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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 1221359" data-attributes="member: 14668">bbsam,Do you know why the Voting Rights Act of 1964 was finally passed? Was it because it was illegal for blacks to vote? No...the right of blacks to vote was guranteed under the Fifteenth Amendment. It was passed... because racist Southern states had intentionally thrown so many rules and poll taxes and literacy tests and other &quot;reasonable&quot; restrictions upon the voting rights of black people that they were effectively disenfranchised even though they still &quot;technically&quot; had the right to vote under the Constitution.So...What good are 2nd Amendment rights if state laws (such as California&#039;s) make ammunition for guns all but impossible to afford or even legally buy?What good are 2nd Amendment rights if states like California pass laws requiring unaffordable and useless &quot;microstamping&quot; of every ejected shell case on all new firearms?What good are 2nd Amendment rights if states like California require nonexistent, impossible &quot;smart gun&quot; technology to be installed on all new firearms?What good are 2nd Amendment rights if states like New York arbitrarily reduce the allowable magazine capacity of all semi-automatic guns from 10 down to 7? And if I comply with the law and throw away all my 10 round mags and replace them with 7-rounders, what happens a year or two down the road when they change it again down to 6? Or 5?The list of impossible &quot;feel good&quot; restrictions and laws goes that are constantly being proposed goes on and on. I&#039;m not making any of this up. The people who come up with this crap have the ultimate goal of making gun ownership so complicated, so restricted, so expensive and so burdensome that our Second Amendment &quot;rights&quot; will exist only in theory. Their actions in regards to the Second Amendment are no different that the actions of the racist Southern states were in regards to the Fifteenth. You dont care because, as a non gun owner, you arent affected; its a damn good thing that the policitians who passed the Voting Rights Act back in 1964 didnt feel the same way simply because they were all white.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="soberups, post: 1221359, member: 14668"] bbsam, Do you know why the Voting Rights Act of 1964 was finally passed? Was it because it was [I]illegal[/I] for blacks to vote? No...the right of blacks to vote was [I]guranteed[/I] under the Fifteenth Amendment. It was passed... because racist Southern states had intentionally thrown so many rules and poll taxes and literacy tests and other "reasonable" restrictions upon the voting rights of black people that they were [I]effectively disenfranchised [/I]even though they still "technically" had the right to vote under the Constitution. So...What good are 2nd Amendment rights if state laws (such as California's) make ammunition for guns all but impossible to afford or even legally buy? What good are 2nd Amendment rights if states like California pass laws requiring unaffordable and useless "microstamping" of every ejected shell case on all new firearms? What good are 2nd Amendment rights if states like California require nonexistent, impossible "smart gun" technology to be installed on all new firearms? What good are 2nd Amendment rights if states like New York arbitrarily reduce the allowable magazine capacity of all semi-automatic guns from 10 down to 7? And if I comply with the law and throw away all my 10 round mags and replace them with 7-rounders, what happens a year or two down the road when they change it again down to 6? Or 5? The list of impossible "feel good" restrictions and laws goes that are constantly being proposed goes on and on. I'm not making any of this up. The people who come up with this crap have the ultimate goal of making gun ownership[I] so[/I] complicated, [I]so[/I] restricted, [I]so [/I]expensive and [I]so[/I] burdensome that our Second Amendment "rights" will exist only in [I]theory[/I]. Their actions in regards to the [I]Second[/I] Amendment are no different that the actions of the racist Southern states were in regards to the [I]Fifteenth[/I]. [I]You[/I] dont care because, as a non gun owner, [I]you[/I] arent affected; its a damn good thing that the policitians who passed the Voting Rights Act back in 1964 didnt feel the same way simply because they were all white. [/QUOTE]

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