The day Mr. Obama and his family give up their well-armed Secret Service protection is the day I will start taking seriously his hypocritical advocacy of gun-control measures for his fellow citizens
Ted Kennedy, the 47-year “Lion of the Senate,” per his own account on August 19, 2004, was put on an airline watch list. In this instance, he had to speak with a supervisor in order to get his initially refused boarding pass: “I got on the watch list last April. I was taking a plane to Boston and I get out to the USAIR and I come up to the counter and I said I want my ticket.” This is the reason Republicans reject no-fly lists as a basis to limit individual liberty: if a powerful guy like the senior senator from Massachusetts can be mistakenly placed on a secret government list, what hope is there for the rest of us?
To make matters worse, these hidden lists are reported to be up to 40% inaccurate. Therefore, should intrusive, faceless big government use Orwellian rosters to summarily strip American citizens of their Second Amendment rights without due process, or the charge or conviction for any crime?
Progressives holler stentorian-like the conflated straw-man argument of widespread gun violence, the specific deaths of the Sandy Hook children, and so-called “identified wrongdoers” on airline flights. Bleeding-heart liberals are so well-intentioned in their desire to make everyone “safe.”
As a practical matter, this means eliminating legal gun ownership (punishing a responsible “white hat” element of our society), blaming the guns themselves, and completely ignoring the fact that criminals always manage to be armed. This is obvious in the recent tragedy of San Bernardino.
The day Mr. Obama and his family give up their well-armed Secret Service protection is the day I will start taking seriously his hypocritical advocacy of gun-control measures for his fellow citizens.
