The left doesn't want to take your guns!

[Dill]

(04-05-2018, 06:50 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: Quote:Requiring a license for every gun owner would not limit the rights of law abiding citizens to own guns.

It absolutely could, by applying future laws that limit who can purchase them.  Requiring an ID to verify your identity doesn't prevent anyone from voting, yet it's constantly decried as an attempt to stop poor and minority voters from exercising their right to vote.

That is because requiring a voter ID does prevent people from voting, disproportionately minorities. In any case, apples and oranges.

Check page 15 of US vs State of North Carolina Board of Elections 2016
http://electionlawblog.org/wp-content/uploads/nc-4th.pdf

The pre-Shelby County version of SL 2013-381 provided that all government-issued IDs,
even many that had been expired, would satisfy the requirement as an alternative to
DMV-issued photo IDs. J.A.2114-15. After Shelby County, with race data in hand, the legislature amended the bill to exclude many of the alternative photo IDs
used by African Americans. Id. at *142; J.A. 2291-92. As amended, the bill retained only the kinds of IDs that white North Carolinians  were more likely to possess.

Voter Identification Laws and the Suppression of Minority Votes
http://pages.ucsd.edu/~zhajnal/page5/documents/voterIDhajnaletal.pdf
Focusing on the validated vote in recent elections using the Cooperative Congressional Election Study we are able to offer a more definitive test. The analysis shows that strict photo idenfication laws have a differentially negative impact on the turnout of Hispanics, and race Americans in primaries and general elections. Voter ID laws skew democracy in favor of whites and those on the political right.

E.g., in some places such laws can depress Asian American voting by 12.1 points.

Rigged: How Voter Suppression Threw Wisconsin to Trump
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/10/voter-suppression-wisconsin-election-2016/
After the election, registered voters in Milwaukee County and Madison’s Dane County were surveyed about why they didn’t cast a ballot. Eleven percent cited the voter ID law and said they didn’t have an acceptable ID; of those, more than half said the law was the “main reason” they didn’t vote. According to the study’s author, University of Wisconsin-Madison political scientist Kenneth Mayer, that finding implies that between 12,000 and 23,000 registered voters in Madison and Milwaukee—and as many as 45,000 statewide—were deterred from voting by the ID law. “We have hard evidence there were tens of thousands of people who were unable to vote because of the voter ID law,” he says.