3) If we want to deprive people of 2A rights selectively--I'm okay with that!!!--give them real due process. Not bullshit secret court BS.
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4) Correx: Assuming 10% of watchlist wants to buy guns it will TRIPLE FISC workload, as well as that of special lawyers who work with it.
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5) We are not Russia. We are not Saudi Arabia. We are the US of Fucking A. Why are we peeing our pants about due process?
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6) Real honest to god adversarial courts deal w/secret evidence ALL THE TIME NOW. But they couldn't for a No-Fly-No-Gun list? No. Nope. No.
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@LemonSlayerUS reminds me, people on No Fly List KNOW THEY'RE ON THE LIST! It's not like secret wiretaps because SHIT HAPPENS IRL.2 replies 0 retweets 12 likes -
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No-fly list is essentially black market-proof. You can't steal a seat on a plane from some guy's car.
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But Dem nominee more or less campaigned on the existence of a thriving black market in guns.
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So either ban assault weapons or don't but don't apply no-fly list logic to guns cuz it doesn't work the same.
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Nah. It doesn't work for no-fly either. Flying is just not enshrined, good or bad, in Constitution.
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Won't argue that, but would you agree no-fly approach applied to guns works even less well?
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I'd say they're equally horrible. @LemonSlayerUS
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Fair. Thank you for indulging my foray into an ultimately pointless distinction, though!
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