Silence On A ‘Terror Gap’

Harley's comments are frightfully incoherent, but Obama offered a fair enough compromise for any once except the fanatics that run the Republican party. Yes, citizens can own guns for purposes such as hunting and self-defense, but we need to put some controls on who can and who cannot get a weapon.

I own a car. In order to drive, I must register my car and get a drivers' license. In order to get a drivers' license I must pass a drivers' test both written and behind-the-wheel. Because I am near-sighted, my license stipulates that I can only drive if I wear glasses. If I wish to drive a truck or commerical vehicle, I must get additional licenses and pass additional tests.

Why is this compromise so unreasonable?

All the Republicans know how to do is to pander to their own fanatical constiuents. They don't care how many lives are lost. As I write this comment, I've noticed on my news creen that 6 people are dead in a shooting rampage in Alger, Washington. How long must this slaughter continue?

Republicans are really not pro-life. Neither is the NRA. If they cared about people rather than guns, they would support Obama's proposal. Only Obama has the courage to tell the people the truth -regardless of what the opinion polls say.

Are they also going to address the First Amendment terror gap that allows someone on a terror watch list to speak, write a newspaper article, or worship whatever religion he or she chooses? No person should be deprived of a constitutional right because some nameless government bureaucrat suspects him or her of something, and this should hold just as true for the Second Amendment as it does the First Amendment.

This is so ridiculous. The terrorist watchlists are ineffective tools bloated with thousands upon thousands of names of innocent people. I guarantee you this bill would disappear tomorrow if it was amended to not only abridge the second amendment rights of people on these watchlists, but to also censor their first amendment rights so that they will not have the ability to recruit others or to incite terrorist acts. The same people right now nodding their heads in agreement with this bill would flip their sh|t. Ridiculous, just ridiculous.

the bill should be remained. disarm muslim act. all you have to do is have a muslim name or be muslim to end up on that absurd list

"Until this spring, one of its congressional lobbyists was Randy Scheunemann, now a top McCain campaign adviser on foreign policy."

I see that John McCain is actually surrounding himself with good people, glad to hear it. If I hear Newsweek complaining about something, then its obviously a good policy. Let's put your whole staff on the "terrorist watch" and "no fly" lists and then we'll see how you feel about the lack of due process.........it might actually make your magazine worth reading.

Build better cockpit doors and Abolish TSA!

It is well documented that the management of this "watch-list" is far from ideal and people end up on in who do not belong there. If a person has committed a crime, then charge them as such and due process will take its course. (including deportation if applicable). Otherwise leave Constitutional rights alone!

This loop-hole does not exsist. This article is an example of the discrimination campaign against firearms owners.
what the bill wants is arbitrary!
Like the gunshow loopehole and the mis-enumerated "assault weapon" controls of what are ordinary firearms, gun control advocates want americans to believe a Those Peoples' Rights Are A Threat! So that anything, no matter how extreme, which might (MIGHT) reduce the threat (or appear to) will make "sense!"
This is a theme and call to action discrimination campaign and Bush has done well to not fully embrace it!
News week and others have NOT done well in covering it AS a discrimination campaign as journalistic standards have deteriorated scince the 1960s.
The Liberals and the Left don't get it: Americans hate discrimination campaigns! And those that wage them!
Americans are a great people! Liberals can stop pardoning terrorists, if they are honest about what a terrrist at large might do.
And support tightening our boarders! And replenish the strategic fuel oil reserve!
News week! Be for real or be really not believed!

We???re heading for a gun in every pocket.

http://pacificgatepost.blogspot.com/2008/08/gun-proliferations-rubicon.html

This is more than a minor shift in consciousness.