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Gun rights are a constitutional right.
Voting technically is a privilege and immunity of citizenship. Yes we have the 14,15th amendment and government laws granting voting rights. When the government grants a "right", to me it is a "privilege" since what the government gives, the government can take.
The point is IMHO, the right to bear arms is a right that the government recognizes, the right to vote is a right the government grants, as such, the right to bear arms IMHO is on a "higher" order than the "right" to vote.
The 2nd amendment ends with "this right shall not be infringed". We don't have a constitutional amendment saying the "right" to vote shall not be infringed.
If I am required to show my DL and go through a background check before I can buy a gun, what is the issue with voter verification.
When Iraq and Afganistan had their elections, voters were required to put their thumb print and use a blue ink that wouldn't just wipe off.
When I go to my Gym, I don't carry an ID anymore, I just type in my cellphone number and they scan my thumbprint.
We scan our thumbs to get our driver's licenses, why can't we do this for voting?
Often we discuss our need to do outreach, well here is an issue where most of the public probably would agree with us across the political spectrum.
Integrity of the honesty of elections IMHO is a substantial public interest and this is a minor burden on voting.
Hell, such a system could allow for same day registration and voting.
As far as absentee ballots, a person could send in a copy of their DL and submit a thumbprint with their ballot.
In the event someone can't make a thumb print, I am sure something could be worked out. How many people are missing their right thumbs.
I have a gut feeling that there is enough voter fraud going on that elections are swayed just enough so that it looks like we are having an election when in reality, political machines pick their people.
Now I realize certain people may not want to run to vote if they have something like warrants on them if this system was functional just like I don't think people would necessarily want to run to gun shops and buy guys if a background check was run before they could buy the gun and that might lead certain people yelling that this system could suppress voter participation of certain groups of the population, the only thing I can say to this is SO.
We have to look for ways to start to get the public to realize that there is no order of rights, they all are equally important.
Equating gun rights with voting rights beefs up our argument that
GUN RIGHTS are CIVIL RIGHTS.
Nicki
Voting technically is a privilege and immunity of citizenship. Yes we have the 14,15th amendment and government laws granting voting rights. When the government grants a "right", to me it is a "privilege" since what the government gives, the government can take.
The point is IMHO, the right to bear arms is a right that the government recognizes, the right to vote is a right the government grants, as such, the right to bear arms IMHO is on a "higher" order than the "right" to vote.
The 2nd amendment ends with "this right shall not be infringed". We don't have a constitutional amendment saying the "right" to vote shall not be infringed.
If I am required to show my DL and go through a background check before I can buy a gun, what is the issue with voter verification.
When Iraq and Afganistan had their elections, voters were required to put their thumb print and use a blue ink that wouldn't just wipe off.
When I go to my Gym, I don't carry an ID anymore, I just type in my cellphone number and they scan my thumbprint.
We scan our thumbs to get our driver's licenses, why can't we do this for voting?
Often we discuss our need to do outreach, well here is an issue where most of the public probably would agree with us across the political spectrum.
Integrity of the honesty of elections IMHO is a substantial public interest and this is a minor burden on voting.
Hell, such a system could allow for same day registration and voting.
As far as absentee ballots, a person could send in a copy of their DL and submit a thumbprint with their ballot.
In the event someone can't make a thumb print, I am sure something could be worked out. How many people are missing their right thumbs.
I have a gut feeling that there is enough voter fraud going on that elections are swayed just enough so that it looks like we are having an election when in reality, political machines pick their people.
Now I realize certain people may not want to run to vote if they have something like warrants on them if this system was functional just like I don't think people would necessarily want to run to gun shops and buy guys if a background check was run before they could buy the gun and that might lead certain people yelling that this system could suppress voter participation of certain groups of the population, the only thing I can say to this is SO.
We have to look for ways to start to get the public to realize that there is no order of rights, they all are equally important.
Equating gun rights with voting rights beefs up our argument that
GUN RIGHTS are CIVIL RIGHTS.
Nicki
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