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On Fri, 8 Jan 2016 12:24:18 -0500, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote: On 1/8/2016 12:02 PM, wrote: On Fri, 8 Jan 2016 09:28:17 -0500, "Mr. Luddite" wrote: I just don't understand what the big deal is ... unless of course your are absolutely convinced that the "government" is out to get you. === I'm certainly not convinced that the government is out to help me. Everything they touch becomes a quagmire ruled by special interests. I don't disagree with that but what makes you think they are "out to confiscate your guns"? If it ever happened and with the government's track record, they would screw that up just like they screw just about everything else up. Pretty hard to go out and "pick up" 350 million firearms across the country. :-) === It would be very difficult. What would be easy however is to turn a lot of people into criminals just like prohibition and the war on drugs. Prohibition came about because of a concerted effort by a lot of well intentioned but misguided individuals, same with the war on drugs. Both had (have) unintended consequences far beyond what was originally envisioned. I firmy believe that increased gun legislation would end up the same way. Greg makes some good points about registration leading to taxation. |
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On Fri, 8 Jan 2016 16:33:32 -0500, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote: Greg makes some good points about registration leading to taxation. If you recall that was tried with boats years ago as part of a "luxury" tax. Didn't last long. In fact, Congress passed it in 1991 and Bush 41 signed it into law. It was canned two years later. Wow. A boating reference. Two in one night. I am amazed. I do think the luxury tax is not comparable tho because it was defeated because it killed jobs. A registration tax would be seen like the myriad of other "sin taxes" and we already got used to paying registration taxes on the other things we register (houses, cars, boats and now even toys.) |
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