Quote:You don't think there is something fundamentally flawed with putting the constitution on a pedestal when guns are a "right" but voting is not? 

 

Not really, the founders understood the need for those who make the decisions to have skin the game other than what freebies the guy they are voting for will hand out of the people's treasury. That's why the land owner clause was a very good idea; because land owners were the tax payers, everyone else had no compelling interest in the government (no taxation without representation became only taxation guarantees representation). Self defense, OTOH, is an inherent right granted to all people based on the existential laws of nature and nature's god, not their level of participation in local or national government.

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