Profiling, Voter ID And Background Checks

       Well, sure enough the Supreme Court did it to us again. In their decision on the Voter's Rights Act, they stripped out section 5. Less than two hours later, Texas instituted it's strongest in the nation voter ID law. Two days later it was challenged in court. Many other states are instituting all sorts of voter ID laws and making changes to the ways people can vote.
       What I don't get is why people feel it's perfectly okay to require IDs to vote, but still won't accept the idea of requiring a background check to buy a gun. And they feel even worse about the idea of any kind of registration to buy a gun, yet think nothing of requiring registration to vote. The thing is though, nobody ever got killed by a vote while many, many have been killed by guns.
       Oh, I know, guns don't kill people, people kill people. So do grizzly bears and rattle snakes and they don't use guns. But people without guns don't kill many people. People with guns do kill lots of people. A pointed finger doesn't kill, but a pointed gun can.
       Now don't get me wrong, I agree that voter ID is a good idea. It will eliminate a few cases of the rare voter fraud. Although it still won't save lives, but background checks to buy guns won't hurt anyone and will save lives. My only problem with Voter ID laws is that far too many are designed to be hard and costly on poor people to obtain these IDs.
       The other game the Supreme Court Justices opened up is for states and districts to play fast and loose with poling places and times in order to make voting more difficult for some people. If you can't take time off from work without it costing you pay or your job, but absentee voting is made more difficult, or if you always voted on a Sunday after church but now you're not allowed to, that's profiling and the authorities know it. That's why they do it.