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In reply to the discussion: White House weighs broad gun-control agenda in wake of Newtown shootings [View all]forthemiddle
(1,373 posts)You may have "much better things to do with what little I can scrape together than to worry about buying a gun..." But isn't that your choice?
You may think that owning guns are "immoral", but hypothetically, I may think using the internet is "immoral". Even though the vast majority of internet users are law abiding citizens, some of them use the internet for dire uses. Terrorist organizations, including Al Queada have be know to recruit and plan terrorist attacks via the internet, resulting in the death of thousands. Kiddie Porn syndicates have been known to exploit children, devastating their lives via the internet..... etc. etc. etc. And yet you are trying to equate all legal gun owners with your own morality.
In the past people have stated on this board that poor people SHOULD NOT waste "what little they can scrape together" on computers, or internet fees, yet others have ripped them stating how do you know that they were not given the computers for free, or bought them when they could afford them, etc. So I am equating internet use with ammunition use. Should we so heavily tax internet use (like you want to with ammunition) so only the well off can afford it? After all I may find the activities performed with a computer (not the computer itself, but the activities) immoral.
This is truly a 1st Amendment argument, vs 2nd Amendment. Would it be Constitutional to outrageously tax the internet because of immoral or illegal things someone MAY do on it? And remember there are millions of exploited children, and terrorist victims you could be saving.....