Bloomberg Fumbles Facts, Laws in Gun-Control Policy Rollout freebeacon.com/politics/bloom…
Despite spending hundreds of millions of dollars boosting the gun-control movement, Bloomberg's comments suggest he lacks a basic familiarity with the details of firearms laws, sales, and operation.
"I know critics will say ‘Americans shouldn't need a permit to exercise their constitutional rights,' but voting is a constitutional right, and we require people to register to protect the rights of all citizens, and this is the exact same idea," he said.
Unlike the right to keep and bear arms, the right to vote per se is not explicitly enumerated in the Constitution or its amendments. The federal charter only places limitations on what kind of voting rights restrictions can exist.
At the same time, connecting gun-right restrictions to voting-right restrictions may raise uncomfortable questions for skeptics of the latter, including those in Bloomberg's party who rail against proposals like voter ID.
