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Simple solution: tax the ever-loving fuck out of bullets. $1000 per. Call it a "true cost adjustment."
I wish you the best of luck with that. Poor taxes were the strategy behind the NFA - its incredible unpopularity guarantees it won't make it through either branch of Congress let alone both.
Thanks!
What a brilliantly uneducated idea. Thanks for turning my hunting season into a 3k dollar minimum adventure instead of a cheap way for me to put food on my table.
Use a bow, like a real man.
We do during bow season, and then we hunt with rifles during rifle season. It's the best way to get more deer meat in the freezer.
Oh fuck off. No one gives a flying fuck about your bloodlust beyond other psychos.
Ah, I see hunting for food is now bloodlust. Completely rational take.
It literally is when we live in this day and age. If you aren't living in a tribe somewhere, the bottom line is, you do this because you want to end something's life.
I'll be sure to inform my hunting friends we're all full of bloodlust for our interest in filling the freezer with cheap, quality meat which also serves to provide population control for an invasive and damaging species because a rando on the Internet said so.
I feel for you and your apparent limited ability to consider other situations.
Yikes. Are you sure the bloodlust isn't your own issue?
Says the guy who is vastly unaware of how many responsibly armed citizens they cross paths with on a daily basis, and who have demonstrably prevented mass shootings. You have no idea the hidden safety net you live under and yet you want it destroyed because of the few bad actors.
And just in case you're looking for your "good guys with a gun," they're all standing outside of a school, waiting and shitting their pants. It's pathetic.
I'm not sure anyone - anyone - would argue police are "good guys". If anything, they're an active demonstration that those in power cannot be the only ones with firearms given the extent to which they maliciously misuse that power.
But sure - use the incompetence and cowardice of a given police department as some absurd emotional appeal.
Yup. Yes. A few bad actors spoiled it for the rest of you. Waa waa waa...grow up. Y'all can't figure out if guns are a hobby or a necessity, but you seem to always fall back on both points pretty quickly. It's sad that your "interests" seem to threaten our very existence, yet you feel like you have some inalienable right to kill others. It's extremely sad and disappointing. I suggest you grow up and find other ways to entertain yourself.
Yikes, the projection.
Oh? I'm not sure how you interpreted their highlight of the sheer commonality of those legally carrying with no issue as either of these things.
I'm not sure how you feel threatened by the mere existence of inanimate objects. Even extrapolating to the action - that of homicide - I'm not sure how you'd feel threatened by such a thing, especially so disproportionately to its lack of prevalence related to the other ways you can be killed and their statistical likelihood.
I'm also not sure how you interpret the right to bear arms - repeatedly highlighted for self-defense purposes in judgements and judge opinions - as somehow an inalienable right to kill others. Unless I'm missing something, that kill others part tends to result in the offender spending quite some time in prison.
You may wish to take your own advice - you seem unable to think beyond your own preconceived and irrational views on a thing, even aside from your demonstrated inability to consider how your criticisms and suggestions might apply to yourself rather hypocritically.
None, because I don't live in a shithole where you need guns in order to feel safe in your own home.
Better than the "profiteering off of the death of kids" community.
If some of them die when working with explosives, I can only see it as a win.
You seem like a pleasant individual, wishing death on those you disagree with views on Constitutional rights.
FYI the powder used in manufacturing ammo is not explosive. Smokeless powder simply burns fast, and it's generally safe and relatively easy to construct your own ammo at home. I have a couple of reloading presses at home, have made hundreds of cartridges of high quality ammo for cheaper than you can buy it. The cartridges that I produce with novice to intermediate level experience on the press are actually higher quality than factory ammo, unless you spend extra for the Match Grade stuff.
Ah yes, let's just arbitrarily throw out the Bill of Rights and make it so that only rich people can access tools with which to protect themselves.