PA Bill Number: HB2311
Title: Establishing the School Mental Health Screening Grant and Development Program.
Description: Establishing the School Mental Health Screening Grant and Development Program. ...
Last Action: Laid on the table
Last Action Date: Sep 23, 2024
Activists urge Democrat lawmakers to drop racist anti-gun bill :: 06/24/2016
Democrats frothing at the mouth to make it more difficult for some Americans to exercise their 2nd Amendment rights are pushing extremely racist notions by way of the no fly/no buy gun bill.
And that’s not according to me or other conservatives—it’s the opinion of liberal critics of the Democrats’ new favorite anti-firearm legislation.
Alex Pareene, editor of the left-leaning news gossip website Gawker, recently scolded Democrat lawmakers in a column on the site for blindly supporting “a measure that isn’t just ineffective but also actively offensive.”
The problem, according to the author, is one that critics of the government’s flawed terror watch lists have been pointing out for years.
“The no-fly list is a civil rights disaster by every conceivable standard. It is secret, it disproportionately affects Arab-Americans, it is error-prone, there is no due process or effective recourse for people placed on the list, and it constantly and relentlessly expands,” he wrote. “As of 2014, the government had a master watchlist of 680,000 people, forty percent of whom had ‘no recognized terrorist group affiliation.’ This is both an absurdly large number of people to arbitrarily target in gun control legislation, and far, far too few to have any meaningful effect on actual gun ownership, let alone gun violence.”
Journalist Glenn Greenwald expressed a similar sentiment via Twitter, musing: “I wonder who Democrats think will end up on these secret suspicion-based lists they are trying to implement? Any guesses?”
And even CAIR chimed in against the legislation, saying the bill gives the sense that the bills supporters only want to place “constitutional limitations on the American Muslim community, which is disproportionately impacted by federal watch lists.”
The American Civil Liberties Union, a longtime critic of the government’s terror watch list, is urging Democrat lawmakers to vote against any legislation that would attempt to tie constitutional rights to “the error-prone and unfair watchlist system.”
http://personalliberty.com/activists-urge-democrat-lawmakers-to-drop-racist-no-fly-gun-bill/
