Having watched their Senate counterparts try and fail to get the requisite 60 votes for any of four separate gun-control measures last Monday night, House Democrats took the worst idea of the bunch and made it their last stand.
Conducting an unprecedented sit-in, the chamber’s Democrats occupied the House floor to demand a vote on legislation that would ban Americans from exercising their Second Amendment rights if their names happened to appear on a secret and error-prone government watch list.
On first blush, this “no fly, no buy” concept might seem reasonable. But, as with most bumper sticker slogans, it makes for a profoundly bad public policy. To allow government agents to strip Americans of their freedom to travel, much less their constitutionally protected right to bear arms, based on nothing more than their presence on a secret blacklist, is nothing short of modern-day McCarthyism.
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