If a state wants to take away your gun, they must first go to court and prove there’s a clear and legally defensible justification for that “extreme” action. You can appeal their move all the way to the US Supreme Court. On the other hand, if a Republican governor, secretary of state, or local official wants to take away your voter registration or refuse to count your ballot, they don’t even have to tell you they’ve done it. Thomas Paine, in his 1795 Dissertation on First Principles of Government, proclaimed: “The right of voting for representatives is the primary right by which other rights a…