Posted on 04/01/2024 8:01:03 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Colorado Democrats are pushing an 11 percent excise tax on gun and ammunition sales, as well as numerous other California-style gun controls.
There is a public hearing on the excise tax proposal today, and Colorado Springs firearms instructor Ana Flanell is urging the public to rally against the tax.
On Easter Sunday she posted to X: “Join me at the Capitol tomorrow to testify against this “sin” tax. Self-defense is our right and we should not be taxed an outrageous 11% to exercise our Second Amendment rights. I’ve included a screenshot below of what to select when signing up. Let’s fight this Colorado!!!”
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Ping.
The power to tax == power to deny.
“Oddly”, no (R) counters w/ an ‘excise tax’ on voting, just to point out the hypocrisy/duplicity
They think if they tax tax tax it people will stop using but they’ll have no trouble flushing the money LOL
They should’ve stayed in New York or California.
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and Denver official suggests migrants go to NYC, warning they would ‘suffer even more’ if they stayed.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4228255/posts
How stupid. Don’t the legislators in CO realize that purchase options exist outside the state? The predicted outcome: Mom and Pop stores selling guns and ammo disappear. Knowing the Democrats, that’s probably the goal, but I seriously doubt that it will restrict gun and ammo sales to CO residents in any measurable way.
The far lefties sure turned Colorado into a third world crapper in a hurry.
Native Coloradoans needs to get off their asses and make their state a Gun Sanctuary state. All guns should be welcome there and also be allowed to bring their owners with them.
Ana is terribly wrong. In a Marxist state self defense is not a right. That right is reserved solely for the state.
In summary, Colorado Democrats who lack intelligence or creativity. They therefore have to rely on California DemocRATs, arguably the most corrupt and least intelligent beings in the multiverse for any ideas. Thankfully, Colorado residents have sufficient supplies of all materials needed for the thousands of guillotines they’ll need when they finally decide to practice mass-dorkacide.
These morons think this will reduce crime? Oh yeah - especially when law-abiding citizens are not the ones committing crimes.
Spent almost a year there 1969-1970. Fort Carson. Beautiful state. Great people. That was then, this is now.
"Colorado Democrats Pushing 11% Excise Firearms Tax, Other California Gun Controls"
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
Anti-2nd Amendment (2A) California and Colorado State Democrats and RINOs aren't the main problem with restrictive state gun policies imo, the Colorado excise firearms tax in this example. The corrupt, constitutionally undefined political parties that have pirated control of the federal government are the main problem concerning state abridgment of constitutionally enumerated protections imo.
More specifically, worthless Congress is not doing its 14th Amendment (14A) duty to make penal laws that discourage state actors from abridging constitutionally enumerated protections, 2A in this example.
Excerpted from 14A:
"Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States [emphasis added]; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."
"Section 5: The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article."
Regarding Section 1 above, note that the congressional record shows that Rep. John Bingham, the main author of that section, had included 2A when he read the Bill of Rights as main examples of privileges and immunities that 14A applies to the states.
“See 2nd Amendment (Article II) about middle of 2nd column.” — John Bingham, Appendix to the Congressional Globe
The remedy for renegade state and federal governments oppressing the people with unconstitutional restrictive gun laws ...
Democratic and Republican Trump supporters need to IMMEDIATELY primary ALL incumbent state and federal lawmakers since they aren't doing their jobs to protect constitutionally enumerated protections. Patriots then need to support hopeful Trump 47 with a new patriot Congress in November that will actually do its duty to make 14A-based penal laws that discourage state actors from abridging constitutionally enumerated protections.
Patriots, the post-17th Amendment ratification Congress that you elected is not your friend.
‘Shall not be infringed...’
Colorado is one of the prettiest states we have. And it used to be such a good place to live, too. Now that the Californicators have taken it over, forget it! It is a lost cause
A way needs to be found to prevent the communist Californicators from taking over smaller states. Oregon, another really beautiful place which was always a great place to live, used to have big billboard signs just north of its Calif border, to greet people entering Oregon. The signs said, simply: “Please Don’t Californicate Oregon!”
Regrettably, signs have proven insufficient to the cause and Oregon has become a leftist cesspool Colorado. Same happened to Washington state and ....
We need to find a way to prevent this damage to the rest of the country.
Definitely not the Colorado I lived in decades ago and loved to visit. They were warned fifty years ago!
“DON’T CALIFORNICATE COLORADO!”
Well, they have been and now Californicating New Mexico.
And no records will be kept, right?
This is what happens when you allow open borders. We should never have let Californians in. Legal immigration for FReepers would have been okay though.
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