Reciprocity Idea - "driving" home the point

[PaFrank]

Hi Guys, been lurking for a while, 1st post here..

We all know that bearing arms is a right, and that driving is a privilege.

I think that all the Red states should force all Blue State residents that want to drive through their state to apply for and obtain a non-resident drivers license.

So the MA, NY, CT, DE, MD, or NJ residents that want to drive to FL for vacation would need to apply for, be tested by, and pay for a non-resident from VA, NC, SC, GA, and FL.

Flying? want to rent a car? Non-resident drivers license!!

Of course Red states would have reciprocity with red states, and blue states with blue states. (But who really wants to go to a blue state anyway?)

Could be a great revenue producer!

 

[Sam1911]

Are you seriously proposing folks spend effort trying to do this, or are you just whistling in the wind?

 

[deadin]

Simple way to find if this might fly... Just gather enough signatures of registered voters in each State to put it on their ballots and see if the majority goes along with it.

 

[jdc1244]

We all know that bearing arms is a right, and that driving is a privilege.

We also all know that no right is ‘unlimited,’ and subject to reasonable restrictions, including the rights enshrined in the Second Amendment, and that no firearm regulatory measure violates the Second Amendment until the Supreme Court rules otherwise.

I think that all the Red states should force all Blue State residents that want to drive through their state to apply for and obtain a non-resident drivers license.

This is as ignorant as it is ridiculous and impossible to implement.

And Nevada is a blue state, with few firearm regulatory measures – fewer measures than found in some ‘red’ states.

 

[deadin]

And Nevada is a blue state, with few firearm regulatory measures – fewer measures than found in some ‘red’ states.

jdc1244 makes a valid point, just because it is a "blue" State doesn't mean everyone is anti-gun.
Likewise, I think some of the folks on here are going to have to realize that not everyone in a red State is pro-gun.
There are a lot of axes to grind and guns aren't necessarily one of them. (In fact guns may not be very high on a lot of agendas. They're just a big deal on most gun boards.)

 

[Sam1911]

This isn't worth a thread. This is the sort of verbal flatulance that you hear aound the gun counter or cook stove in deer camp which is only worth a bare chuckle from the most like-minded and least thoughtful of our fellow echo-chamber dwellers.

A dead-in-the-water idea to create more restrictions on freedoms, with thoughtless disregard for the harms it would cause our own fellow gun owners who live in, or border on, "blue" states, and a uncomprehended vast overestimation of the effectiveness of the idea in accomplishing the stated purpose.

Truly the sort of thing uncle Ray and cousin Cletus would slap each other on the back about while solving the world's problems over a fifth of Old Sheep Dip before staggering off to fall out of their deer stands opening day.

That's really not what we do here.