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alp227 (18,785 posts) Wow, comparing gun insurance requirements with POLL TAXES???? Last edited Mon Feb 18, 2013, 10:17 PM USA/ET - Edit history (1)How stupid can the 2nd amendment authoritarians' arguments get, first from "car accidents kill more people" to comparing gun taxes or insurance requirements to...the poll tax! See this letter to the editor in my local paper, "Legislators trampling rights of gun owners": While the legislators in Sacramento trip over themselves trying to look tough on gun control, let me remind them that they are recklessly tampering with the Bill of Rights. This is not the Bill of Privileges whereby elected officials can dole out favors at their whim. The right to bear arms shall not be infringed, yet that is exactly what they are doing. Requiring classes, testing, annual recertification, onerous registration and liability insurance will impose a substantial financial burden on gun owners. No one should have to pay good money to exercise any of their constitutionally guaranteed rights. The high cost in money and time will discourage gun ownership just like poll taxes were used to discourage an entire segment of society from voting.Fortunately, that was declared unconstitutional, as will this newly proposed gun control legislation.(Comments edited out after reading replies. Let's focus on dissecting the letter writer's idea.)
Response to gejohnston (Reply #1)Mon Feb 18, 2013, 10:10 PMbaldguy (29,166 posts) 4. Quack, quack, quack.More noise from the RW peanut gallery.
oldhippie (1,078 posts) 3. I'd feel a lot safer if ...... Repubs couldn't vote. Look at all the wars, killings, economic damage and mental anguish they cause. They put a significant burden on the rest of us that want to be safe. How about we find a way to tax them and encourage them to vote a little smarter? There oughta be a way to do that, right? Just some common sense regulation? Like Pubbies having to pay a fee for a class before voting, to learn those things that Democratic voters already know? And voting isn't even in the Bill of Rights!
Authoritarianism is characterized by highly concentrated, and centralized power maintained by political repression and the exclusion of potential challengers. It uses political parties and mass organizations to mobilize people around the goals of the regime.
oldhippie (1,078 posts)3. I'd feel a lot safer if ...... Repubs couldn't vote. Look at all the wars, killings, economic damage and mental anguish they cause. They put a significant burden on the rest of us that want to be safe. How about we find a way to tax them and encourage them to vote a little smarter? There oughta be a way to do that, right? Just some common sense regulation? Like Pubbies having to pay a fee for a class before voting, to learn those things that Democratic voters already know? And voting isn't even in the Bill of Rights!
Response to oldhippie (Reply #3)Tue Feb 19, 2013, 12:29 AMholdencaufield (2,350 posts) 13. So ... just to be clear ...... instead of allowing the free exchange of ideas to compete on their own merit in the marketplace of a democracy. You prefer only to allow suffrage to those who think and believe as you? That's mighty progressive of you. Perhaps you'd be more at home in North Korea than in the US.
oldhippieHow about we find a way to tax them and encourage them to vote a little smarter? Like Pubbies having to pay a fee for a class before voting, to learn those things that Democratic voters already know?
Look primitive, if I wanted to view things the way you did, I wouldn't have to take a class. Like libs do, I'd just hit myself in the head with a hammer until I became as stupid as you..
