Toon: Gun buying requirements vs voting requirements

[Playinghardball]

Hypocrisy. We're talking about you, Texas and North Carolina.

[Nuclear Unicorn]

1. That's not very well thought out.

Does this mean people who want waiting periods, background checks, mental health evaluations and onerous taxes for guns support the same thing for voting?

[zbdent]

3. not at the Berea fairgrounds in Ohio ...

[Lizzie Poppet]

2. There are, of course, far MORE requirements to buy a gun.

The one exception would be private sales, which is a good argument for universal background checks. But for the most part, this toon is ignorant nonsense.

[NashuaDW]

4. Witty... But Inaccurate

Not to mention the fact that only one of those is guaranteed by the Bill of Rights.

Nowhere in the Constitution does it guarantee your right to vote (except for Senator).
http://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/statements/2013/may/30/mark-pocan/us-constitution-not-explicit-right-vote-wisconsin-/

Cheap shots and laugh lines don't advance our argument

DAle

[noiretextatique]

5. unfuckingbelievable

you belong on SCOTUS.

[Jim Lane]

10. The cited PolitiFact piece is wrong about the Constitution.

I refer you to Article IV, Section 4, which provides, in pertinent part: "The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government...."

There's some flexibility around the edges (in some states, judges are elected; in others, they're appointed by elected officials). Overall, however, this provision (known as the Guarantee Clause) does guarantee your right to vote. There would be no way to have a republican form of government without allowing citizens to vote.

[Doctor_J]

11. Heh. Freeper talking points

Enjoy your brief stay, limbecile.

[noiretextatique]

6. i like it...i see the gunnists don't

even more of a reason to like it. voting rights are currently under attack, in the same states where you can buy guns readily. i think the cartoon nails home that fact.

[GP6971]

7. How true. n/t

[mwrguy]

8. This will cause butthurt among wife-beating inbreds

Off to facebook with it

[ileus]

9. More requirements in Va to buy a gun than vote.

Of course we're not the deep south...