Liability insurance for gun owners compared to Poll Tax

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. In states that have a general sales tax, you pay that tax when you buy a gun or ammunition.

Should those items not be subjected to sales tax because gun ownership is a "constitutional right"? Free speech is a constitutional right. Maybe there should be no sales tax on newspapers, magazines, internet connections, telephone services, etc., but there is. The right to travel is a constitutional right, too, but you have to buy car insurance; you pay a fee to get a drivers license and to get license plates for your car, and you paid a sales tax when you bought the car.

Read a little history: The poll tax was found unconstitutional because it was applied only to black people to prevent them from voting. State laws imposing the poll tax included a grandfather clause, which allowed any adult male whose father or grandfather had voted in a specific year prior to the abolition of slavery to vote without paying the tax.

And I hope you are merely quoting the odious Congressman Stockman, not presenting this tripe as your opinion.