Banning guns for those on the terror watchlist

[Jim in CT]

I hear a lot of folks saying lately, that those on the watchlist shouldn't be allowed to buy guns. That sounded like common sense to me. Until I saw this video, of Trey Gowdy absolutely detsroying an administration official on this issue. Gowdy annihilated her by asking a couple of simple, basic questions. When your position cannot find a way to answer the most basic questions, it's time to re-think that position.

No one gets due process before they are on the no fly list. Therefore, you cannot remove their second amendment rights before they have due process. As Gowdy said, if this President wants to deny someone their second amendment rights without due process, why can't the next president deny someone's first amendment rights without due process? The woman looked like an idiot, she had no answer for that.

If someone is on the no-fly list, it seems like a bad idea to let them buy an AR-15. But it's a far worse idea, to let the president (especially this jerk) have the power to ignore the parts of the Constitution he doesn't happen to like. His oath is to preserve the constitution, he doesn't get to unilaterally decide when it applies to US citizens and when it doesn't. I would think that a law school professor might be aware of this. But he thinks he is king, not POTUS.