Voter ID - Remember When The GOP Went Nuts Over Photo ID's to Purchase Hand Guns?

[otohara]

Suddenly photo ID's are all the rage amongst the "small government" group.


It was in the 2000 campaign that the NRA went after Democratic candidate Al Gore with a vengeance built up over years of confrontation with the Clinton administration and its “jack-booted government thugs,” as others put it.

The Moses of gun rights may have had too regal a bearing to use such incendiary words. But in attacking a Democrat who favored mandatory photo ID licenses for future handgun buyers, Heston held little else back. http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/23985685/ns/today-entertainment/t/heston-was-public-face-gun-rights/#.T1pziudZAs0

[TheWraith]

1. Um, not quite the same thing.

Photo IDs have been required to purchase guns, any guns, for decades. That article is badly written, but I think they're referring to a proposal to require special licenses akin to driver's licenses.

[otohara]

2. Why Then Did NRA Heston

make such a big deal about it - using it against Al Gore.

From the 2000 election.

BUSH [to Gore]: I disagree on this issue. He’s for registration of guns. I think the only people who are going to show up to register or get a license, are law-abiding citizens. The criminal’s not going to show up and say, hey, give me my I.D. card, and I don’t think that’s going to be an effective tool to make the, keep our society safe.

GORE: I’m not for registration. I am for licensing by states of new handgun purchases: A photo license I.D. like a driver’s license for new handguns.
Source: Presidential Debate at Wake Forest University , Oct 11, 2000

[saras]

3. Combine the two - you have to bring a gun in order to get to vote.

, the large bowl, please.

ID, to God-damned hell with ID! We have no ID. In fact, we don't need ID. I don't have to show you any stinking ID, you god-damned cabrón and chinga tu madre! Come out from that shit-hole of yours. I have to vote.