Marco Rubio Wants People on the No-Fly List to Be Able to Buy Guns, But the NSA Should Be Allowed to Spy At Will
Marco Rubio isn’t entirely wrong about the no-fly list; it is overly broad, violates due process, and there are people on it who probably shouldn’t be. But in what world does it make sense to say that someone shouldn’t be allowed on an airplane because they’re a possible threat — but they can legally buy as many guns as they want?
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) says a majority of the people on the federal “no-fly list” do not belong there and therefore should not have their right to purchase firearms taken away.
“These are everyday Americans that have nothing to do with terrorism, they wind up on the no-fly list, there’s no due process or any way to get your name removed from it in a timely fashion, and now they’re having their Second Amendment rights being impeded upon,” Rubio said on CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday.
This is Republican hypocrisy in your face. The no-fly list is very much a GOP creation to begin with, but suddenly they’re criticizing it because … guns.
They fight tooth and nail to stop any and all proposals to deal with America’s out-of-control gun problem, but they’ll offer their sincere thoughts and prayers after the next horrible massacre.
And in the very same appearance on CNN’s State of the Union, Rubio turned around and said NSA reforms are hurting us and he wants to reverse them, so the NSA will be able to spy on Americans again.
The 2016 GOP presidential candidate cited a report from The Associated Press on Saturday that said the FBI only has access to roughly two years of phone records from phone companies, because the five years’ worth of telephone records from the NSA are now off limits as of this week.
“Our intelligence gathering capabilities have been significantly diminished just in the last four or five days,” Rubio said on CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday.
Rubio pushed for President Barack Obama to work with Congress to reverse the changes to the NSA’s bulk collection policies.
So the Second Amendment must be upheld at all costs, but the Fourth Amendment can be tossed in the garbage. Man, these people.