Posted on 06/30/2021 12:42:59 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
In the wake of the VTA rail yard mass shooting in May, the San Jose City Council unanimously passed two first-in-the-nation gun control measures that are already creating controversy.
One measure requires all gun owners to obtain liability insurance for their firearms, and a second measure requires all gun owners in the city to pay an annual tax that would go towards emergency services responding to gun-related calls. San Jose Mayor Sam Liccardo said the measure is an attempt to compensate taxpayers for the costs of gun violence.
“While the Second Amendment protects the right to bear arms, it does not require taxpayers to subsidize gun ownership," the mayor said in a statement.
Licccardo estimated that the liability insurance fee would be between $25 and $30, and compared it to car insurance. The mandatory gun ownership tax amount has not been determined, but Liccardo's office estimates that gun violence costs the city's taxpayers $442 million annually.
Gun owner groups in the state are furious and plan to take legal action.
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Does this mean that thugs will have to commit more crime in order to afford their equipment?
They don’t care about the criminals, they want tremendous crime.
They are collapsing the system and they just want guns out of law abiding hands for full control.
We’re making it easy.
I have a good friend that used to live there, but who has since moved. I’m glad I never have to go back to San Jose.
So libturd government bodies will charge you for exercising your Constitutional right to own a firearm. An unarmed citizenry has no means to defend itself against tyranny. My cold dead hands!
Technically true, but as of this moment I’ve paid the feral government $2600 for NFA tax stamps that allow me to exercise my right to own a rifle with a barrel that is less than the magic 16” and the right to own a gun muffler that is far less effective than car mufflers that are required by law. So, yes, it is unconstitutional to tax a right, yet here we are.
I pay thousands to support schools that don’t teach and have no children myself. I want my money back!
Isn’t there another handy group punishment target like Jews?
It’s time to reimagine taxation.
I’ll bet a steak dinner that the weenie, leftist mayor won’t try to collect the totally illegal tax from gang-bangers.
sorry, paying a tax would disproportionately affect the poor, those most in need of a firearm. So, no sale.
So I’m assuming you’re NOT Juliet Prouse?
Does this tax apply to the mayor, his friends and family, and his/their security detail? /s
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No.
You can’t tax a constitutional right.
Aside from the Constitutional issues we could do like they do and claim the racism angle, since by their own reasoning it would price and inconvenience minorities out of legal firearm ownership.
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