Posted on 03/12/2013 6:15:33 PM PDT by marktwain
Can poor people be trusted with guns? Overwhelmingly, Republicans thinks so. But while Democrats fight against taxes on the poor and oppose voter photo IDs because they impose too much of burden, they seem to be doing everything possible – from fees, expensive training requirements, and photo IDs -- to make it next to impossible for the poor to own guns.
Indeed, legislation in at least 17 states around the country is aimed specifically at making it more costly to own a gun. Democrats are voting in mass against exempting the poor from fees when it comes to guns. New Yorkers aren't alone facing everything from registration fees to buying liability insurance.
That's too bad, because many law-abiding citizens, particularly minorities in crime-ridden neighborhoods really do need a gun for self-defense. There is little doubt that the people who are most likely to be victims of violent crime – again, overwhelmingly poor blacks in urban areas -- are also the ones who benefit the most from owning guns. Research, including my own, has demonstrated this.
Apparently, Democrats believe that the right to self-defense is something that only belongs to the wealthy.
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There was a recent article on all the anti-family regulation out there. The analyst, who I think was an economist, stated that individually they make little difference, but in the aggregate they really hurt families.
He went on to mention the requirement for car seats. It used to be that a family could fit 5 in a sedan - mom, dad and three kids. Not any more. To have the 3rd child means moving up to a more expensive minivan.
How did we get here without all the government regulation
if we were all dropping dead from liberty a generation ago?
Yup. THIS needs to be the argument which is made along with the fact that women are at a distinct disadvantage when not allowed to own guns. Use their own arguments against them.
All gun laws are unconstitutional.
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