papers please
Nashville liberal radio show host ponders:
So the same folks who want to require a birth certificate to register to vote also want to remove the birth certificate requirement to apply for or renew a handgun carry permit (see HB 2718 by Rep. Stacey Campfield, R-Knoxville).
Someone’s priorities are way screwed up not to mention unpatriotic and dangerous.
First, I guess the accusations of patriotism depend on which way the wind blows. Next, once we start licensing rights, the qualifications tend to get more and more in depth.
Coincidentally, I renewed my carry permit yesterday. I did not have to show a birth certificate. And last I voted, I didn’t have to either.
Clenched-fist salute ACK.
February 10th, 2010 at 10:15 am
The other difference is that one is listed in the Constitution, the other is not.
February 10th, 2010 at 11:16 am
I’m not sure I follow the birth cert for voting. Proof of citizenship, sure. But we have citizens who where not born here.
On the flip side, I don’t believe being a citizen should matter to the carrying of a firearm. Non-citizens are allowed to buy firearms. Why should we not allow them to carry said firearm for self defense?
I’d bet that my thinking is reversed from the lefties though.
February 10th, 2010 at 12:44 pm
I never had a birth certificate. Neither did my brothers or my parents. We had secondary evidence — for “the boys” a certificate of registry of birth in the township’s records and our church’s baptismal records, for my mother only our church’s baptismal records.