Bloomberg and Lautenburg may declare all of us terrorists, if they see it as a way to grab guns.
He has one on his Human Rights Commission. One, Omar Mohammedi, who is general counsel to the New York chapter of the Council on American Islamic Relations. He was appointed to be one of 14 members of the city's Human Rights Commission, charged with enforcing the city's anti-discrimination laws. However, Omar has been linked with a group that has been accused of condoning terrorism, and peddling conspiracy theories about the September 11 attack.
Maybe Bloomy should check his closet for guns?
I don’t fear a single terrorist (heck, even a group of terrorists) .... if the citizens are armed and able to defend themselves.
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The terrorist watch lists used at the airport are a joke.
Virtually everyone with a common name is on the list!
For instance, anyone with the name David Nelson, Jack Baldwin, Alexandra Hay, Robert Johnson, etc. gets hassled when they try to board an airliner at the nation’s airport, because these names appear on a terrorist watch list. The same is true for countless people with common names....there are tens of thousands of other common names on these watch lists.
So, if these innocent non-terrorist Americans wanted to buy a gun, they would be barred from doing so under this bill.
Welcome to the screwed up American police state.
I’d have to oppose Bloomberg on this. Since when is the ‘terrorism watch list’ a judicial process that establishes someone’s unfitness to own firearms? This would set a terribly dangerous precedent. Like other posters have mentioned, what if someone in the government bureaucracy dislikes you, and decides to stick your name into the ‘terrorism watch list’ database? What is the process by which you can have your name cleared or removed? I don’t think there is one.
Once you establish that people on government ‘watch lists’ can be denied the freedom to purchase firearms, what is next? What if there is a ‘watch list’ one day for ‘subversive persons’ that would not only bar you from firearms purchases, but also things like vehicle registrations or business licenses? What, exactly, would stop this sort of abuse?
Of course, since this is a political grandstand, I doubt anyone proposing this really cares...
Their illegal plan is going NOWHERE. Why is it that liberals hate the No-Fly list, as a violation of civil rights (and full of errors!) but then OK the same list being used to stop people from buying guns? If these people are so dangerous - ARREST them! Bloomboy is a loser.
“Name, please.”
“Achmed.”
“And your occupation, please.”
“I’m a terrorist.”
“I’m sorry, but according to the new Bloomberg Law, no weapons for you! Next.”
Seee how well this works?
As I recal, part of the problem here is that the authorities may not have let on that some of these folks are suspected of being or associating with terrorists. And once they try to buy a weapon, the cat’s out of the bag.
There was great debate here whether it’s best to not let them legally buy weapons and therfore warn them, or to let them buythe weapons and continue to monitor their movements (I opted for the latter).
I’d rather not have terrorists on the loose at all, whether they are training hijackers in close hand to hand combat, poisoning the minds of children and gangbangers with hate, harvesting anthrax or bubonic plague, making pipe bombs, threatening to take down the power grid, stuffing a car with fertilizer bombs, etc.
We’ve had domestic terrorist attacks with guns and the public has been reminded that we have had “no” domestic terrorist attacks” since 9-11-2001. Forget about those shootings in the DC area, the LAX Air Israel thing, the mall shooting in Utah, the Jewish community center in Seattle...
This is just gun grabber legislation. They aren’t serious about fighting terrorism yet.
Bloomberg’s interpretation of terrorist = law abiding citizen.
"Sentence first, trial after!!" -- Queen of Hearts
Wait until they use the “patriot” act to come after gun owners. It will happen in the next 10 years.
Not only detained. We all know that terrorist suspects have no right to a trial. Congress should just pass legislation that not only permits, but requires that gun dealers immediately shoot dead anybody denied a clearance to own guns by the government.
Wait .... Why wait for the terrorist to attempt to purchase a gun. Why not require gun dealers to hunt down terrorist suspects and kill them where they live? Much safer for the gun dealers.
No ... Wait .... Why not require ANYBODY to hunt down terrorist suspects?
On a slightly different matter, how do I contact the FBI to report my suspicions regarding possible terrorist suspects? I know of some who would deny me my right to keep and bear arms and who would kill me, my family, and my pets to do so.
Can you explain how the NICS is unconstitutional?
Why hasn’t this criminal been arrested?
we know who many of them are, and we're not doing anything about it.
So...go bother people who aren't "them"?