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The FBI’s Terror Watchlist is a Politically Correct Fail for Guns - LisaJarratt - 06-16-2016
The FBI’s Terror Watchlist is a Politically Correct Fail for Guns
Using the terror watchlist for gun checks is a really dumb idea for several reasons.
The watchlist, as a means of gun control, is set up to fail in the first place, and in cases where guns have been the main weapon used in terror organization-inspired attacks (the government calls them “lone wolf” attacks), the system has a dismal record in preventing weapons from getting into terrorist hands.
(Due to the classified nature of the database, we will likely never know how effective it has been, but going by the last few years in the news, it’s an abject failure.)
Part of the reason for that failure is due to the mission of the organization which created and maintains it.
The FBI operates an office called the Terrorist Screening Center. It’s a multi-agency organization created by President George W. Bush in 2003 to maintain a consolidated database for realtime cooperation and intelligence sharing.