Politics Unfiltered

[Warlord]

(06-15-2016 11:18 AM)Maxy Wrote:  See this is the bit I don't get when it comes to the apparent ease with which he was legally able to buy the guns he used to carry out the attack. Like, is there no red flag kinda monitoring system in place whereby somebody who has been investigated, despite not actually being charged, has to say for example, require further clearance before being permitted to buy the guns?

If not could this be implemented or would it be against the constitutional right to bare arms?

Maxy, I don't disagree with anything you've said here. I don't think it would be unconstitutional to really ratchet up the background checks and investigative procedures for people who want to buy guns but have been put on a no-fly list or investigated by the FBI for possible links to terrorism. I mean, I'm the biggest 2nd amendment rights person on this board, but we've got to have some common fucking sense about this shit. There's got to be a happy medium between law abiding citizens being able to get guns, and setting up a more strenuous system to vet people like Mateen, who have raised red flags in their past.