Yet those who rail the loudest against any effort to staunch the flood of documented and preventable gun violence through even the most modest gun control proposals have not uttered a word against voter ID laws that disenfranchise eligible voters under the guise of preventing problems not proven to exist in any significant numbers. In fact, many of them — including the National Rifle Association and its political lackeys — are the most bellicose defenders of voter suppression measures. While they strenuously object to “prior restraint” on the rights of law-abiding gun owners, they have no problem with — and in many cases fervently endorse — prior restraint on the voting rights of their fellow law-abiding citizens. And, if any of them believes we should apply the post-crime “just prosecute the ones who violate the law and leave everyone else alone” approach to voter impersonation, they’ve been mighty quiet about it.