{"id":128902,"date":"2015-11-19T21:51:05","date_gmt":"2015-11-20T04:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/19\/terror-suspects-are-allowed-to-buy-guns-because-guns.html"},"modified":"2015-11-22T10:35:23","modified_gmt":"2015-11-22T17:35:23","slug":"terror-suspects-are-allowed-to-buy-guns-because-guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/19\/terror-suspects-are-allowed-to-buy-guns-because-guns.html","title":{"rendered":"Terror suspects are allowed to buy guns, because &#8230; guns!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, I have problems with how the federal government creates lists of potential &quot;terrorist&quot; suspects \/ allies \/ affiliates \/ fellow-travelers.<\/p>\n<p>But it&#39;s ironic (read: outrageous) that at a time when we are apparently <i>terrified<\/i> that some refugees <i>might<\/i> actually turn out to be (gasp) terrorists, we are so obsessed with Gun Rights that folk identified as possible terrorist types are vigorously protected in their right to buy guns because [heavenly chord] the Second Amendment.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/wonk\/wp\/2015\/11\/16\/why-the-nra-opposed-laws-to-prevent-suspected-terrorists-from-buying-guns\/'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/VMrRXT95h4SMlDnRjlBvvSxBzQQasXRLlD17FAd-kN9O-cJvUPdKdXchUWI9F1jAP4DlrTSqBXnscLrsEpXaEcGD9JbioUmwirn3ezdyW5qWoiJbjaI7IH734WrtBkEfX1gAv7ZCKGYG_gYUvoyoa4HnZqo2WGUtEksgg5CKG3HqaRf2pCu59c9qWtzfc_O0rAAgFfwYYkSG5gcNCOVCilPSvx-X1gTVtUE=w506-h910' border='0' style='max-width:650px;'\/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/wonk\/wp\/2015\/11\/16\/why-the-nra-opposed-laws-to-prevent-suspected-terrorists-from-buying-guns\/'>From 2004 to 2014, over 2,000 terror suspects legally purchased guns in the United States<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nSuspected terrorists can freely purchase guns in the United States, and the NRA has fought to keep it that way.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/gdsEvVQfRpJ'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, I have problems with how the federal government creates lists of potential &quot;terrorist&quot; suspects \/ allies \/ affiliates \/ fellow-travelers. But it&#39;s ironic (read: outrageous) that at a time when we are apparently terrified that some refugees might actually turn out to be (gasp) terrorists, we are so obsessed with Gun Rights that folk &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/11\/19\/terror-suspects-are-allowed-to-buy-guns-because-guns.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Terror suspects are allowed to buy guns, because &#8230; guns!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,298,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-128902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-guns","category-homeland-security"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":129056,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/12\/04\/thanks-to-the-gop-suspected-terrorists-can-still-buy-guns.html","url_meta":{"origin":128902,"position":0},"title":"Thanks to the GOP, suspected terrorists can still buy guns","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 4-Dec-15 6:22am","format":false,"excerpt":"The GOP shot down, once again, a proposal that people on terrorist watch lists should not be allowed to buy guns, or explosives. 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