Trump wants to ban people on the terror watch list from buying guns

Trump is set to meet with the NRA to discuss banning people who are on the terror watch list or no fly list from buying guns:

But Jim Demint points out that banning gun sales to people on a watch list wouldn’t have stopped the Orlando massacre:

“We also know that Mateen was actually once on a terrorist watch list, then taken off of it. The FBI interviewed him twice, in 2013 and 2014, because of his stated sympathies with Islamist extremists and contacts with an American who later died in a suicide bombing in Syria.”

As Erick Erickson points out, this is a terrible idea anyway:

Banning people on the terror watch list and no fly list are terrible ideas because the second amendment is a fundamental right. The Republicans proposed a plan last year killed by Democrats that would trigger a probable cause hearing if someone was flagged, but never endorsed an outright prohibition on American citizens owning guns when it could be a government screw up.

Numerous people have been put on the no fly list, for example, who do not deserve to be there. They include former Senator Ted Kennedy and Fox News contributor Steve Hayes. Not only do people get on the list inappropriately, but it is a difficult process to get off the list.

The biggest terrorist attack in American history wasn’t committed with AR-15s, but rather box cutters and planes.

But in the wake of another terrorist attack, the Democrat-led campaign for more gun-control pulls in weak Republicans (if you will) like Donald Trump, who wants to be seen as doing something about it and so they cave to the illogic of the left, as Erickson points out.

The only hope is that in his meeting with the NRA, they talk some sense back into Trump on this issue and he comes out stronger than ever on the 2nd amendment.


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