Obama: It is ‘insane’ to let people on no-fly list buy guns

Well, I find it insane that the government has decided to take rights away from people who haven't even yet been charged with a crime, let alone convicted.

I find it sad that the media and, through them, most of the public, are so easily duped by a totally false story.

The vote in question failed because it was strictly an attempt to derail the ObamaCare repeal and had nothing to do with actual gun legislation (it would have been unenforceable anyway, being in the wrong realm of U.S. Code). That is why it was RULED OUT OF ORDER.

Specifically:

Here's the proposed language it is looking to overlay: https://www.congress.gov/congressional-record/2015/12/01/sen... (the Obamacare component repeal)

Now, here's the Feinstein amendment (scroll down to "SA 2910" portion, read it only): https://www.congress.gov/amendment/114th-congress/senate-ame...

Now, if you look at the amendment in a vacuum, it looks sorta like what it claims (but it looks odd, to the experienced eye, because there is no mention of a specific criteria for "terrorist" or refer to the FBI watchlist by its proper statute name). Plus, it's in the wrong Title of U.S. Code anyway. So it wouldn't have any effect on its own, being unenforceable vague.

But that's not the point.

Now, note carefully how the legislation starts: "In lieu of the matter proposed to be inserted, insert the following:"

See THAT?! In LIEU OF the matter ("the matter" being ALL of SA 2874, the Obamacare repeal). In other words, strike and replace the text of SA 2874 with this text, SA 2910.

The parent bill is H.R.3762 - Restoring Americans' Healthcare Freedom Reconciliation Act of 2015, which had NOTHING to do with terrorism, or guns. That's the first clue right there.

Congressional Democrats have used this tactic (overwriting legislation they oppose with unrelated content that sounds obviously beneficial in order to trick the media into carrying water for their politicking) clear back to the Tom Foley days, if not Tip O'Neill or beyond.

The ignorant media consumers have been duped, successfully, because few bother to look at the bills...

...which, in this case, took me all of about 8-10 clicks in total.

I find it insane that the US defines liberty as a function of its capacity for violence.