Will Jihadists legally buying guns be a game-changer in the gun control debate?

[Nye Bevan]

I'm not holding my breath as I really thought Sandy Hook would change the debate but was sadly wrong. Obviously there cannot be a religious test for buying firearms (and I assume that a "no gun" list akin to the "no fly" list would be struck down on Second Amendment grounds). But you would think that Wayne LaPierre will at least be made to squirm by defending the right of Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik to legally buy semiautomatic weapons.

[Buzz Clik]

1. Scary people and bad guys (you know, dark skinned Americans) have guns. The answer? MORE GUNS!

This will change nothing except increase gun sales again.

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ON EDIT: This will not turn out as the knuckledraggers predict. More and more of "scary" people are arming themselves to protect themselves from "people who hate us." When everyone is armed to the teeth, this can only go one way.

[bklyncowgirl]

2. Listening to their responses to preventing people on the terrorist watch list from buying guns. No.

In a sane world yes but we are not living in rational times.

Their excuses are ridiculous. Oh the watch list is often wrong, why should be prevent someone from exercising their rights just because the GOVERNMENT thinks they are terrorists. These people can't get on a plane but they can go out and buy unlimited amounts of guns and ammunition. It makes no sense.

[EL34x4]

3. Was Syed Rizwan Farook on the terrorist watchlist?

If so, it didn't prevent him from flying to Saudi Arabia recently and returning with his wife.

Be careful what you wish for. The Right will go along with this gun control effort if they're allowed to put every last single Muslim in America on the terrorist watchlist, something Donald Trump is probably already thinking about.

[bklyncowgirl]

9. So you support the right of persons on the no fly list to buy weapons?

A person can't get on an airplane but they can by unlimited amounts of deadly weapons and ammunition. Really?

Your argument that every Muslim in America will be placed on the terrorist watch list is slippery slope thinking at the worst. Yes, it could happen, anything is possible but we are talking about millions of people. It is highly unlikely.

It seems to me that every time one of these shootings happens 2nd Amendment supporters chime in with "oh that wouldn't have stopped this PARTICULAR shooter--except of course when a proper background check would have at least made it more difficult for the shooter to acquire weapons such as in the case of the Charleston shooter.

Well why should we make it easy for terrorists, criminals, religious wackos and garden variety spouse abusers to get weapons?

Background checks at the most are a minor inconvenience for honest citizens and gun dealers. Why

[EL34x4]

11. I support people being placed on "no fly" lists

After due process has taken place and where the person being placed on this list has the right to appeal it. And after this due process has occurred, being on a government "no fly" list can become a prohibitive factor added to the 4473 form to transfer a firearm.

I'm not a big fan of secret lists.

[bklyncowgirl]

12. Neither am I. There should be due process and there must be an appeal process.

I think we can agree on that. Until these reforms are made, I am still against these people being allowed to buy weapons just as a precaution.

[KamaAina]

14. Saudi Arabia? Our staunch and wonderful ally Saudi Arabia?

That's where this guy supposedly got radicalized? Hmmmmm.

[Fast Walker 52]

4. In a word "no"

sadly...

[maxsolomon]

5. Nope.

Unless there will be discriminatory laws targeting Muslims, which I wouldn't put past a GOP Administration.

Hell in a handcart.

[ecstatic]

6. If Sandy Hook couldn't change the game, nothing will

Imho

[awoke_in_2003]

7. No

They will just advocate not allowing brown people to buy guns.

[pinstikfartherin]

8. Nope.

Carly has already said that people on the terror watch list shouldn't be banned from buying guns. That tells you all you need to know.

[MohRokTah]

10. Nope. eom

[TipTok]

13. Nope...

Rightly so... The fear of terrorism, specifically the Islamic variant, already drives too much of our policy.