New Rule:

[Playinghardball]

[frazzled]

1. Excellent rule /nt

[Todays_Illusion]

2. Forgive the sass. I didn't know guns voted?

I agree with your rule and use it often.
I am often confused about how to identify a legal gun voter from an illegal gun voter.

Any help will be appreciated. -wink-

[lastlib]

12. If a gun shows up at the polls, send it home.

You can't go wrong there.

[Todays_Illusion]

15. I am not a gun and I approve of this sensible solution.

Paid for by the No Voting Gun Posse'.

[greiner3]

14. "I didn't know guns voted?"

[tclambert]

19. Guns (or gun owners) vote one trigger pull at a time.

Kinda like you vote with every dollar you spend. If you buy cheap crap at Wal-Mart, you vote for more manufacturing in China, less in the US, you vote for starvation wages for working people, and you vote for making the heirs of Sam Walton a little bit richer.

[uponit7771]

21. They do, when they're used to shoot people cause someone is sKeered

[Arkansas Granny]

3. I would support that.

[blkmusclmachine]

4. OK!

[Initech]

5. Win!!

[lindysalsagal]

6. Yuppers.

[oldandhappy]

7. Very good!!

[me b zola]

8. K&R

[petronius]

9. Good rule! If one is eligible to exercise a Constitutional right, should one - or

should one not - be required to demonstrate that eligibility before doing so? I bet some find-and-replace ('voter ID' vs. 'UBC') exercises on RWer arguments would create some entertaining results...

[LiberalEsto]

10. K&R!

[tosh]

11. Excellent rule!

[sadoldgirl]

13. Great rule;however

I can already hear the NRA's answer: But Justice Scalia said that our constitution does not give people the right to vote. What an unbelievable justice!

[Cha]

16. KICK!

[W.J. McCabe]

17. Oh the hypocrisy.

It burns.

[aikoaiko]

18. There are background check for guns already

When buying through an Federal Firearm Licensee.

Generally we don't require checks to vote in polls conducting by private people.

Nice job meme maker.

[MO_Moderate]

20. So very true

Funny thing is that for years, Republicans have been using this same logic for support of voter ID.

[uponit7771]

22. Background checks are not required in all cases of purchasing a gun, I'm sure some know that

[aikoaiko]

23. My reply is more nuanced that.

Last edited Mon Feb 3, 2014, 03:55 PM - Edit history (1)

All gun sales require a background check when transferred from gun sellers who are regulated by the Federal government (FFLs).

That is analogous to election voting (i.e., regulated by the federal government) and voter IDs.

Both private polls on politicians and private gun transfers are unregulated by the fed and background checks are not required.