I’m not a big fan of his work, his opinions, or the ground he allegedly stands on. It took Wendy McElroy to drive me to his site.
But having been driven there, I have seen a strange thing: A Ted Rall opinion that’s (mildly and empirically, and hardly for a principled reason) not completely wrong*.
Democrats occupied the floor of the House of Representatives to demand that people on the federal “no fly” list be denied the right to buy firearms. But the no fly list is maintained by the incredibly incompetent TSA. Why should they get to decide whether you have your Second Amendment rights?
Is that weird, or what? Okay, I don’t really know anything about Rall, paying very little attention to him, so maybe I’m all wet and he’s been flying the 2A freak flag since forever. Maybe he’s got S&W logo sheets on his race car bed and snuggles with a Barrett. But this did surprise me, is all.
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*”Not completely wrong” being defined, of course, as “does not contradict my view,” which is – of course – completely right.
Why does nobody seem to notice that the very existence of a “no fly” list (absent due process) is clearly unconstitutional?
(“The right to travel is a part of the liberty of which the citizen cannot be deprived without due process of law under the Fifth Amendment.” Kent v. Dulles, 357 US 116, 125. )
Yeah, but welcome to Catch 22: Plenty of other court decisions have decreed that certain modes of transportation – like, effectively, all of them including walking beside certain roads – are not protected by that musty old constitution. So enjoy, citizen. Eat. Work. Comply.
Great cartoon. I admit while I do look at her posts I’m not a huge fan of Ms McElroy. A lot of stuff she posts is good (like this) but some from very questionable sources, not so much.