Why? What does my owning or not a gun have to do with my ability to vote? You don't want the government forcing you to get rid of your guns, I don't want the government forcing me to own one. Sounds like we both want the government out of it, huh? What makes you think that my not wanting to own a gun means I won't defend this country if it came to it?
If you are not willing to share in the common defense, be it against foreign enemies or domestic criminals, why should you have a say in how things are run? Heck you make one dumb decision, you are very likely to make more, at our expense
The Swiss used to require men to show up at the voting place with their rifle, or they couldn't vote. Being a nation of riflemen helped persuade Hitler not to invade Switzerland.
Not owning a gun is going to make that sort of difficult, unless you want to throw spitballs at the enemy. Not being prepared, when you could be, shows a lack of commitment.
Historically, the army doesn't have a enough weapons even for it's full and part time soldiers at the beginning of a war. Also historically, folks were expected to bring their own. American gun owners even sent their privately owned weapons to England at the beginning of WW-II, to arm the home guard, only to have those same guns confiscated by the British government after the war, and destroyed rather than be returned them to those that had lent them.
BTW, Welcome to Free Republic. (Gardener Since May 12, 2005)