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In reply to the discussion: If Senate Democrats had accepted due process, we would have gun control [View all]Chan790
(20,176 posts)Which is frankly strange to me because I'd think they'd know it better than most people...the government is a bureaucracy that tends to make mistakes and bury them in miles of inscrutable paper until they're no longer decipherable from the truth without great scrutiny, the sort that requires actual human investigations, the involvement of a human arbiter (to wit, a judge) and several hours or days.
So yes, that evidence exists, to be plugged into a form...and in the case of people wrongfully on no-fly, it wrongfully exists. it is either evidence of nothing or worse "legit" evidence generated by bureaucracy based on previous bureaucratic output generated by bureaucracy built on a foundation of fundamental error. Under investigation, it reveals itself...but simply slapped into a form, it's indiscernible from legitimate evidence.
If we went by the procedure you've supposed in your post...we end up with many many wrongful rejections and just as many wrongful approvals; benefiting nobody and harming lawful gun owners as much as it harms the public welfare.
Rapidity should not be a legitimate excuse to excuse thoroughness and accuracy. Why limit us to 72 hours when the correct result can be achieved in less than 120 hours most of the time, especially when the stakes of error are so high?