Not even the libs at Gawker can stomach the spectacle of Democrats turning Congress into a pajama party while attempting to associate a tyrannical measure with civil rights:
The no-fly list is a civil rights disaster by every conceivable standard. It is secret, it disproportionately affects Arab-Americans, it is error-prone, there is no due process or effective recourse for people placed on the list, and it constantly and relentlessly expands. As of 2014, the government had a master watchlist of 680,000 people, forty percent of whom had “no recognized terrorist group affiliation.” This is both an absurdly large number of people to arbitrarily target in gun control legislation, and far, far too few to have any meaningful effect on actual gun ownership, let alone gun violence.
These clowns would be highly beatable, if Republicans could prevent the GOP from being hijacked by one of them.