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This is the way all 20,000 of the firearms laws we enjoy today started.
With a few "common sense" solutions from people who didn't understand the problem, if there even was one.
In 1913, the ratification of the 16th Amendment formalized the Federal Income Tax, which at first, was a very small percentage on most people. The majority of Americans supported it then. And Congress set the rates. Look at what we pay now. Relatively painlessly extracted monthly or bi-weekly since 1943. If Americans had to stroke a check for the full balance in one check annually, accountability might return.
One day in the not too distant future, when you are paying $500 per background check, a 100% tax on arms and ammunition, and $5,000 per year for liability insurance, you will be able to say, "Wow, I remember when it started out as a few "common sense" fees." It is all "for the children," of course.
Right off of the Brady Campaign's wish list.
They "allow" you an ever decreasing portion of a God given Right, while in reality restricting it further, and you are expected to be thankful. Death by 20,000 cuts and counting.
TR
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"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat." - President Theodore Roosevelt, 1910
De Oppresso Liber 01/20/2025
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