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Originally Posted by (1VB)compforce
I think that's an end run around the Constitution. The no-fly list is, at it's heart, an arbitrary list of people. There is no trial, no due process, not even an accusation until someone on the list tries to buy a ticket. If you link the ability to purchase a legal firearm to this type of list, you bypass several Amendments.
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So if I understand the speech correctly, their hope is that if you're on the "no fly list" you will be prevented from purchasing/owning firearms.
Who controls the No Fly List and ensures it doesn't expand to include millions of firearms owners for liking, sharing, commenting on an Internet social media meme arbitrarily viewed as promoting or condoning violence?
As I understand it, there have been a few people accurately categoriized as non violent political protestors placed on the No Fly List.
I thought the right(and at times responsibility) of non violent political protest was what helped separate the U.S. and a few other countries from totalitarianism.
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I was amazed at the complete lack of acknowledgement of the risk posed by illegal immigrants & culturally, linguistically, and politically incompatible refugees.
Just mention of visas or some such to reduce risk/threats.
Surreal debacle
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The President made the right noises in terms of SOF, "by, with, thru", et al MEANS.
But I'm not hearing much in the way of a coherent, cogent MISSiON with an END STATE.
It sounds "cool" to many I'm sure, but it also sounds like the President may be happy to "pretend and extend" to the end of his term.
This is another decade+ long chapter in an ongoing unconventional war.
Sadly, while this unconventional war is being conducted against nebulous state actors, non state actors, and domestic subversives, there are also peer level existing and emerging threats to deal with concurrently.
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This is feeling more and more like the 1930's mashed up with Bladerunner everyday.