It is also important to note that Due Process is, by definition, an up-front proposition, not an after-the-fact affair. If, by some miracle, your test-case survives all the way to the SCOTUS, where it is ruled in your favor, and you manage to force the lower district courts and municipalities to actually obey the judgement, and you manage to pay all your legal fees, salvage a life that isn't completely ruined by the all-dominating legal drama, and even live long enough to see the end of a 5-10 year process, minimum --the due process you enjoyed in appealing authorities to remedy your injustice doesn't change at all the fact that it was an injustice without due process in the first place.
Unless erroneous watch-list entries get beau-coup damages for suffering the bureaucratic nightmare (conservative estimates have the list about a third wrong at present, btw) and a darn rapid process for redeeming themselves, this whole show is for nothing.
Remember how everyone thought it'd be a great idea to debar all domestic abusers the right to keep and bear arms, retroactively? Welcome to Lautenberg 2.0, only this time you don't even need to be convicted of anything to begin losing your rights --you can get put on The Secret List simply by being a family member or acquaintance of someone suspected or accused of being a terrorist. And if you have the same name, it's all the same as far as you are concerned.
We successfully fight off Universal Background Checks to avoid registration/confiscation after a classroom of kids are killed, but we think this 'might be a good idea after all' even though there is no chance of us being unable to defend against Democrat legislative advances. Brilliant.
I sure hope folks realize (especially in the NRA) that they'd better be careful what they wish for. A heck of a lot of folks like me are in the Not One More Step camp, and will dump whatever support we've been giving to these weak-kneed geriatrics if they turn their backs on us after getting caught up in the moment. At that point, the NRA, the only national gun organization of any standing, will become fractured & lose its ability to influence legislative efforts against gun control (see: Republican Party post-Trump), and we'll really be in trouble. The fact Trump is even entertaining this madness could spell doom for gun rights advocates for generations...and is the exact kind of stuff you were all warned about in turning to him*.
TCB
The T-man had risen slightly in my estimation after his very strongly pro-freedom speech on the subject yesterday, but clearly only did so as a cover to convince people to go along with a short-sighted scheme to trade constitutional freedom for security, yet again. I finally gave him the benefit of the doubt, and he pulls this within 24hrs --no more. Nothing that man says will convince me to support him. #NeverTrump