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You can be as sure as you want, but you'd be wrong.

There are virtually no examples of people using fraudulent identities to vote in any recent election.

But simple statistics can show us that in areas where voter ID is implemented, voting goes down. And it goes down specifically among people in certain distinctive demographic categories.

 

Again, just going by my state's laws, which make you get a permit to carry a concealed weapon and put a seven-day waiting period on a host of weapons.

http://federalfirearmlaws.com/gun-permit/gun-permit-by-state/

 

So buying a gun is not a basic right now? How is it any less a right than voting?

 

Wait, what?

 

It's a matter of silly semantics over what you mean by "basic right."

If by "basic right" you mean "protected by the Constitution of the United States of America," then yes it is.

If by "basic right" you mean "fundamental feature of any free society," then no it is not.

Voting meets both definitions.

 

Can you cite nine confirmed cases of voter fraud?

 

Concealed weapons are different, but it looks like you can openly carry a gun without a permit in your state. I doubt the waiting period applies to private sales and gun shows, which means certain politiicans want to make it harder to vote than to buy a gun.

 

Newt Gingrich:

 

You're coming to a gun control fight with Newt Gingrich and Human Events? Couldn't find anything from Wayne LaPierre?

 

Rick Stain:

 

The basic understanding of our Constitutional Rights is that we are "endowed" with them.

Our Government does not grant them, they are charged with making sure they are not infringed.

The right may be infringed in nations around the globe. Maybe it's not a "fundamental feature of any free society," but it's infringement is necessary for any totalitarian society.

Doesn't make it any less of a human right.

 

Yeah? How did that work out for Negroes until the mid-1960s?