Should actor Mark Ruffalo be prohibited from buying guns?

Gun Rights Examiner ^ | 1 December, 2010 | David Codrea

[marktwain]

“Hollywood star Mark Ruffalo has been placed on a terror watch list by U.S. officials after organizing screenings for a new documentary about natural gas drilling,” Paul Thompson of Mail Onlinereports.

[H]is efforts to raise awareness and demand a stop to natural gas drilling attracted the attention of officials from Pennsylvania's Office of Homeland Security.

Ah, Pennsylvania, well no wonder. That’s the same first line of defense Keystone Staters have to protect them against the giant inflatable pink pig owner menace. No wonder Gov. Ed Rendell felt so confident vetoing the right to self defense, with these all-seeing guardians of state security manning the watchtowers.

But no worries for Ruffalo:

The 43-year-old actor, who also stars in this year's critical hit The Kids Are All Right, will not be stopped from flying.

One can only wonder if someone who was not a famous “Hollywood star,” with the attendant “people” and connections, would fare as well.

Still, there’s one other matter some who claim to champion public safety need to weigh in on, because it's a matter, according to them, no less critical than state security: We’ve seen Frank Lautenberg and Carolyn McCarthy introduce bills demanding those on the “terror watch list” be prohibited from buying guns.

And demanding those efforts be enacted—and attacking anyone suggesting that perhaps due process considerations are in order before arbitrarily trampling on unalienable rights, is the anti-defense lobby, represented most prominently by the Brady Campaign:

[marktwain]

One of the key parts of the "progressive" philosophy is that the Constitution is outdated and should be ignored at will.

[Ax]

Who?

[SnakeDoctor]

It probably doesn’t matter. Ruffalo doesn’t strike me as the type that would want to buy a gun.

SnakeDoc

[Puppage]

One of the key parts of the "progressive" philosophy is that the Constitution is outdated and should be ignored at will.

Yep, they see it as a living document to be changed at will to fit their agenda.

[WayneS]

No.

Whoever he is, no.

[FourPeas]

I have no idea who Ruffalo is, but his case does a good job of just how easily this regime can justify putting a person on their Terrorism Watch List. He may be a liberal wacko, but the Second Amendment applies to him as much as it does to any other american citizen.

[BookaT]

What he shouldn’t be able to buy or own is energy. No Gasoline, no natural gas, no diesel.

[1984 is non-fiction]

I agree. If the Constitution was good enough for our Founding Fathers in its original form then it should be good enough for us. Anything beyond the Constitution and the original Bill of Rights should be stripped away and the document used as originally intended.

[NC28203]

>>> If the Constitution was good enough for our Founding Fathers in its original form then it should be good enough for us. Anything beyond the Constitution and the original Bill of Rights should be stripped away and the document used as originally intended.

Big fan of that whole slavery thing, eh?

[OneWingedShark]

>> If the Constitution was good enough for our Founding Fathers in its original form then it should be good enough for us. Anything beyond the Constitution and the original Bill of Rights should be stripped away and the document used as originally intended.
>
>Big fan of that whole slavery thing, eh?

Read this:
https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0ATyjMtQJe7iWZHY2OTh0bV8yN2htZnBzOWQy&hl=en

[tutstar]

Formal calls for probe into reporter's name on no-fly list

one of the beloved drive by media reporters is on the 'list', wanna bet they have all our ip addresses????

[B4Ranch]

>>Ruffalo doesn’t strike me as the type that would want to buy a gun.<<

Do you remember the uproar when Diane Feinstein said she owns a handgun. I’m guessing that her confession open the door for ownership.

[archy]

One of the key parts of the "progressive" philosophy is that the Constitution is outdated and should be ignored at will.

Gee, I wonder why?

United States Code, Title 18, U.S. Criminal Code
Part I, Chapter 13, §ection 241: Conspiracy against rights

If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or because of his having so exercised the same; or

If two or more persons go in disguise on the highway, or on the premises of another, with intent to prevent or hinder his free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege so secured—

They shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and if death results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, they shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or both, or may be sentenced to death