My email was read on the Martha Zoller show

[neoncowboy]

Maybe you've seen/heard Martha Zoller, conservative radio talk show host from North Georgia. She's a regular on Hannity and has her own show on WDUN 550AM in Gainesville, Ga. http://www.marthazoller.com

Today, she read my email on the air and then spoke flatteringly of what a great analogy I'd made.

================ my email ======================
Hi, I am a regular listener and caller to Martha's radio show. I know that she is a supporter of the 2nd Amendment (or, says she is anyway) and thought I'd suggest this topic:

I got angry the other evening watching some 'voter rights activist' on the TV news.

She was condemning GA's law requiring a photo ID to vote and explained that voting is a most basic constitutional right and that it is wrong to place any obstacle in front of it. She was indignant.

Then I remembered how...
I must have a state issued permit to carry my handgun. That permit costs $15 and I have to spend another $23 on a background check/fingerprinting to get it. This requires me to have picture ID and go, in person, to the magistrate court during business hours and to the sheriff's office during restricted hours for the fingerprints. If I have ever been convicted of a crime, no permit. That constitutionally protected right is gone. I wait for about 4 months and my permit to exercise my constitutionally protected right comes in the mail...even though the law specifies I must receive it in 90 days.

Can you imagine the uproar if we restricted voting to people who had no criminal record? Charged $40 for a voting permit? Made people wait 90 days for one?

Why is it acceptable that this many layers of obstruction be placed between me and my 2nd Amendment rights, but a picture ID being required to vote is 'unconstitutional'.

And why is a court willing to place a restraining order on GA's ID-to-vote law, but not on it's concealed carry law?

I am not a 'gun nut'. I'm not a violent revolutionary, building an arsenal or any of the weird characterizations the mainstream media likes to use when describing gun owners. I am simply a freedom loving American who recognizes that the right to keep and bear arms is the most fundamental of all of our civil rights.

I am dismayed that we accept laws requiring permission from the government to exercise our fundamental rights. It is time for a change.

I'd love for you to tie these 2 issues together on the air some morning.

Thanks,
John Corry
North Hall, GA

 

[Drizzt]

that is a good analogy. congrats.

 

[geekWithA.45]

Great letter!

Incidentally, voting isn't an inalienable right, it is a civil right.

RKBA, an inalienable right endowed by our creator and constitutionally protected as such is MORE fundamental than voting, believe it or not.


Voting is a civil right, created as a whole cloth as the method of participation in our government; it is a creature of the artifice of government.


Although I'm hard pressed to consider a realistic alternative to voting as the means of participation, I suppose it's possible. (For example, annual ritual stoning of politicians: Every year, a politician must either resign or submit to ritual stoning. If no one shows up to fling rocks, the politician lives and can serve another term. )

 

[yorec]

Love it - Of course they aren't the exact same thing, analogies seldom are. But it should get at least a few folks to stop and consider just what has happened to out second ammendment rights over the years. That is always a good thing - the ususal apathy is what is has allowed the anti's to make any gains at all...

Again - kudos.

(Now to get such an analogy made public somewhere less conservative, where some koolaid drinkers might look up, take note, and actually think about it.)

 

[BowStreetRunner]

neoncowboy that is a very original idea!
great job
BSR

 

[Chipperman]

Nice. Did any callers respond to your letter?

 

[neoncowboy]

Nice. Did any callers respond to your letter?

Not that I heard...but I was running all over the place trying to get the house ready for the impending parents-in-law visit...which I am presently surviving.

 

[Fly320s]

I like your email, Neon, but GeekWithA45 wins first place in the Best Idea in the History of the World.

Although I'm hard pressed to consider a realistic alternative to voting as the means of participation, I suppose it's possible. (For example, annual ritual stoning of politicians: Every year, a politician must either resign or submit to ritual stoning. If no one shows up to fling rocks, the politician lives and can serve another term.

 

[grampster]

Neon,
If you don't mind, I'd like to condense your thoughts, and try and get your analogy in the Grand Rapids (Michigan) Press in their Public Pulse. Maybe 300,000 circulation. Let me know if it's ok.

 

[neoncowboy]

Neon,
If you don't mind, I'd like to condense your thoughts, and try and get your analogy in the Grand Rapids (Michigan) Press in their Public Pulse. Maybe 300,000 circulation. Let me know if it's ok.

Sure. We're all in this together.

 

[ctdonath]

Being in Georgia, I had the same idea. Prime opportunity to turn GA into a "Vermont carry" state.

 

[afasano]

Maybe you've seen/heard Martha Zoller, conservative radio talk show host from North Georgia. She's a regular on Hannity and has her own show on WDUN 550AM in Gainesville, Ga. http://www.marthazoller.com

Today, she read my email on the air and then spoke flatteringly of what a great analogy I'd made.

================ my email ======================
Hi, I am a regular listener and caller to Martha's radio show. I know that she is a supporter of the 2nd Amendment (or, says she is anyway) and thought I'd suggest this topic:

I got angry the other evening watching some 'voter rights activist' on the TV news.

She was condemning GA's law requiring a photo ID to vote and explained that voting is a most basic constitutional right and that it is wrong to place any obstacle in front of it. She was indignant.

Then I remembered how...
I must have a state issued permit to carry my handgun. That permit costs $15 and I have to spend another $23 on a background check/fingerprinting to get it. This requires me to have picture ID and go, in person, to the magistrate court during business hours and to the sheriff's office during restricted hours for the fingerprints. If I have ever been convicted of a crime, no permit. That constitutionally protected right is gone. I wait for about 4 months and my permit to exercise my constitutionally protected right comes in the mail...even though the law specifies I must receive it in 90 days.

Can you imagine the uproar if we restricted voting to people who had no criminal record? Charged $40 for a voting permit? Made people wait 90 days for one?

Why is it acceptable that this many layers of obstruction be placed between me and my 2nd Amendment rights, but a picture ID being required to vote is 'unconstitutional'.

And why is a court willing to place a restraining order on GA's ID-to-vote law, but not on it's concealed carry law?

I am not a 'gun nut'. I'm not a violent revolutionary, building an arsenal or any of the weird characterizations the mainstream media likes to use when describing gun owners. I am simply a freedom loving American who recognizes that the right to keep and bear arms is the most fundamental of all of our civil rights.

I am dismayed that we accept laws requiring permission from the government to exercise our fundamental rights. It is time for a change.

I'd love for you to tie these 2 issues together on the air some morning.

Thanks,
John Corry
North Hall, GA

Tell them abortions are OK as long as they have a photo ID on file at the courthouse. Tits for tat.

 

[Kim]

To have an abortion they also must be fingerprinted and have it kept on file at the FBI. Also don't forget they must have their Permission slip with them when they show up to purchace their abortion. Plus lets add a letter from a psychiatrist to say they are mentally capable of making such a decision. And heck lets limit them to one every year. And don't forget the waiting period.

 

[beerslurpy]

cowboy, you win at emails, very well done

 

[Standing Wolf]

Well said, neoncowboy! I'll try to remember your analogy.

 

[NickEllis]

though of course all analogies are imperfect, I like this one, and wish I could use it with my current canadian batch of friends. However, since this isn't addressed in the bill of rights...... grrr..... need another analogy for northoftheborder.