New "Common Sense" Gun Law Has Everything But Common Sense

We should just change the Constitution so that Democrats are no longer allowed to write laws:

Get collared years ago on a bogus drug charge because the oregano in your back pocket looked like was a bag of weed? Or maybe a judge back in 2006 dropped those charges because you were able to provide proof for that Adderall prescription? Under proposed legislation, it will not matter if you were innocent all along or even proven innocent by a court of law.

Either way, you can forget about buying a gun.

The Fix Gun Checks Act of 2011 would greatly expand the definition of those legally prohibited from owning firearms to include anyone who’s ever been arrested — even if never convicted or found guilty — for drug possession within a five-year period. The legislation is certainly troubling for those who want a “common sense” debate about drug decriminalization. And it would seem fears that any new national gun-control legislation would be used to limit the gun-rights of law-abiding citizens is at least partially justified.

Sponsored by New York Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer and introduced earlier this month, the expanded background checks bill includes a “clarification of the definition of drug abusers and drug addicts who are prohibited from possessing firearms.” Under Schumer’s bill, the definition of a “drug abuser” would include anyone with “an arrest for the use or possession of a controlled substance within the past 5 years.”

Note that it says an "arrest" and not a "conviction". Any arrest and you're out as far as making future gun purchases.

Now, nobody wants drug-addled people possessing guns, but this is simply ridiculous and yet another example of a legislator that doesn't get it.  The Tucson shooter, for whom all this new "common sense" is bing created, violated any number of existing laws when he attacked a political rally.  None of those laws stopped him.  This law wouldn't stop him, because bad people who want a gun will find a way to get one.  They won't go through the legal processes.

Congress should just say no...to Chuckie Schumer.