Meme: Now imagine you needed a birth certificate,"Real ID", or passport to purchase a gun....

[applegrove]

— Fred Guttenberg (@fredguttenberg.bsky.social) 2025-04-13T14:24:08.359Z

Now imagine you needed a birth certificate,"Real ID", or passport to purchase a gun....

[Kaleva]

1. We could imagine going through a background check to vote

[Amishman]

9. Yeah, guns to voting is not a comparison that is favorable to our viewpoint

The background check, need to show valid ID, and extensive data collection on the purchase paperwork are more involved than the verification needed for voting (and it should be!).

[bluestarone]

2. Wonder who would raise hell about that?

[Ping Tung]

3. I can well imagine thousands if not millions of gun-nuts calling, writing, or beating on the doors of congress

to scare their reps to kill those kind laws or.......suffer the consequences.

[beemerphill]

4. This wouldn't bother me in the least.

We could require "Real ID" for gun purchases, driver's licenses, and voting. None of these would be too much to ask.
And they would all be beneficial to us as a society.

[beemerphill]

6. HUH ???

Real ID has nothing to do with women or women's rights. How did you connect the two?

[applegrove]

7. Oh. I thought it had something to do with the SAVE act.

I'm outside the US. Thanks for the correction. And my apologies.

[travelingthrulife]

8. The initial post is referring to the recently passed SAVE Act. This act will steal women's vote.

Women will have to have passport or marriage license or some other legal document proving their married name since it will not match her name on birth document.

It's a back door way of voter suppression.

[beemerphill]

10. That would be a different story.

If this Act were to go through and target just women or just men it would never stand up in court. If, by chance, it did stand up, most of our Nation would be Very Pissed, and there would be action taken quickly to change it. We have come too far as a Nation ever to discriminate that way again.
If gender-neutral, I see no problem with using Real ID as Identification for the activities.