Voting is far more dangerous than carrying weapons.
“Let me be clear,” Attorney General Eric Holder emphatically declared
in a 2012 speech to the National Association for the Advancement of
Colored People, “we will not allow political pretexts to disenfranchise
American citizens of their most precious rights.” Holder’s remarks were a
call to arms against efforts by Republicans to require that voters show
identification when they go to vote. His words reflect a belief that
the right to vote is so “precious” that requiring individuals to show an
ID before casting a vote is tantamount to being “disenfranchised.”
However,
when it comes to protecting the right to “keep and bear arms” – which,
unlike the right to vote, is a right expressly guaranteed in the
Constitution itself – the Attorney General of the United States is
nowhere to be found. Apparently our Second Amendment rights are just
not “precious” enough to worry about when governments engage in actions
expressly designed to “disenfranchise” individuals from exercising those
rights.
The hypocrisy is so blatant it is painful.
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