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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNo need for gun control at all. Put a ten dollar tax on EACH round.
May not stop things but it might slow things down.
Trajan
(19,089 posts).... as well as the toll booth on Blazing Saddles ...
That slowed them down, eh?
onehandle
(51,122 posts)Guns and their owners should be licensed, taxed, insured, and tracked like automobiles.
leftyohiolib
(5,917 posts)flamin lib
(14,559 posts)suggested $500/round. No need for emergency room care, the shooter would extract the bullet himself . . .
Katashi_itto
(10,175 posts)Kingofalldems
(38,458 posts)aikoaiko
(34,172 posts)The_Commonist
(2,518 posts)Or maybe...
It's time for a Constitutional Convention to clarify, alter and/or repeal the 2nd Amendment.
Because, as I read here recently, "When did 'a well-regulated militia' get twisted to mean an unregulated, well-armed populace?"
Schema Thing
(10,283 posts)In conjunction with very cheap, doesn't-leave-the-premises-unfired ammo at licensed WELL REGULATED gun ranges where anyone could practice, it seems imminently fair.
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)AngryAmish
(25,704 posts)Katashi_itto
(10,175 posts)badtoworse
(5,957 posts)Throd
(7,208 posts)Somebody unhinged/insane enough to commit murder isn't going to let money get in their way.
"Fuck! I shot all those people and now I can't pay my electric bill."
Demo_Chris
(6,234 posts)The power to tax is the power to destroy. You cannot tax a civil right out of existence.
There is a special 10% tax on guns and ammo now that nobody makes a fuss about.
Bump it up too high and courts will strike it down using the same reasoning as they did with poll taxes- you can't use a tax to prohibit the exercise of a right.
hack89
(39,171 posts)what you propose is unconstitutional.