Offer combined firearms owner/voter ID card . You have to be 18, U.S. citizen, mot otherwise disqualified (most state prohibit ex-felons from voting). If you are not sane and responsible enough to own a gun, why would we trust you to vote? "But those are different." Hilarity results.
Similar concept: How 'bout a voter own real estate (and pay property tax) in the jurisdiction in order to vote in LOCAL elections? Federal rules are of course different. But in discussions about whether non-citizens can, more permissively than in the past, vote in local elections, maybe we should look at making local registration LESS permissive. Same concept.
ReplyDeleteThen of course only property-owning, tax-paying, jury-serving, posse-volunteering, voters would be encouraged to own personal arms.
FOID's are an affront to the Constitution. Why should I have the government's permission to benefit from a basic human right - the right to self defense?
ReplyDeleteHow about instead, we have nationwide constitutional carry? So that the right to keep and bear arms is not - you know - infringed?
It is a compromise they will reject and thus expose themselves.
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