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If we are to remain a free nation, we have to adheer to the constitution, as inconvenient as it may be.

Originally Posted By BigChief870
If we are to remain a free nation, we have to adheer to the constitution, as inconvenient as it may be.


This guy gets it.

This is in a blog in our local paper.


Risch Calls for 'Third Way,' Leery on More Gun Restrictions in Wake of Orlando Shooting
NATHAN BROWN nbrownmagicvalley.com 4 hrs ago 0
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U.S. Sen. Jim Risch says the Orlando shooting should lead us to take “a third way” in dealing with such attacks, rather than either the gun restrictions presumptive Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton has been calling for or the ban on Muslim immigration preferred by presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump.

Risch, R-Idaho, who is on the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on Monday that we should look “in a very granular fashion” at how the FBI handled the case, and other cases where people who went on to commit terrorist acts were investigated but cleared, and how each could have been handled better. The Orlando shooter, Omar Mateen, had come up twice in FBI probes before over suspected radical sympathies but the investigations fizzled out when agents concluded there was no basis for arrest or further monitoring.

Risch told Blitzer that he would he oppose banning people on terrorist watch lists from buying guns, which Democrats have been calling for, unless there is a process put in place where a person can defend themselves.

“If they’re simply on a list, that’ll never ever pass constitutional muster,” he said.

Risch said that taking away someone’s right to buy a gun is different than putting them on the “no fly list,” because the right to buy a gun, unlike the ability to board an airplane, is guaranteed in the U.S. Constitution.

Risch said Mateen seems to have acted out of multiple motives, and that his actions could have been a homophobic hate crime, inspired by his sympathies for radical Islamic terrorists and also a symptom of his apparent mental instability — Mateen’s ex-wife has said he was unstable and beat and abused her, and others who knew him have also described him as short-tempered with a violent streak — all simultaneously.

“Which one was the one that was the greatest motive, I don’t think anyone will ever know,” he said.

Risch disagreed with Blitzer’s contention that there is a “disturbing pattern” of people being investigated for potential terrorist ties who go on to commit terrorist acts after the cases are closed. In America, Risch said, you need evidence and an overt action to arrest someone, not just thoughts.

“Simply thoughts, simply sympathies, as abhorrent as it is with radical Islamic terrorism, is not enough,” he said.

Islam is a mental illness. This dude was mentally ill, not just "unstable".

War precludes some Constitutional freedom, historically.