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The New York Times: Today's Editorials (Forum/Message Board)

Terror Suspects' Right to Bear Arms

Good Lord. There They Go Again

..."proposing to keep the gun-purchase records of terror suspects on hand for at least 10 years."
Gun purchase records (the Yellow Form) is not filed or "kept" by the government at all. They are kept by the dealer with his "bound book". If Lautenberg wants those forms collected filed and kept by the government that is the same as proposing Registration and that is why the law does not permit it. This misinformation piece makes it sound like the records are already collected by the feds and the only change is to extend the time for keeping them to ten years. Distortion.

"...but federal agents complain that they are still stymied by laws..." It has always been thus. Stymied by the Fifth Amendment, stymied by the Sixth Amendment, the Fourth Amendment, the Miranda Rule, the Second Amendment. Miller, Cooper and the NYT are stymied by the Grand Jury, so there.

"...the citizenry's near-almighty right to bear arms." Huh? Who bears arms in Times Square, New York, NY? Are they admitting there is an individual right? Tell the city. Tell Bernie Goetz. Hyperbole to the point of deception. For shame.

"...enabled dozens of suspects to stock their personal or group armories." Suspects? What are suspects? Innocent until proven guilty, no? Would the NYTimes have the government withhold the rights afforded to every citizen from those who a government agent labels as "suspects"?

And more to the point, is there any reason why those "suspects" who filled out the Yellow Form and acquired a firearm are not NOW being arrested and their firearms confiscated as evidence?

Yes, the reason is that they did not break any law in purchasing those guns. So the Times wants laws enforced against innocent people as if they were convicted felons because they are viewed as "suspect"! Like Martin Luther King, John Lennon, Skitch Henderson, Charles Kuralt, Daniel Schoor, Bill Clinton, Billy Carter and every other person that has been listed somewhere, in some case, by some cop, as a suspect.

Why is it when guns are involved, the mind of liberals stops functioning and they revert to reflex and nonesense? To arguments they would never dream of proposing an any other context.

Terry
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