Stolen shamelessly from Instapundit:

“Freedom is more powerful than fear.” Now let me take your guns away based on a secret list that only I control.

Jim Geraghty writes (emphasis mine):

He made yet another pitch for barring anyone on the no-fly list or terror watch list from purchasing firearms.

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He ominously declared, “this is a matter of national security.” Yet for some reason, all of those people on the no-fly list and the terror watch list who allegedly represent a national-security threat aren’t being arrested. Earlier today Rep. Stephen Lynch (D., Mass.) disclosed that a congressional investigation recently found that at least 72 people working at the Department of Homeland Security also “were on the terrorist watch list.”

Now, I'm sure some of those people on the list are victims of "the name's the same, so they must be the same person", but 72 instances?

Also, are the virgins? asking for a jihadi...wut? whaddya mean I shouldn't quit my day job to take up comedy?

OK, I have a silly question . . .

If those on the "list" shouldn't be buying guns - why are they even here?

And, yes, IRA, if they are here - why aren't they arrested!?

This isn't a "loophole" as Schumer and others claim it to be. Quite simply, this is government incompetence!

Of course, it is all Bush's fault.

Breaking news: the New York Daily News is a terribull newspaper, and has at least one terribull writer, one Linda Stasi.

I would like to live long enough to see the material holdings of the NYDN auctioned off on the court house steps to pay their remaining debts.

Former Muslima Maryam Namazie gave a speech at Goldsmiths, University of London, during which male members of the Islamic Society made blatantly transparent attempts to silence her.

Now that the video of the speech and the Islamic Society's members' really despicable conduct is being publicized, the Executive Officer of the Students' Union has asked her to take down the video. Thankfully, Namazie has refused.

But you know what kills me about this? Among those student groups sympathizing with the Muslims? The Feminist Society and the LGBTQ Society of Goldsmiths.

Huh...seems like the male San Bernadino shooter's Mom is part of a pro-Caliphate group...

Rafia Farook, the mother of San Bernardino terrorist Some Asshole, is an active member of the Islamic Circle of North America (ICNA), a Muslim organization that promotes the establishment of a caliphate and has ties to a radical Pakistani political group called Jamaat-e-Islami.

I may have taken some liberties with names...

But you know what kills me about this? Among those student groups sympathizing with the Muslims? The Feminist Society and the LGBTQ Society of Goldsmiths.

Give the Islamists over there some time. You know who'll be dead? the LGBTQ Society of Goldsmiths and any Feminist Society members who refuse the hajib.

I'd laugh, but it's not nice to laugh at people who are so willfully ignorant that it leads to their death.

But you know what kills me about this? Among those student groups sympathizing with the Muslims? The Feminist Society and the LGBTQ Society of Goldsmiths.

Patrick, you may like this tweet from Richard Dawkins:

http://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/672850903557398528

JFP, that is a good tweet. Thanks for sharing it. IRA, very true. There's something to be said for supporting someone of differing ideology, but I'd draw the line at giving my support to some ideology whose adherents observe their beliefs by throwing me off a building.