GOP cares more about NRA than closing 'terrorist loophole'

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(11-21-2015, 05:11 PM)fredtoast Wrote: Right, let's allow known terrorists to buy all the guns they want.

They are not the problem.  They are not going to hurt anyone.  What we really all need to be afraid of is the big scary Government.  I mean just look at how many US citizens are being held political prisoner.  Or how many US citizens are executed every year just for political beliefs.  This list that the US government has compiled is obviously just a ruse to deny innocent people their rights, and has NOTHING to do with protecting any of us from potential terrorists.

The people on this list are "known terrorists"? I don't think you know what "known" or "terrorist" means. Unless you are just not familiar with how an individual makes it onto this list. If the latter is the case, read up on this: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/25/terrorist-watch-list_n_5617599.html

"Using these criteria, government officials have secretly characterized an unknown number of individuals as threats or potential threats to national security. In 2013 alone, 468,749 watch-list nominations were submitted to the National Counterterrorism Center. It rejected only 1 percent of the recommendations."


"The secretive nature of the terror watch lists has come under court scrutiny recently. A federal judge ruled in June that the government must develop a new process under which individuals can challenge their inclusion on the no-fly list. The judge found the current process "wholly ineffective.""