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Eugene

(62,650 posts)
Thu Dec 10, 2015, 01:46 PM Dec 2015

Connecticut to limit access to guns for people on watch lists: governor

Source: Reuters

Business | Thu Dec 10, 2015 12:59pm EST

Connecticut to limit access to guns for people on watch lists: governor

Connecticut is taking steps to block people who are banned from flying on commercial airliners from obtaining firearms permits, the state's Democratic governor, Dannel Malloy said on Thursday.

"If you cannot fly due to being on a watch list, you shouldn't be able to purchase a firearm," Malloy said. "Since Congress so far as failed to act, we well."

(Reporting by Scott Malone in Boston)


http://www.reuters.com/article/us-connecticut-guns-idUSKBN0TT2EM20151210
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Connecticut to limit access to guns for people on watch lists: governor (Original Post) Eugene Dec 2015 OP
there's one saturnsring Dec 2015 #1
Thanks for letting us know that you support the Bush era secret govt lists. eom. GGJohn Dec 2015 #12
im anti child killing but you already knew this -in response i could say saturnsring Dec 2015 #14
Do you even know how someone ends up on those lists? GGJohn Dec 2015 #15
yes that should be fixed - but that doesnt change my opinion on this saturnsring Dec 2015 #17
So you're all for denial of due process because of GUNS? GGJohn Dec 2015 #18
im all for doing something about the gun problem we have here saturnsring Dec 2015 #20
"doing something"? virginia mountainman Dec 2015 #22
Ok, you just answered my question. GGJohn Dec 2015 #23
When fascism comes to the US, it will arrive curled in the fetal position and demanding "SECURITY!" dairydog91 Dec 2015 #25
What a waste of time yeoman6987 Dec 2015 #26
Bravo DebbieCDC Dec 2015 #2
See post #12. eom. GGJohn Dec 2015 #13
Subscribing to the Bush-Cheney, Inc. methodology. Eleanors38 Dec 2015 #3
Nothing like tying a civil liberty to a secret list... with ZERO recourse too the innocent. virginia mountainman Dec 2015 #4
IIRC Ted Kennedy spent time on the no-fly list n/t discntnt_irny_srcsm Dec 2015 #5
He was influential enough to get it taken care of shadowrider Dec 2015 #6
That will be met with a "due process" suit rather quickly. ManiacJoe Dec 2015 #7
problem is standing Duckhunter935 Dec 2015 #8
Yes, that will slow down the suit initially. ManiacJoe Dec 2015 #9
Won't be that hard to find someone from CT, who knows they have... virginia mountainman Dec 2015 #11
So, another Democrat in favor of the Bush era secret govt. lists, GGJohn Dec 2015 #10
Once upon a time, sarisataka Dec 2015 #16
Eugene, does "Anything you can do, I can do better" sum up Democrats NOW? Eleanors38 Dec 2015 #19
If you are a suspected terrorist DirtDart1319 Dec 2015 #21
You are certainly too dangerous to be allowed in a Planned Parenthood clinic! dairydog91 Dec 2015 #24
No one on the (formerly Bush/Cheney) watch list should be allowed to vote either of course DonP Dec 2015 #28
How do they know who is on the list? oneshooter Dec 2015 #27
 

saturnsring

(1,832 posts)
14. im anti child killing but you already knew this -in response i could say
Fri Dec 11, 2015, 11:33 AM
Dec 2015

it's a shame your gun-lust trumps child protections - oops did I play an emotion card again?
if youre too dangerous to fly on a plane youre too dangerous to own a deadly weapon

GGJohn

(9,951 posts)
15. Do you even know how someone ends up on those lists?
Fri Dec 11, 2015, 11:36 AM
Dec 2015

Do you know the mechanism for getting your name removed from those lists?
Do you know that T. Kennedy was stopped from boarding an aircraft because a name similar to his was on that list?


GGJohn

(9,951 posts)
18. So you're all for denial of due process because of GUNS?
Fri Dec 11, 2015, 12:02 PM
Dec 2015

Do you think there should even be secret govt lists?

GGJohn

(9,951 posts)
23. Ok, you just answered my question.
Sat Dec 12, 2015, 07:54 AM
Dec 2015

You're all for the Bush era secret govt lists.

