I think it was harder to have and use a weapon in the wild west than it is today.
Texas to remove one of its last gun restrictions after lawmakers approved allowing people to carry handguns without license & checks that go with it
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All is well because man in Iowa says so. Keep calm. Hang with your Qanon neighbors. Shoot Jewish space lasers and keep those masks away that cause staph infections..
It’d be nice to know how many polling places those districts have before making a definitive judgement.
Sure but these measures are made to lower it and in some areas that's all it may take.
They also could own slaves and use horse-drawn carriages back then too.
The constitution was meant to be a living document. There were a lot of things that were around when the constitution was written. In case you haven’t noticed, the world is a tad different today.
If you're willing to go back to only allowing the kinds of guns that were available when the constitution was written, then I'm willing to grant you this interpretation.
Troubling. That doesn’t show the amount of polling places per capita in those districts though and that data wasn’t in the Texas tribune article.
We know that the Republican districts net gained and the dem district net lost. Sounds bad for sure. I’d just like to see the per capita number of polling places...if there’s a disparity there then I’d say it’s definitely voter suppression.
He mostly just wants to go back to rich white land owners being able to vote.
I'm gonna go get IVF (paid for by insurance!!), then go down to Texas and walk up to an abortion clinic while carrying my gun, and I can stand my ground by way of the gun when the forced birthers harass me. Hashtag freedom
Not only this, but states all had regulated militias with known and identified commanders and member rolls. They were in their laws, they were organized, they were trained and they would be called on to defend the state and country in lieu of a large standing army.
Most of those were superceded by, and discontinued after, the Militia Act of 1903, which codified the ARNG into what it is now. IIRC, there are only 1 or 2 states that still have an identified, official "militia".
Now, that's absolutely no to say that individuals don't have a right to arms, they do, SCOTUS has ruled that way for a couple hundred years now. But let's quit forgetting the entire purpose of 2A... it was for national defense.
Hyperbole? I don't know what it is you think the Republicans have been doing since before the election. Not sure what you think they have been attempting to do the last 6 months. It CERTAINLY isn't trying to protect a democracy. It's the exact opposite of that. Right in our faces. You are like many who are just bystanders, keeping their heads in the sand.
All Dems talked about before the 2020 election was voter suppression and we ended up with the highest voter turnout in decades.
Thr right of "the people" shall not be infringed. I missed where it says "the militia and the people are the same. But you keep beating that dead horse.
Soooooo, its about ignition source now? Ignore the fact they actually had machine guns at the time that did way more damage that most of todays weapons. Were those flintlocks?
Texas is removing polling places from Dem-dominant districts, and only in the five largest counties in the state. It sounds like they are also still kicking around the idea of banning mass-polling sites. I’m not sure how much more explicit it could get other than an introductory sentence to the Bill itself that says “our intent is to make it more challenging for Democrats to vote in elections.”
What’s the per capita distribution of polling places in those districts? I’d think that’d be an important measurement but I’ll be damned if I can find it in any of the articles posted about the Texas legislation.
You are so close to a revelation. Keeeeeeep going.
I’m not sure I agree. If a particular district is “using” (for lack of a better term) all of its polling locations at a high capacity, why should it be forced by law to remove them? On the flip side, if a particular district does not have any issues with long wait times or other voting access problems, why should they be forced by law to add polling locations?
Not to mention, I am guessing that a lot of the districts losing polling locations are within the city core. Areas within the city core are much more likely to have people voting at a nearby location before work, after work, during lunch, etc. While the population in two districts might be identical, the number of people who typically vote at the polling locations within that district could be drastically different.
Well...that was accurate. There was a significant push to slow down mail service in the fall.
Yup. Someone using common sense and fact to point out your idiotic agenda statement.And, here we go...
As I have said about Trump, there is no norm, shared value, or American institution that Trump wouldn't s**t all over to either help himself, or, just because he's a petty little bitch.
Speaking of idiots, how many colonialists were walking around the streets of Boston, Philadelphia, and Williamsburg and packing machine guns???
Who really has an "agenda" here???
Fool.
They shuttered 3 of the 4 drop-off locations in Houston. In 2020, the GOP challenged (and won) a drive-up voting stating that was a tent because the statute says structure. The GOP challenged sending mail-in voting applications that were sent--without request--to all voters in Harris County; however, it did not challenge and specifically requested that the same "no request" application continue to be sent to Boomers over 65 years of age.
If each district has different per capita rates as far as polling places go, a statewide standard doesn’t seem unreasonable to me. X amount of polling places for x amount of voters. I’d add geography to the equation.
A lot of the stories about mail boxes being removed was a tad hyperbolic...as they’ve been getting removed for years.
And sorters being shut down. Examine this situation with Trump's behavior after the election, including calling on the state authorities to overturn the election in his favor. You don't think there is a basis to believe that slowing down the USPS at election season was by design.
There weren’t problems that I’m aware of in regards to slow mail effecting the ballot count. Despite a record amount of votes by mail.
A whole lot of hullabaloo about basically nothing.
There were late entries in PA, Florida, NV. That was the bases of the GOP challenge.
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