“If the FBI is watching you for suspected terrorist links,” Hillary Clinton said today in her supposedly apolitical speech, “you shouldn’t be able to just go buy a gun.”Aside from this "best idea of the day", Harsanyi gets this bonus point:
If we’re going to do this, let’s be consistent.
If the FBI is conducting a criminal investigation of your suspected illegal use of a home email server to transmit classified intelligence, you shouldn’t be allowed to just go and run for president. Obviously. The idea that we would allow a person who can’t be trusted with our most vital secrets to hold the most powerful office in the nation is absurd. It’s just not safe.
...by the way, no one “is able to just go buy a gun.” Omar Mateen reportedly passed a background check. He was not on a terror watchlist, according to a U.S. intelligence source, so none of this would have mattered anyway. As far as we know, the FBI had questioned him and then removed him from the list once it closed its investigation. That is not a failure of gun laws, if anything, it’s a failure of law enforcement.Allow me to reiterate: Omar Mateen had been under investigation by the FBI. Even if they had him on any kind of "no gun-buying" watchlist, they took him off when the investigation was over, which then allowed him to go buy guns and kill 49 people in an Orlando night club.
So Hillary's "if you're on an FBI watchlist" comment was irrelevant at best.
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