Democrats push to prevent gun sales to those on terror list

[NutmegYankee]

50. You stated clearly that you were not concerned about civil liberties.

And in fact in this entire discussion, you've never managed to counter the fact that this law would violate the right to due process before a civil liberty is removed. Many DUers remember the rampant abuse of watch lists during the previous presidency. I can link to dozens of articles of people incorrectly denied access to flights, some of them veterans, because their name had made it onto a watch list.

A judge is not holding a hearing to put these individuals on a list. Some unaccountable person is making this decision, and those on the list can't even challenge it because the government often refuses to identify if the person is even on the list. One of the reasons I voted for President Obama was to eliminate this atrocity against civil liberties.

As I stated way up above - this has nothing to do with guns. It's about protecting the limitation that prevents the government from deciding to disenfranchise people on a whim. At the end of the day the bill of rights protects the rights of citizens by preventing the government from passing various laws that would compromise those rights.