Schrodinger’s Rights

Most people on the internet are familiar with Schrodinger’s Cat. Basically, it’s an idea in quantum mechanics that if a cat is inside a closed box, it’s both alive and dead until you actually look and essentially fix the cat’s status in that moment. Yes, I’m oversimplifying this because I’m not a physicist and have no interest in becoming one, nor becoming a physics writer. You get the point, though, which is important.

Because, with most of the American left, there’s a dichotomy of thought regarding rights that almost seems like a Schrodinger thing.

Let’s start with the big elephant in the room of American politics right now, the SAVE Act. Basically, you’d have to show ID to vote.

Democrats are screaming about how unfair the law is, because it’s too hard for many minorities and even many women to get the documentation needed for the ID. This is a right, they argue, and you shouldn’t make it contingent on having to jump through so many hoops to exercise that right.

Which is interesting. 

You see, I get the need for ID and voter registration. We need to make sure people are eligible to vote, not just in general, but in the particular election they’re trying to vote in.

As a Georgia resident, I can’t drive down to Florida or over to Alabama to vote, even though I’m an American citizen. I’m not a resident of either state, and so vetting should be done to make sure I can vote there before letting me cast a ballot.

But voting is a right. There’s no doubt about that.

So why is an ID to vote such a massive non-starter for so many of these people, but an ID to buy a gun is as simple and ordinary as waking up, at least in their minds?

Now, if I have to flash an ID to show that I’m an American citizen when I go to buy a gun, I can live with that. Citizens and resident aliens have gun rights, at least to some degree, while illegal aliens don’t. If I have to show the seller that I’m a citizen, so be it. I’d rather it be done without any kind of paper record of me buying the gun, admittedly, but it’s not the end of the world. Just make it like proving your 21 to buy booze, and I’m good.

But while Democrats think we should go through everything short of a body cavity search in order to buy a gun–and some would probably prefer the body cavity search be required–they don’t think that anyone should be required to show they actually are who they say they are when they show up at the polls.

Why is voting so unimportant that it warrants zero safeguards, while an explicitly protected right like the right of the people to keep and bear arms should have so many hurdles in place?

It’s a profound double standard when it comes to rights. It’s an insurmountable barrier for voting, but not for every other aspect of life that requires an ID, including a trip to the gun store? That hardly seems consistent, now, does it?

That’s because what they consider a right depends on when they’re looking into the box. Gun rights aren’t real individual rights, but everyone should be allowed to vote on the honor system. The media runs reports claiming that immigrant voting is rare, all because of the ones who are caught, not the ones who get away with it, and they pretend the honor system works.

Meanwhile, they ignore the benefits of gun rights, challenge anyone who tries to claim that guns aren’t an unmitigated evil, and will never utter a single word in defense of the right to keep and bear arms unless they can bludgeon their opponents with it.

Rights aren’t dependent on who you vote for, and they’re not dependent on whether it benefits your side.

Making sure people who are deciding our elections have the actual right to decide isn’t a violation of anyone’s rights. Keeping American citizens from exercising their right to keep and bear arms because it makes you feel icky, however, is a completely different story.

Rights aren’t cats in quantum theory boxes. They’re there all the time, whether we like them or not.

Editor’s Note: The mainstream media continues to lie about gun owners and the Second Amendment. 

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