People on the no-fly list should be allowed to buy guns #dosomething

By Caleb

In the wake of the terrorist attack in California, President Obama has called on Congress to “do something” about our “gun problem” – namely to make it so that people on the no-fly list would be barred from buying guns, presumably by failing a NICS check. The President even posted this image on Twitter, complete with the most passive and useless hashtag ever, which I’ve used in the post title. “#dosomething”

Congress can #DoSomething about this. pic.twitter.com/0dhwrGu7wf

— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) December 7, 2015

The problems with denying people on the no-fly list access to firearms are plentiful. The first, and obvious objection to such a measure would be that it’s completely and totally meaningless. Do you really think that a potential terrorist is going to pop down to their local Scheel’s and buy an AR15 off the rack? Of course not. We’ve been shown time and time again that people bent on illegal actions do not obtain their guns from legal, traditional sources. They use straw purchases, they steal them, or they simply buy them off the black market.

If preventing people on the no-fly list from buying guns wouldn’t deter any sort of crime, what would …Read the Rest

Source:: Gun Nuts Media