Trump to meet with NRA about banning gun sales for terror watch list

[gejohnston]

1. I just leave Trump with this

“[Coming] under investigation just means that somebody made an accusation. It doesn’t mean that there was any justification for that accusation. The idea that people would lose one of their rights . . . because somebody because had made the accusation against them would make the United States a very dangerous place to live.” – Former FBI agent Michael German

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/06/13/no-law-would-have-stopped-orlando-shooter-buying-guns/85834802/?AID=10709313&PID=6164564&SID=iph2yjm447015ahb00dth
http://www.morningjournal.com/general-news/20100629/our-view-editorial-keeping-6-year-old-girl-on-the-terrorist-no-fly-list-is-plainly-absurd
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/20/us/senator-terrorist-a-watch-list-stops-kennedy-at-airport.html
http://www.thenation.com/article/whys-retired-army-lieutenant-colonel-no-fly-list/
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/12284855#.V2F_wnUrJpQ
https://www.aclu.org/unlikely-suspects?redirect=technology-and-liberty/unlikely-suspects
I doubt things have improved over the past decade.
The list is one of the Bush administration's bad ideas that should be discarded.