Problem with taxes, though, is that the gubmint can use them to keep people from owning guns.
“Sure, you can have a .357 on your nightstand but it’ll cost you $2000 a year in ‘gun taxes’”.
Someone much wiser than I once said something like: you can enslave people with chains or with taxes.
Oh, LET a politician propose that.
Or $200.00 tax per bullet. We have to stop that too as “infringement”.
I have a dream...
This will go our way.
The laws will be made to conform to the Constitution.
DC population will have a major gun purchase frenzy.
DC will experience a brief frenzy of gun violence, mostly ending with thugs, thieves, rapists, home intruders and gang members being fought off.
The crime underworld who don’t/can’t read newspapers finally get the message that there is a change in the world, that people are not easy victims any more. That they might get shot if they try to victimize.
Crime, both violent and property, drops significantly in our nation’s capital, proving to the country and the world that gun control is an empty promise, counterproductive, and nothing more than what it really is, which is a grab for power from the people.
Future gun control attempts are met with charges of treason.