The home-schooled children being taught to fire GUNS: Father-of-four invents his own curriculum

The Daily Mail ^ | 01 26 18 | Emily Chan

[NorthMountain]

Don’t trifle with me about taking away my vote.

Universal suffrage is a disaster. I can't speak for the other poster, but I'm not trifling at all in saying that the vote MUST be limited to those with skin in the game.

[upchuck]

... I ran at a school in Michigan from 1918-30...

Let's see... 2018-1918=100. How old are you? :)

[Mrs. Don-o]

But the men decided to give women the vote.

Zen? Or Catch-22.

[Mrs. Don-o]

How about they have to be employed or living in households without public benefits?

Just off the top of my head.

[NorthMountain]

Something along that line ... paying Income Tax is currently the best (IMO) single proxy for having skin in the game, but I'm so violently opposed to the existence of an income tax that I don't want to use it.

Colonial America used real property ownership as the qualification for voting. I'm actually very open to discussion on the matter. The 19th and 26th Amendments were steps in the wrong direction, though.

[Mears]

“Colonial America used real property ownership as the qualification for voting. I’m actually very open to discussion on the matter”

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My mother,an immigrant who could never afford property,would not have been able to vote,yet in her lifetime she trudged through many storms to vote.

Why exclude renters?

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[NorthMountain]

Property ownership signified a number of things. The owner was viewed as a permanent member of the community and had a vested interest in keeping it healthy. The owner was viewed as part of the foundation of the community, one whose activities supported it and made its existence possible.

No form of government is perfect; assuming a Republic no method of qualifying electors will be perfect. Any method will allow some unwise or unvirtuous people to vote, and disallow some wise and virtuous people. I assert (and I think it's self evident) that the current method of qualifying everybody above the age of 18 to vote has been a disaster. The "Gimmedat" vote is almost 50% of the electorate. This must change. We cannot have an expansive (and expensive) cradle-to-grave welfare state AND have universal suffrage. Not if we expect our Republic to last.

We have $20 Trillion in actual Federal debt and $200 Trillion in unfunded liabilities. The crash looms.

[Celerity]

I recommend hanging around www.vigilantcitizen.com for a few weeks to get an idea of what I mean.

VC will also enrich your life, it’s not like a worldstar hiphop or anything.

[Axenolith]

Should have been “it”...DOH! My great great grandfather could have, he would have been 56 then, just about teacher age ;-). He made it to 1969!

[Axenolith]

Open to discussion, I.e. like in reevaluating it the criteria could be having paid taxes (income, property, etc...) or just not have received a government benefit in the prior election cycle.

[Axenolith]

Don’t forget the 17th in the suck amendment category.

[Big Red Badger]

Black Powder is Really a Hoot!

[Deplorable American1776]

History of the Black Panthers​? Okay, maybe he is biased, but maybe he is giving his kids that they were criminals...Bobby Seals and the New Haven 7...

I know my kids knows how to handle guns...I think I saw him at a gun range...