The easiest way to stop gun crime is to go to the voter roles, find all the democrats and disarm them...they do the majority of the gun murders in the country and kill a lot of people.......
That's good.
Let's try this on for size: When you vote, there's an instant background check to see if you're eligible to vote. Everyone seems to be mostly fine with the arrangement and it's effectiveness.
Felons are not allowed to vote; which makes sense--you don't want those of criminal mind and criminal intent to have ANY say in how the government uses its power to initiate the use of coercive force (read: guns) upon society. Because the criminal use of guns individually or through (elected) proxy is still the criminal use of guns, and we don't want a bunch of criminal retards in charge of guns. Right?
It seems that the same moral deficiency is valid cause to deny (on narrowly defined criteria) an individual's constitutionally protected right in both cases.
From what I hear, voter fraud is a myth... so this background check must also be pretty good.
So.... anyone who is disqualified from keeping and bearing ANY firearm should also be disqualified from voting... for the same (valid) reasons.
If implemented, all registered voters are automatically licensed gun owners--and no one is any more obligated to own a gun than they are obligated to vote, yet they are still fully qualified to do both.
The Fed could issue licenses: One side of the ideological aisle would get the "universal" gun owner license it so desperately wants, and the other side would get the "voter ID" card that it so desperately wants. There would be national reciprocity, and no "due process" violations cause by a patchwork quilt of local regulations regarding gun ownership or voter eligibility. Seems like a win-win.
I'm just interested how the dynamics of "Rock the Vote" and other voter registration efforts would change.