With Monday's debate being a huge tree rich with low hanging fruit to analyze, an important nugget
hasn't gotten the attention it deserves
. There's nothing shocking about Hillary agreeing that anyone on a terror no-fly and watch lists should be banned from buying guns. The stunner was when Trump wholeheartedly agreed:
First of all, I agree, and a lot of people even within my own party want to give certain rights to people on watch lists and no- fly lists. I agree with you. When a person is on a watch list or a no-fly list, and I have the endorsement of the NRA, which I'm very proud of. These are very, very good people, and they're protecting the Second Amendment.
But I think we have to look very strongly at no-fly lists and watch lists. And when people are on there, even if they shouldn't be on there, we'll help them, we'll help them legally, we'll help them get off. But I tend to agree with that quite strongly.
A caller to my show howled about this on Tuesday. Trump's meltdown is generating all the criticism of his performance. But conservative and gun rights voters in general should take heed of this. Trump did offer a relatively meaningless caveat that we need to make sure the lists don't include people who don't belong on them, but that process will never be perfect.
Beyond that, as the Weekly Standard points out, the proposal is unconstitutional because it denies people their 2nd Amendment rights for being under suspicion and not convicted of any crime.
