrorism/murder, etc. are going to try to buy a weapon at the local sporting good shop or Walmart and wait for the background check???

RIGHT!

They BOTH should be mustered out for STUPIDITY.

No, this is about something far more sinister...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j73SsNFgBO4

[RWR8189]

And what’s she doing these days?

[Lancey Howard]

Well if the Bush administration keeps this up, conservatives are going to be asking to impeach Bush.

Bump that.

[omnivore]

Notice also that they deliberately ignore the opportunity to actually arrest or otherwise detain "known or suspected terrorists."

Sen. Lautenberg and Sen. Biden seem perfectly happy to let "known or suspected terrorists" walk around free among us. As long as they don't buy their guns from an FFL dealer who would make them take a background check.

That enormous loophole - that this is supposedly about stopping gun purchases rather than about getting "known or suspected terrorists" off the streets - is the tipoff that this is really about ordinary people who want to buy guns, not about actual terrorists. That is, Hillary or whoever else (including possibly Rudy McRomney, from the way those three disparage the 2nd Amendment) will simply label anyone she wants a "suspected terrorist" just to cut them off from gun sales.

No argument that Gonzalez is a nitwit. But this just means that in the 2008 primaries, picking a strong and long-track-record 2nd Amendment supporter will be critical.

[stephenjohnbanker]

“No argument that Gonzalez is a nitwit. But this just means that in the 2008 primaries, picking a strong and long-track-record 2nd Amendment supporter will be critical.”

Duncan Hunter

[Fiddlstix]

Bump

[stephenjohnbanker]

Where does it end?

[Lazamataz]

Take a look at this article. Take a look at the responses. Take a look at the text of this bill (there's a link).

And then try and tell me Bush was good for us.

We're in a world of shit, my friend.

[Southack]

Yawn. Gonzales is trolling for liberal support, but the last bill authored by Schumer just got Vetoed by President Bush this evening.

...and if Democrats want to be portrayed as gun-banners in the 2008 elections, then so be it.

[Cobra64]

Bang

BOOM!

[editor-surveyor]

We’ve known all along that Alberto needs to go; just not for the phony reasons that the DBM want him to go.

[Afronaut]

Kick that guy to the curb. Throw him to the Rats!

What a Dope!

[VxH]

>>Where does it end?

Someplace before 1776.

[Rembrandt]

Harry “The Hat” Reid is the one who should resign. He’s a thief and a fraud.

[Carry_Okie]

Where's the beef C_O?

In the existence of multiple independent sources.