Democratic West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin complained on MSNBC’s Morning Joe Thursday morning that he wasn’t able to pass the gun control he wanted because of constitutional protections against depriving citizens of their rights without due process of the law.
“The firewall we have right now is due process,” he complained. “It’s all due process. We can all say we want the same thing, but how do we get there?”
Manchin noted that the FBI interviewed the Orlando shooter twice, but couldn’t keep him on any government lists due to a lack of evidence of wrongdoing. “They did everything they could, FBI did everything they were supposed to do, but there was no way to keep him on the nix list or keep him off the gun buy list. There was no way to do that.”
“So can’t we say if a person is under suspicion, there should be a five year period of time that we have to see if [there’s] good behavior, to see if this person continues the same traits?” he asked. “Maybe we can come to that kind of an agreement. But due process is what’s killing us now.”
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So there You Have it the Constitution is the Problem
ok now that I have gotten that out of the way let me express. I'm just as willing as any other sensible person wanting to keep guns out of Terrorist or possible Terrorist hands but we have these pesky thing called Due Process that needs to be followed anytime you suggest taking away ones rights and here in the US we have the right to own a gun
here is my suggestion the agency that wants to put suspected or possible terrorist on a list that denies them the ability to fly or buy a gun. what evidence you have that makes you want that individual on the list needs to be presented to a judge or jury and they need to follow the same standard as you would to issue a search warrant or wiretap which is the standard of Probable Cause
If Probable Cause is enough to warrant the violation of right of privacy that is good enough for me to then be allowed to violate the 2nd amendment
agreed?