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In reply to the discussion: Republicans Allow Potential Terrorist Buy Guns Legally?!?! [View all]branford
(4,462 posts)This is hardly revelation.
"I am shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!"
When the NRA, ACLU and most other civil rights groups are actually in agreement on an issue, it really speaks for itself.
Moreover, no one, liberal or conservative, is suggesting that they're against the government investigating people they reasonably suspect of plotting to kill innocent people. However, we are a nation of laws, and absent recognized due process, these suspects get to keep their constitutional rights.
I was concerned and objected to the secret lists when Bush was president, along with most progressives, and my opinion has only hardened in response to calls to expand their use, no less to deprive people of constitutional rights (and the right to own a firearm is constitutionally protected, unlike the privilege of flying).