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Paying for the Second Amendment
Submitted by:
Mark A. Taff
Website: http://www.marktaff.com
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Given that wistful proposition, let’s consider another improbable but perhaps viable response to America’s firearm scourge. What about a Second Amendment Reparations Tax, levied on all American households and corporations? If the Second Amendment is essential to American identity, and if additional firearm-related legislation is a long time coming (if ever), then why not create a communal fund to assist those families and institutions devastated by inevitable gun violence? Such a FEMA-administered reparations tax would commit all of us to the task of “binding up the wounds” created by firearm violence. If we can’t affect the laws, the least we can do is help pay for the funerals. |
Comment by:
MarkHamTownsend
(11/17/2017)
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Yea, let's make everyone who didn't commit a crime pay for the crime, but the actual criminal, no, that might be "double jeopardy," or some other legal gibberish. |
Comment by:
dasing
(11/18/2017)
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If you don't pay for liberty, you lose it...the gov. does NOT supply safety, it ensures security, the individual supplies safety...criminals/murderers, are NOT fighting for liberty!!!!!!!! |
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The congress of the United States possesses no power to regulate, or interfere with the domestic concerns, or police of any state: it belongs not to them to establish any rules respecting the rights of property; nor will the constitution permit any prohibition of arms to the people; or of peaceable assemblies by them, for any purposes whatsoever, and in any number, whenever they may see occasion. —ST. GEORGE TUCKER'S BLACKSTONE |
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