How very progressive of you.

dairydog91

(951 posts)
25. When fascism comes to the US, it will arrive curled in the fetal position and demanding "SECURITY!"
Sat Dec 12, 2015, 01:30 PM
Dec 2015

Hell, it's largely what Trump is running on. A general sentiment of "I FEEL SCARED AND THOSE OTHER PEOPLE ARE THE PROBLEM", a blithering disrespect for due process, transparency, and any other form of process designed to protect the country from authoritarian/monarchist rule, and a hostility towards anyone who gets in the way of "solving problems". Authoritarians often seem to come down to this form of sneering bedwetting, simultaneously jeering at anyone who is critical of their politics and wringing their hands about the Terrible Threats which require Strong Solutions.

virginia mountainman

(5,046 posts)
4. Nothing like tying a civil liberty to a secret list... with ZERO recourse too the innocent.
Thu Dec 10, 2015, 03:34 PM
Dec 2015

Bush-co would be proud

 

Duckhunter935

(16,974 posts)
8. problem is standing
Thu Dec 10, 2015, 10:06 PM
Dec 2015

can't sue is you are not harmed and can't prove it as the list is secret. I love democrats that agree with Bush on his secret lists,

virginia mountainman

(5,046 posts)
11. Won't be that hard to find someone from CT, who knows they have...
Fri Dec 11, 2015, 01:02 AM
Dec 2015

Been denied a flight because of being on the list, while being completely clean otherwise.... Bet a good lawyer, will even give him/her the money to buy the gun with.. Just to "set the table" for a lawsuit.

GGJohn

(9,951 posts)
10. So, another Democrat in favor of the Bush era secret govt. lists,
Thu Dec 10, 2015, 11:42 PM
Dec 2015

and I see some DU'ers here who are in favor of those secret lists, even though we all know that if it was about anything else but firearms, they'd be screaming bloody murder about how unconstitutional these secret lists are.

Can we say rank hypocrisy?

 

Eleanors38

(18,318 posts)
19. Eugene, does "Anything you can do, I can do better" sum up Democrats NOW?
Fri Dec 11, 2015, 12:24 PM
Dec 2015

I hope not; otherwise, it would be a disturbing moral overhaul of that BushCheney™ measure.

BTW, song was from the Broadway musical Annie Get Your Gun.

DirtDart1319

(13 posts)
21. If you are a suspected terrorist
Sat Dec 12, 2015, 01:15 AM
Dec 2015

If you are a suspected terrorist and are too dangerous to be allowed on a plane, and too dangerous to be allowed to purchase a firearm, are you too dangerous to be allowed to vote? If you can deny someone one right because they are on a secret watch list, can't you deny them other rights as well?

dairydog91

(951 posts)
24. You are certainly too dangerous to be allowed in a Planned Parenthood clinic!
Sat Dec 12, 2015, 01:29 PM
Dec 2015

That's why I support the NO TERRORISTS IN WOMEN'S HEALTH CENTERS ACT. Under this, anyone on a federal terrorist watchlist will be guilty of a felony if they enter any women's health clinic. I foresee no problems with this program, and I don't see why anyone would oppose it unless they are part of the War on Women. Are you part of the War on Women? I hope not. Really, the worst that could happen is that some John-Ashcroft-type Attorney General would have a list of people who could be punished if they enter a women's health center, the power to place anyone on this list without having to consult the legislature or any judges, and the power to claim that the entire process was classified. What could go wrong?

 

DonP

(6,185 posts)
28. No one on the (formerly Bush/Cheney) watch list should be allowed to vote either of course
Tue Dec 15, 2015, 03:53 PM
Dec 2015

It's just "common sense" that any name on a secret government watch list should be stopped at the polling place and held pending further charges.

So I'm sure all the people so properly concerned about gun sales will also not mind if everyone has to prove they are not on the list before being allowed to vote, right?

Just a quick state issued ID check, maybe a DNA swap if they're still not sure.

oneshooter

(8,614 posts)
27. How do they know who is on the list?
Tue Dec 15, 2015, 02:43 PM
Dec 2015

It is, after all a SECRET federal government list. One that no state official can get access to.

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