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41. Okay

All that stuff you listed entails regulation. Those regulations are specific to the function of those objects and activities. Guns have regulations as well which are specific to their use. But you have yet to justify the regulations you endorse with any reference to their efficacy. And you have yet to offer any explanation why people should accept the erosion of security and privacy they will entail. You want more strings? Fine. Prove they will work and worth relinquishing a measure of our civil rights to have them.

There is a huge difference between advocacy and citizenship. Just because someone with a "D" behind their name proposes something doesn't mean we should leap to support it. That's an authoritarian/Republican trait. Legislation is not a consumer product. That legislation wasn't written just for you, and nobody is obligated to support it just because you say so. Any true liberal would consider the impact of that legislation on law abiding citizens as well as criminals.

And a note on "no fly lists". They were a Bush era policy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Fly_List

The No Fly List, the Selectee List and the Terrorist Watchlist were created by the administration of George W. Bush and retained by the administration of Barack Obama. U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein (ed. that name sounds familiar) (D-CA) said in May 2010: “The no-fly list itself is one of our best lines of defense.”[11]

So you're supporting the policies of the Bush administration, asserting the authority of rules exclusive of their practicality, offering punishment as a solution to social problems, demanding legislation to satisfy your personal proclivities without evidence, and ignoring how your policy proposals will affect others. That's a pretty sweet cocktail of libertarian/authoritarian thinking there.