A leading gun-rights advocate says he is glad Senate leaders will allow votes on a pair of gun-control measures in the wake of Sunday’s terrorist attack in Orlando, so that all lawmakers can be put on the record for their votes and because it shows which politicians are willing to trash critical constitutional protections for the sake of their agendas.
“A gun doesn’t have a brain to hate with or a finger to pull it’s own trigger. In this case, it was done by a terrorist who committed mass murder,” said Second Amendment Foundation founder Alan Gottlieb. “The question we have here is: How do we get those people off the streets without infringing on people’s rights to own a firearm for legitimate lawful purposes, including the right to protect yourself from a terrorist?”
Gottlieb is also chairman of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms.
On Thursday, Democrats, led by Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., ended a 15-hour filibuster after Senate Republican leaders agreed to hold two gun-control votes next week. While some Second Amendment defenders saw the GOP move as capitulation, Gottlieb welcomes it with open arms.
“I’m glad, quite frankly, that they agreed to it because I’d like to see people put on the record for where they stand and who’s going to support Second Amendment rights,” Gottlieb told WND and Radio America. “Who’s going to support just plain legal due process rights for all Americans in general? It’s not just gun rights we’re talking about here. You take people’s due process rights away, you’ve got a tyrannical government.”
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Gottlieb is referring to the Democrat proposal getting the most attention, the so-called “no fly-no buy” legislation that would prohibit anyone on the terrorism watch list or the TSA’s “no-fly list” from being able to purchase a firearm.
Polls taken in the wake of the Orlando attack suggest the public is largely in favor of the idea. Gottlieb said he wants to keep guns out of the hands of terrorists as much as anyone, but not at the expense of Americans’ constitutional rights.
“Without proper protections for people to find out if they’re on the no-fly list and a quick way to get off it if they’re wrongly put on it, it’s hard to support this. As currently written, it is a civil rights nightmare,” said Gottlieb, who elaborated on why he reached that conclusion.
“It’s an anti-Second Amendment bureaucrat’s dream come true,” Gottlieb said. “There are thousands of people wrongly on the no-fly list who would lose their Second Amendment rights. President Obama, Hillary Clinton and the gun prohibition lobby that supports their anti-rights agenda cannot be trusted with that kind of power.”
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He said right now it is very difficult for Americans to get off these lists once they discover they’ve been added.
“It’s not just putting more people on the list wrongly, it’s getting people on the list wrongly now, getting them off the list,” Gottlieb explained. “We think there are ways to protect due process rights by allowing people to go to court to get their names off the list in quick fashion that doesn’t cost them any money so they don’t lose their Second Amendment rights.”
On Thursday, Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.V., told MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that due process was a big problem in trying to stop terrorists and mass shooters.
“The problem we have, and really the firewall we have right now is due process. It’s all due process,” Manchin said. “So we can all say we want the same thing, but how do we get there?”
Gottlieb said due process must be cherished as much as any other right found in the U.S. Constitution.
“You have no way of knowing you’re on the ‘no fly-no buy list.’ You go to purchase a firearm to protect your Second Amendment rights. All of a sudden, you don’t have that right anymore, and you can’t even figure out how your name got on the list, and there’s no legal way to get your name off the list,” he said. “You lose your rights forever, and you didn’t even do anything. That’s very un-American.”
Despite all the rhetoric, Gottlieb is confident “no fly-no buy” will be defeated.
“When the Senate really gets to this and takes a look at it, they will not adopt anything without due-process protections for American citizens,” he said.
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Gottlieb said the measure to expand background checks and mandate such checks for all gun sales commercial and private is also missing the mark.
“Any licensed gun dealer who sells a gun at a gun show has to put a person through a background check before they buy a gun. However, if a private person selling or trading from their collection, they don’t have to go through a background check under federal law. They do in many states, however,” said Gottlieb, who is quick to point out that provision would not have stopped any of the recent terrorists.
“The terrorist in Orlando went through a background check. The shooter in the San Bernardino terrorist attack went through a background check. So when they try to push an agenda that doesn’t solve a particular problem at hand, they’re being disingenuous about their proposals to start with,” Gottlieb said.
He said he’s tired of of guns and the Second Amendment being blamed for the actions of people.
“The terrorist in Orlando didn’t swear allegiance to the Second Amendment,” Gottlieb said. “He swore allegiance to ISIS. We should be going after ISIS, not going after America’s Second Amendment rights.”
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