Reply #22: It's Royalist gun control- "Only the good people should have legal guns" [View All]

[friendly_iconoclast]

And I would note that your interlocutor has carefully avoided pointing out two other aspects of his proposed tax:

1. It would be regressive.

The better-off could afford what they want, while those people would be limited in what they could afford for self-defense.

And since there is no demonstrable link on the number of firearms someone owns and their likelihood in doing something criminal

(if you are law-abiding while owning one gun, chances are you'd still be law abiding if you owned several dozen- as many collectors

do), this is purely a class-based attempt to disarm the working poor no matter the fine words it comes wrapped in.

and

2. It would be racist, as unfortunately in this country, skin color is a rough guide to income levels.