The National Rifle Association is fighting for people on the terror-watch list to own guns. Many members of the terror watch list are not even permitted to be passengers on planes, but more than 80% of them could buy a gun when they wanted to!

Before, I go on writing this article, I would like to make somethings clear. I am not a bit of a fan of guns at all. I think that they do not belong to a society at all. I would give some leeway to difference of thought when it comes to self protection with a handgun, but I do not tolerate GPMGs, AK-47s, grenades or M16s in neighborhoods at all.

But has the NRA gone nuts?! To me, this action equates to suspect pedophiles giving one to one tuition to minors. I equate this to allowing suspect arsonists buying flame throwers. This is seriously disturbing. Fighting the right for a suspect terrorist to buy 50lb of explosives? How in the hell are you going to defend that? They need bombs for self protection?

The NRA claims that people cannot be stripped of their rights just because they are on the terror lists. Well, they must be! If they cannot get from point A to point B by plane, how can they have a gun or bomb. They have their phones tapped without a warrant and people watching them (invasion of privacy), especially if they give sermons or speak out.

If someone feels that they are being wronged, they should not fight for their 2nd Amendment rights; they should fight not to be on that list! Isn’t that common sense? It would be like Jews fighting to be artists in Nazi Germany, rather than fighting Nazi oppression.

Look, I trust the US intelligence agencies. Yes, we know that they have made mistakes in their past and I still do not agree with water-boarding or Guantanamo Bay, but I would still trust the agencies. I think that we should be so conspiratorial. Lets give people doing their jobs the benefit of the doubt, but lets voice our opinion on matters that they are wrong in.

The issue though would blow out to be just about politics. That is sad. The Republicans would fight tooth and nail for the NRA and the Democrats would make them out to be Satans. How many times have we heard stupid rumors that President Obama was going to take away your guns?

You really want to know how hypocritical politics is: We should torture people that we think are terrorists, but they should have the right to have guns and explosives. This is the Republican version of the ACLU stopping people from exercising their right to free speech to protest against illegal immigration!

I really hope that we are going to approach matters from a point of common sense and not party affiliations.

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