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To: Lazamataz
I did NOT like his answer about gun bans for the Terrorist Watch List

I understand and agree. In a normal world where a government has not been weaponized against it's citizens, only the truly deserving would end up on this list (4th amendment).

In a Hillary world, all dissenters would somehow make their way on the 'list'.

In the end, with a Trump administration, this wouldn't happen. I look at this as one way to disarm or take away an argument the left uses. Trump tying his answer to the NRA makes it appear like a reasoned response.

I think Trump lost out on an opportunity with the black communities and could have swerved to education and returning to the states and school choice. Otherwise, it's gotta be tough standing next to someone spewing so many lies.

92 posted on 09/26/2016 8:45:34 PM PDT by The Iceman Cometh (It's going to be tough to unite the Republican party,but we must. Our children can't afford Hillary)
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To: The Iceman Cometh

I did NOT like his answer about gun bans for the Terrorist Watch List

I understand and agree.

The problem is a lack of due process. The NRA's position (IIRC) is that if the government puts you on a no-fly list then that person should have the right to have their day in court to try to get off it.

Right now the feds can slap you on the no-fly list with no explanation and no recourse. The Senate Democrats only want an election issue so they absolutely refused to agree to this reasonable (and constitutionally imperative) amendment. So the bill failed to get out of the Senate and the Democrats got their wedge issue: "Those crazy gun-nut Republicans love their guns more than stopping terrorists!"

Trump believes, like many people, that due process protection is absolutely needed for these lists (on pure constitutional grounds if nothing else), but he didn't explain it very well and just said he sided with the NRA on it.

160 posted on 09/26/2016 9:25:57 PM PDT by Gideon7
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