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In reply to the discussion: Democrats push to prevent gun sales to those on terror list [View all]Lizzie Poppet
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It's difficult to get a solid number (lack of transparency is one of the list's big issues), but there are somewhere between 700k and 1.5m people on the terror watch list. That's an unusable number for anything beyond scripted database searches - that is, there are so many names that a human being trying to analyze the data looking for patterns, etc., would be overwhelmed.
The huge number also almost certainly means that the majority of list members aren't actually terror threats (if they were, we'd have Paris-style incidents once a week). I have a big problem with denying an enumerated constitutional right on the basis of a list that is virtually certain to be comprised mainly of innocent people. Moreover, I'd be willing to bet the farm that a lot of those innocent people on the list got there solely on the basis of looking Middle Eastern. Fuck racial profiling.
Due process, people...it's not just a good idea, it's the law.
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