House GOP: OK to Sell Guns to Terrorists

[The Dharma Bum]

Why do you want to put people on watch lists and shit?

[The Comrade]

this thread

[Indy]

Guys, I'm trying to help you out here and you just keep piling on with the strawmen and that's not helping your case.

Help me. Help you. But actually maybe you can help me here.

We can't close the gun show loophole because you argue that nobody should be interfering in a private transaction between seller and purchaser. Got it.

...unless the seller decides not to sell to a purchaser because he's flagged as a terrorist risk. In that case you want to take the decision OUT of the seller's hands.

In other words, you want to deny a seller information that would lead to him/her making an informed decision. THEIR decision.

Um, what?

[The Comrade]

i want watch lists to go away and to tell the government to eat my dick. that's what i want.

[The Dharma Bum]

Thank you

[Indy]

So your sole motivation here is not to keep guns/explosives out of the hands of terrorists, it's that you want to terminate any gov't "list."

Hmmm.

Let's say a well-known Mexican drug cartel kingpin wants to make a purchase of guns and a seller has access to this information via a gov't "list."

Should we sell to him, then? Because unless he walks in and says "I'm buying these for the Zetas," the seller wouldn't be any the wiser.

Does the gov't not provide a "list" of felony convictions which sellers can access? So you're for that, but against this.

Thoughts?

If a cop pulls me over for a traffic stop, he's going to run my license on a gov't list. Are you telling me we should deny him that access?

[BlueSpade]

[Indy]

Annnnd yet another heckling broadside that counters nothing.

You guys do realize, right, that when presented with somebody questioning your assertions you're just lashing out? Right?

Where are the arguments?

[BlueSpade]

[The Dharma Bum]

What we need is a watch list for dumbasses.