Connecticut to limit access to guns for people on watch lists: governor

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

Business | Thu Dec 10, 2015 12:59pm EST

Connecticut to limit access to guns for people on watch lists: governor

Connecticut is taking steps to block people who are banned from flying on commercial airliners from obtaining firearms permits, the state's Democratic governor, Dannel Malloy said on Thursday.

"If you cannot fly due to being on a watch list, you shouldn't be able to purchase a firearm," Malloy said. "Since Congress so far as failed to act, we well."

(Reporting by Scott Malone in Boston)

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-connecticut-guns-idUSKBN0TT2EM20151210

[saturnsring]

1. there's one

[GGJohn]

12. Thanks for letting us know that you support the Bush era secret govt lists. eom.

[saturnsring]

14. im anti child killing but you already knew this -in response i could say

it's a shame your gun-lust trumps child protections - oops did I play an emotion card again?
if youre too dangerous to fly on a plane youre too dangerous to own a deadly weapon

[GGJohn]

15. Do you even know how someone ends up on those lists?

Do you know the mechanism for getting your name removed from those lists?
Do you know that T. Kennedy was stopped from boarding an aircraft because a name similar to his was on that list?

[saturnsring]

17. yes that should be fixed - but that doesnt change my opinion on this

[GGJohn]

18. So you're all for denial of due process because of GUNS?

Do you think there should even be secret govt lists?

[saturnsring]

20. im all for doing something about the gun problem we have here

[virginia mountainman]

22. "doing something"?

Even if it means using secret lists???

How very "progressive" of you.

[GGJohn]

23. Ok, you just answered my question.

You're all for the Bush era secret govt lists.

How very progressive of you.

[dairydog91]

25. When fascism comes to the US, it will arrive curled in the fetal position and demanding "SECURITY!"

Hell, it's largely what Trump is running on. A general sentiment of "I FEEL SCARED AND THOSE OTHER PEOPLE ARE THE PROBLEM", a blithering disrespect for due process, transparency, and any other form of process designed to protect the country from authoritarian/monarchist rule, and a hostility towards anyone who gets in the way of "solving problems". Authoritarians often seem to come down to this form of sneering bedwetting, simultaneously jeering at anyone who is critical of their politics and wringing their hands about the Terrible Threats which require Strong Solutions.

[yeoman6987]

26. What a waste of time

Terrorists will go elsewhere

[DebbieCDC]

2. Bravo

[GGJohn]

13. See post #12. eom.

[Eleanors38]

3. Subscribing to the Bush-Cheney, Inc. methodology.

[virginia mountainman]

4. Nothing like tying a civil liberty to a secret list... with ZERO recourse too the innocent.

Bush-co would be proud

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

5. IIRC Ted Kennedy spent time on the no-fly list n/t

[shadowrider]

6. He was influential enough to get it taken care of

Joe Schmuck on the other hand is sh*t out of luck.

[ManiacJoe]

7. That will be met with a "due process" suit rather quickly.

[Duckhunter935]

8. problem is standing

can't sue is you are not harmed and can't prove it as the list is secret. I love democrats that agree with Bush on his secret lists,

[ManiacJoe]

9. Yes, that will slow down the suit initially.

[virginia mountainman]

11. Won't be that hard to find someone from CT, who knows they have...

Been denied a flight because of being on the list, while being completely clean otherwise.... Bet a good lawyer, will even give him/her the money to buy the gun with.. Just to "set the table" for a lawsuit.

[GGJohn]

10. So, another Democrat in favor of the Bush era secret govt. lists,

and I see some DU'ers here who are in favor of those secret lists, even though we all know that if it was about anything else but firearms, they'd be screaming bloody murder about how unconstitutional these secret lists are.

Can we say rank hypocrisy?

[sarisataka]

16. Once upon a time,

Democrats were against such lists

[Eleanors38]

19. Eugene, does "Anything you can do, I can do better" sum up Democrats NOW?

I hope not; otherwise, it would be a disturbing moral overhaul of that BushCheney™ measure.

BTW, song was from the Broadway musical Annie Get Your Gun.

[DirtDart1319]

21. If you are a suspected terrorist

If you are a suspected terrorist and are too dangerous to be allowed on a plane, and too dangerous to be allowed to purchase a firearm, are you too dangerous to be allowed to vote? If you can deny someone one right because they are on a secret watch list, can't you deny them other rights as well?

[dairydog91]

24. You are certainly too dangerous to be allowed in a Planned Parenthood clinic!

That's why I support the NO TERRORISTS IN WOMEN'S HEALTH CENTERS ACT. Under this, anyone on a federal terrorist watchlist will be guilty of a felony if they enter any women's health clinic. I foresee no problems with this program, and I don't see why anyone would oppose it unless they are part of the War on Women. Are you part of the War on Women? I hope not. Really, the worst that could happen is that some John-Ashcroft-type Attorney General would have a list of people who could be punished if they enter a women's health center, the power to place anyone on this list without having to consult the legislature or any judges, and the power to claim that the entire process was classified. What could go wrong?

[DonP]

28. No one on the (formerly Bush/Cheney) watch list should be allowed to vote either of course

It's just "common sense" that any name on a secret government watch list should be stopped at the polling place and held pending further charges.

So I'm sure all the people so properly concerned about gun sales will also not mind if everyone has to prove they are not on the list before being allowed to vote, right?

Just a quick state issued ID check, maybe a DNA swap if they're still not sure.

[oneshooter]

27. How do they know who is on the list?

It is, after all a SECRET federal government list. One that no state official can get access to.