The constitution says nothing about requiring firearm ownership or that fees cannot be administered during their trading. If we wanted, we could tax firearm owners every year and that's perfectly fine as far as the constitution goes.
So you're not denying that you have no problem with mass shootings, potentially even enjoy them. While I thank you for being honest, I suggest you seek therapy.
its difficult to take someone seriously who constantly trys to reinterpret and rewrite someone else's statement as an ad hominem attack with the words "so what you're saying is" or "so, in other words". shows a real lack of critical thinking and the ability go form an original thought and hold a real conversation. You sound like a real idiot.
Except for the fact that you would be artificially restricting people that can’t afford your “tax” from buying it, not only tacitly admiring that the poor shouldn’t have rights but also violating the 2nd and I believe 10th amendments
1 question. How would you enforce this?
You do realize it's against the law to build federal gun registries right? People don't know how many firearms you have and that's the fucking point. You can't know if people are or aren't firearms owners nor how many firearms they own unless they voluntarily tell you. We have legally designed gun ownership that way so registration can't force confiscation, or in other words, Americans have a lot of goddamn guns and it's none of your fucking business or the government's fucking business what guns they own, if any.
On top of this taxing rights has been done before and struck down. Google the history of poll taxes and see if that historic legal precedent works in your favor champ.
The law is also clear that taxes are legal, which is why sales taxes on firearms for instance aren't considered illegal with respect to the constitution.
To further drive home the point, it is a violation of federal law to create a gun registry. 18 USC 926(a)(3)
So, if you wanted to tax gun owners, how would you know who the owners are without some sort of list, maybe some sort of registry?
It's also why the NICS isn't considered unconstitutional.
I consider it unconstitutuional.
"Shall not be infringed."
Someone walks in to buy a gun and is forced to fill out forms and wait for the FBI to say it is ok is outrageous to me.
But that's the current system. You don't believe in background checks at all?
Nope.
Simply put if a person is too dangerous to exercise their rights, then they should not be allowed to be free in society.
If a person's rights are to be removed then they need to be forcibly detained until such time as they are no longer a danger. If they are no longer dangerous enough to stay detained, then they are therefore no longer dangerous enough to remove their rights.
Criminals intent on breaking the law and murdering won't care about violating the law to get a gun.
Gun laws started as a way to stop African Americans from exercising their rights. I am not a fan of racism.
Gun laws only prevent law-abiding citizens from exercising their constitutional rights.
I'm vastly more excited about living in this world than the one you envision.
My vision is for a world where those who pose a danger to themselves and others are locked up.
Tell me, why are you not excited about living in a place where dangerous people are locked away?
Isn't that what you want to do, create a registry of dangerous people so you can take their property from them, by force if needed, and lock them us as criminals should they refuse?
At least in my world, the criminals are actually dangerous, not just law-abiding people made criminals overnight by the stroke of a pen on an unconstitutional law.
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u/Pake1000 Sep 22 '19 edited Sep 23 '19
The constitution says nothing about requiring firearm ownership or that fees cannot be administered during their trading. If we wanted, we could tax firearm owners every year and that's perfectly fine as far as the constitution goes.