@old europe,
old europe wrote:
I think the founders should have put the right to vote and the right to bear arms into the same amendment. It would make the hypocrisy much easier to spot.
Please explain. To whose hypocrisy do you refer? The individual Colonies had elections ( with varying limitations on age, sex and property), long before the constitution was established, and continued them after the union was established. Our constitution is clear that powers not specifically assigned to the Federal Government are reserved for the sovereign states. The Bill of rights, was later added to the Constitution, by some founders, suspicious of both the states and the then new Federal government.
I fear your comments don't make much sense. I would be very surprised if any of our voter eligibility requirements was materially different from those that exist in either Canada or the UK or any major European state. It is merely amusing that those here who argue here against any enforcement of our rather common eligibility requirements for voting, tend to be the same as those advocating the most severe restrictions on the right to bear arms. If that is the hypocrisy to which you refer, I might understand.
This is a bit amusing to me in that, in most states in this country, the requirements for entry into the voting registry and getting a license to buy a weapon are remarkably similar. One must be;
(1) Alive
(2) A resident of the state in question
(3) meet a minimum age requirement
(4) be without conviction for a serious felony.
Do you object to any of these?
The large, mostly Democrat, urban political machines in our country have a long, and well documented, history of violating criterion # 1 above to preserve their political power.
