Marco Rubio bemoaned Sunday the number of people who are improperly placed on no-fly lists, reiterating his opposition to President Obama’s proposal to strip those people of their gun rights.
“There are a majority of people on the no-fly list that are oftentimes people that basically have the same name as somebody else who don’t belong on the no-fly list,” Rubio said to Jake Tapper on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
Pressed by Tapper about the claim that a “majority” of the people on these lists are there erroneous, Rubio clarified that he meant “significant,” but stuck to his overall reasoning.
“Former Senator Kennedy — Ted Kennedy — once said he was on a no-fly list,” Rubio said.
President Obama said Saturday, “Right now, people on the no-fly list can walk into a store and buy a gun. That is insane. If you’re too dangerous to board a plane, you’re too dangerous, by definition, to buy a gun. And so I’m calling on Congress to close this loophole, now.”
“There are journalists on the no-fly list,” Rubio continued with Tapper. “There are others on the no-fly list that wind up there. These are everyday Americans who wind up on the no-fly list where there’s no due process or any way to get your name removed in a timely fashion, and now they’re having their Second Amendment right being impeded upon.”
“If these were perfect lists that would be one thing. There are over 700,000 americans on some watch list or another that would be captured under the amendment that the Democrats offered. That’s the problem.”
