You have a charming way with words. Yes, national IDs and the right to bear arms are wrapped up in our national identity. To paraphrase Charleston Heston, they

You have a charming way with words. Yes, national IDs and the right to bear arms are wrapped up in our national identity. To paraphrase Charleston Heston, they can put a national ID in my wallet when they pry the AR15 from my cold dead hands. Never mind I am trusted traveler with global entry and I have a real ID state drivers license. Never mind the Chinese government hacked the federal Human Resources database all those years ago and have the data for anyone who took a paycheck from Uncle Sam. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Personnel_Management_data_breach https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Personnel_Management...