If you ... are gung-ho for gun control, I suggest you live up to your convictions by posting a big sign on your front lawn that reads:THIS HOME IS A GUN-FREE ZONE
I wish you joy of all the delightful visitors you will attract.
No? Sound like a bad idea to you? Then perhaps you should consider how dependent you are on the kindness of 'gun nuts' and rethink your position.
A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most benefits from the public treasury with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy, always followed by a dictatorship.I was trying to think of ways to stave off this inevitable socialist grabfest that drags us down to the society of Atlas Shrugged, where need and incompetence are virtue, and ability is a liability. So, what if voting were restricted? I know it's been done over time various ways (literacy requirements, poll taxes; literacy doesn't seem like a terribly onerous requirement now, and nor do poll taxes, provided the money goes to something truly universally useful, like, say, paying for voting apparatus).