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Missing the Marx: Gun Control’s Future is … Communism?
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After every high profile crime committed with a firearm of any sort, there are always calls for gun control. But one particular proposal this week managed to distinguish itself amid the usual din, if only for its audacity and what it reveals about the mindset of people who wish to disarm their fellow Americans.
In a lengthy article in Washington Monthly, private equity investor William V. Glastris, Jr. pitched a plan under which the federal government would obtain the means of handgun production, ban handgun importation, and target the current private handgun stock with a massive, nationwide “buyback.” The plan’s ultimate goal would be for “the government to significantly lower the supply—and thereby raise the price—of handguns … .” |
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PHORTO
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Hey. They can dream as big as they want. Even under current SCOTUS precedent, that jackwagon's proposal is DOA.
Nationalization of any private industry is unconstitutional, period. |
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