>How can a country call itself a democracy, and yet attempt to compel its citizens, under threat of sanction, to vote?

And how can the same country come together for one shining moment and enact a country-wide vey strict ban on guns? Perhaps because everyone voted.

My fondest dream is to have a national referendum here in the US on the question of whether we should amend the Constitution to clarify whether Americans do or do not have the right to own more than one gun per capita.

We could do this by having Congress propose a Constitutional amendment which would require that each state hold a referendum on the matter and if 3/4ths of the states voted to change the Constitution, perhaps we could stop being a country where murder is a way of death.


TEd