Wanna Get Really Pissed Off?
Currently, some known or suspected terrorists are prohibited from boarding airplanes by the government’s no-fly list — but all are allowed to buy assault rifles and other weapons.
While the bill remained a nonstarter, more than 2,000 suspects on the FBI’s Terrorist Watchlist bought weapons in the U.S. over the last 11 years, according to the federal Government Accountability Office.
The GAO reported that 91% of all suspected terrorists who tried to buy guns in America walked away with the weapon they wanted over the time period, with just 190 rejected despite their ominous histories.
Read the whole thing. And take a short dive into the comment section where you will see gun nuts argue that this is okay.
Thanks to Alfredo over at the Dairy Queen for the heads up.
And this is a surprise?
1This is just crazy, and I hope it gets wide publicity.
You get one guess as to whom I would like to see meet up with one of those suspected terrorist with a legally purchased gun. Actually there are over 100 politicians I would not mind seeing meet up with an armed terrorist.
Just remember Mental Ben said the worst bullet-riddled body he’d seen wasn’t as bad as people losing their rights to have guns.
2I read the comments and now I’m really pissed off. Miss Juanita, you can predict the future!
3I’m glad someone in the media is on this.
4Applause to the NY Daily News for making a big noise about this. I would have thought they were a righty tabloid, but I guess I was wrong (at least on this issue).
5Can’t wait to hear Wayne a Pierre’s apology (as in explanation)
6Don’t expect anything but crickets.
We grow our own bumper crop of wackos quite well, thank you very much.
Read this yesterday. Been sitting on it, hoping some of the 2a-mmosexuals’ heads would explode, but so far no signs of bloody chunky peanut butter marking the landscape. Too bad.
Yes so to prevent KNOWN terrorist from buying firearms there are those who would restrict the flow of firearms purchases.
As my favorite cartoon bad guy would say “Life’s full of tough choices, iddinit?”
7Thank God Gov Christie is keeping out 5 year old Syrian refugees. What if the child found a gun legally purchased by a terrorist? He might take it to school to show his friends, and then we’d say, “how can such a thing happen?”
8Rhea, NY Post is the Murdoch paper in NYC (now the Wall Street Journal as well), so no. However, they were calling for war against Daesh in their Sunday edition.
9Actually the DAILY NEWS has been pretty much centrist and unpredictable — as a good paper should be, But, even in this story, there is a Texas angle. Tony Dale has written to John Cornyn requesting that no Syrian refugees be allowed into Texas because it would be too easy for them to get guns. Not toughen the laws, keep the refugees out.
10What I’d like to see published is the list of House and Senate committee members who are blocking the bill. May as well hey some good out of all the hysteria.
11Although an expert shot, I don’t like guns!
12They give one a false sense of confidence, and once the trigger pulled there is nothing you can do to change things.
I prefer archery. As the art of pulling makes everything slower and time to think about what is being done. And on overage I am better at it then a good shooter. Guns are in general the choice for unthinking cowards and those too lazy to be good at something difficult.
We should make sure Tony Dale gets many, many emails with links to this, and pointing out that it’s the fault of people like him. As are the shootings by people who, in any sane place, would not be allowed to buy guns.
OTOH, I think blanket condemnation of guns and gun owners is as wrong as the blanket condemnation of any other group. I grew up among gun owners who were not “unthinking cowards” or “too lazy to be good at something difficult.” They didn’t go on shooting sprees. They didn’t shoot their neighbors. Many of them did not “like” guns (in the fondling their arsenal sense) any more than they liked a shovel or a hand-drill, but considered them useful for limited purposes. For home slaughter of large animals, such as a ton of steer, a gun of suitable caliber is the ideal tool. (Ditto smaller animals, if you want to kill it humanely–you can use a knife for a religiously ritual kill, but the gun renders the animal instantly unconscious and brain-dead.)
I realize that vegetarians would reject killing animals for food, but I don’t. My concern is the best life for the animal while it is alive, and a death that does not involve fear before or suffering in the act.
13Add to that the wonderful irony that 73 TSA agents were? are? on the no fly list for being suspected terrorists.
Reported this spring and again in Sept of this year.
http://www.examiner.com/article/new-report-reveals-tsa-missed-73-employees-with-links-to-terrorism
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