RSS Feed MenuThe California Republican Senate Candidate debate took place Thursday at The Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles. Most responses were predictable, but one question drew mind boggling responses by two of the three candidates.
Question: Should people on the no-fly watch list be allowed to purchase a gun?
Tom Campbell: Ah, NO!
Chuck DeVore: Yes, if they have not been convicted of a felony
Carly Fiorina: Yes
Campbell: Oh my goodness
Fiorina: That is why Tom Campbell has a poor rating from the National Rifle Association
Campbell: I can’t believe what I am hearing. Wait until they’ re off the no-fly list then exercise your second amendment rights.
Fiorina: The no-fly list is way too large. You are seeing an issue where Tom Campbell is way too close to Barbara Boxer for my taste.
Did Ms. Fiorina and Mr. DeVore follow the news lately? How could they make it easy for a terrorist to get weapons? I guess by Mr. DeVore’s thinking Khalid Sheikh Mohammed can purchase a gun since he has yet to be convicted. Maybe Ms. Fiorina should receive a current events lesson concerning her comments. It was because of the no-fly list that the Times Square Bomber was captured and the underwear bomber was able to travel into this country because they were NOT put on the list. I suggest Mr. DeVore and Ms. Fiorina think over their policy because I for one do not want to make it easier for a terrorist, even if they are an American citizen, to buy a gun.
A footnote: A former high-ranking CIA official commented to FrumForum tonight that, “It looks to me like the terrorists are consciously seeking American citizenship. The terrorists would become citizens so they won’t be detected. I am pretty worried about it.” What is even more worrisome is that two of the three Republican candidates don’t have common sense.
Jarhead1982 // May 9, 2010 at 5:30 pm
You hit the nail on the head as I verbatim referenced the text from the 1968 GunControl Act. Of course you refuse to conveniently acknowledge that anyone that is adjudged mentally ill still has to go through due process of the court and legal system to be legally declared and committed. Yet you choose to ignore this fact in the lame a$$ attempt to justify da guberments attempt to overstep the limitations of government power that the US Constitution has and to this day represents and that is why such a moronic attempt at power grabbing will be fought and ultimately defeated.
Did you know that one of the several cases where the FBI has written their own warrant, attempted to file it, specifically against a 80 yr old librarian? The FBI arrested her and the 78 yr old assistant Librarian she gave the warrant to (illegal under the Patriot Act to divulge the existence of the warrant). They were arrested, yet such a supposedly good thing as the Patriot Act, why then were the FBI told to drop the charges by the AG? Because to allow the Patriot Act to go to legal binding court would lose the case as the GOVERNMENT KNOWS the Patriot Act is UNCONSTITUTIONAL. Just because it has happened before doesn’t make it right or allowable! Unless of course you fully subscribe to might makes right, then you are truly an anarchist!
DUE PROCESS ya putz, and if you cant understand what that means, go look it up. Every single one of those nine categories is by the US Constitution and the BOR provided DUE PROCESS. That is one of the corner stones of our legal system and the NO FLY LIST does not follow that standard. Nothing you say, no matter how you spin it will change that fact. Go home and study up and come back with a better response or stay home little child, you are boring!