Why not property requirements?  Why do they fail your test?  What is it about them that makes them too high a benchmark?

Isn't voting a right that should be earned?

How does this legislation determine which non-citizens have earned that right? 

Without clarity on that point, it sounds like motor-voter to me.

The cow has already left the barn on this one but whatever happened to the notion that you have to have skin in the game in order to vote?

Guess that is filed away with Wall Street banks that get bailed out with taxpayer money when they are long when they should be short or short when they should be long.

This stuff is priceless and this post should go directly to the Main Feed.

Yeah but like Dole, McCain and Romney........"It's MY turn!"

Fred, I do not know if you are correct specifically here but I completely agree with your perception.  Images and symbols are wildly important.  We are all more susceptible to them than we think.

If we are not offended by a slight erosion of our liberty, we will not be offended when the erosion is not so slight.

Well put.  I agree.  What is crazier is that their leaders openly preach this message all the time.  It's like reading Mein Kampf in 1930 and thinking everything will be OK.

Don't doubt your perspective but what's the endgame?  Where does it go?

Nothing to see here, folks, let's just move along and all go home.  It'll all be OK in the morning.

for the record, i don't agree with this garbage:

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/456873/20130414/thatcher-party-london.htm

but i think the Brits made mistakes.

they sent us to the wastelands of Industrial America and we flourished.  Did really well, in fact.  we helped build this silly nation.

we are doctors, lawyers, teacher, engineers and people who make things in  factories.  we rejoice when our children succeed and mourn when they fail.  we are not communists nor are we terrorists and we are a people rising.

you seem comfortable putting us all in the same cubicle.

the Brits made a mistake in history. that is undeniable.

they waged Civil War against their own tribe.  Sands was a kid in his 20's and he got 14 years not for being a terrorist (the ultimate buzzword) but for being a kid in a car with a gun. the Judge said there was no evidence to connect him to that bombing but he got 14 years.

14 years? what'd ya expect? a Mitt Romney supporter?

we are irish, small, haggard, diminutive in the scale of things.  we have scaled walls you don't understand, James of England. 

Put another way, the Progressives realize they do not have to ban high capacity magazines or "assault" rifles or anything at all.

They understand that all they have to do is control the process by which the purchase or transfer of these items is approved.  Once that happens, it is lights out on the 2nd Amendment.

I hate to say it but the strategy is a stroke of genius for the Progressive.

Duane, look at the endgame.  It is not about background checks and that is why I am so disappointed in Toomey.

Their ultimate aim is total confiscation.  A society where only the government is armed.  One more knot in the velvet rope of regulatory and ideological tyranny.

Actually, he got 14 years for possession of a revolver.

As an aside, what, pray tell, troubles you about "militia survivalists?" Do you know them?  Are they your neighbors?  Or worse.......are they Tea Partiers?  Wow,  owning guns is a Tea Party position.  You are right Duane.  Let's dismiss it with a "C'mon guys."

Bingo.  That is right where this garden path goes.  Thank you.

Toomey is either naive or simply corrupt for supporting this.

Define mentally unstable.