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How about making gun owners pay more taxes

By tovarichpeter   Follow   Sat, 2 Feb 2013, 8:27am   1,250 views   60 comments
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For a lot of people, one is never enough and bigger is always better. That includes magazines that hold more rounds. The 22-caliber, bolt action rifle that I learned to shoot at age 11 as a Boy Scout is insufficient.

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1. Peter P Follow Befriend (4) 117 threads 17,655 comments Premium

   21   12:59pm Sat 2 Feb 2013   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   Raw says How about our right to safety? Yep. Most Americans will not be allowed to drive.

2. Call it Crazy Follow Befriend 229 threads 2,786 comments

   22   1:38pm Sat 2 Feb 2013   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like (2)   Dislike   Reality says It seems to me, people should get tax breaks for owning guns legally, as that cuts down the profitability of violent gangs and reduce the need to spend on building a paramilitary police. You might have a good idea there. Gun owners should get a reduction on their homeowners insurance, like they do for having an alarm system. After all, they are providing a better level of security for their home than what the police provide.

3. New Renter Follow Befriend (3) 13 threads 2,227 comments San Jose, CA Premium

   23   2:01pm Sat 2 Feb 2013   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   Of course its was a tax which was the first step to the criminilization of marijuana.

4. jan Follow Befriend 4 threads 68 comments McKeesport, PA

   24   2:10pm Sat 2 Feb 2013   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   Private gun ownership is not to protect the house, it is to protect yourself from an overreaching government. Once they take the 2nd away it is SO much easier to take away the others. It is a lynch pin issue. And we have an overreaching government.

5. errc Follow Befriend (7) 30 threads 1,220 comments 31 male Premium

   25   2:23pm Sat 2 Feb 2013   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like (2)   Dislike   What about a tax on people advocating more and higher taxes? I mean, they are so pro more taxes, they'd be lining up to fill the coffers at treasury, right? These same people would certainly never OUTRIGHT CHEAT AND LIE ON THEIR OWN TAXES LMFAO ROFL

6. mell Follow Befriend (5) 57 threads 1,327 comments Premium

   26   3:37pm Sat 2 Feb 2013   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   Raw says zzyzzx says How about making parents pay more taxes? After all, it's for their children!!! We need children to pay for our retirement when they grow up and start working. If anything, we need to invest in them, educate them, and make sure they develop into high earners so that they can pay lots of taxes to support us. I have grand plans when I retire and want to make sure the future generations can pay for it. :) Yeah, but this is a ponzi scheme by definition as people become older and older but need more and more expensive medical care during their old years. Does not compute.

7. New Renter Follow Befriend (3) 13 threads 2,227 comments San Jose, CA Premium

   27   5:34pm Sat 2 Feb 2013   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   jan says Private gun ownership is not to protect the house, it is to protect yourself from an overreaching government. Once they take the 2nd away it is SO much easier to take away the others. It is a lynch pin issue. And we have an overreaching government. How exactly does your glock protect you from higher taxes? Or from warrantless wiretapping?

8. IDDQD Follow Befriend 22 threads 409 comments

   28   6:45pm Sat 2 Feb 2013   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   Raw says In the old days you would have challenged me to a gun fight at OK Corrall, and you would have easily won because I have never fired a gun. But today, we challenge you to a duel in the Halls of Congress and the courts. Were you living under a rock? Anti-gun nuts have been losing in the courts badly(Heller, McDonald, etc.).More beating is on the way.

9. Reality Follow Befriend 2 threads 1,645 comments

   29   8:24pm Sat 2 Feb 2013   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   New Renter says How exactly does your glock protect you from higher taxes? Or from warrantless wiretapping? An un-armed populance would demand ever more heavily armed police and para-military bureaucrats to protect them, instead of taking responsible actions for their own defense. If pilots had been armed on 9/11 and had been trained to fight back instead of submit to criminals like sheep, much of the subsequent loss of liberty in the US may well have been avoided.

10. lostand confused Follow Befriend (9) 166 threads 1,551 comments Premium

    30   8:27pm Sat 2 Feb 2013   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   Raw says How about our right to safety? The right to have our children grow up in safety must take precedence over the rights of others to own assault weapons. We want to live in a safe, progressive and peaceful country. You would love Mexico, where they have very strict gun laws. The gun market is underground, just like the drug market here. Oh, it isn't safe by any stretch of imagination.

11. thomaswong.1986 Follow Befriend 15 threads 2,851 comments

    31   8:30pm Sat 2 Feb 2013   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   tovarichpeter says How about making gun owners pay more taxes tax to discourage their right under the constitution... sort like a tax to discourage minorities from VOTING... REALLY only a pompous ass Liberal would think of that... They seem OK with that ,,,, Irony !

12. lostand confused Follow Befriend (9) 166 threads 1,551 comments Premium

    32   8:37pm Sat 2 Feb 2013   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   You gun control advocates need to go out and have some fun.

13. thomaswong.1986 Follow Befriend 15 threads 2,851 comments

    33   8:38pm Sat 2 Feb 2013   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   will the anti-gun lobby go after unregistered illegal guns... like they go after unregistered illegal aliens..

14. Call it Crazy Follow Befriend 229 threads 2,786 comments

    34   8:55pm Sat 2 Feb 2013   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   thomaswong.1986 says will the anti-gun lobby go after unregistered illegal guns... like they go after unregistered illegal aliens.. and illegal drugs...

15. Vicente Follow Befriend (8) 204 threads 4,416 comments Davis, CA

    35   8:59pm Sat 2 Feb 2013   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   Let's start here: People who vote for wars, should be required to fund them.

16. lostand confused Follow Befriend (9) 166 threads 1,551 comments Premium

    36   9:01pm Sat 2 Feb 2013   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like (1)   Dislike   Vicente says Let's start here: People who vote for wars, should be required to fund them. Or even better, be shipped off to the frontlines to fight.

17. New Renter Follow Befriend (3) 13 threads 2,227 comments San Jose, CA Premium

    37   9:07pm Sat 2 Feb 2013   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   Reality says If pilots had been armed on 9/11 and had been trained to fight back instead of submit to criminals like sheep, much of the subsequent loss of liberty in the US may well have been avoided. LOL! You clearly have watched too many bad movies. The pilots had their hands full just dealing with the airplanes. I doubt even a well trained and armed flight attendant would have risked firing a weapon into a crowded aircraft. It's far more likely any firearms would have ended up in the hands of the terrorists. Against nutcases armed with box cutters in a crowded aircraft hand to hand combat training would have been FAR more useful. Nice try though.

18. New Renter Follow Befriend (3) 13 threads 2,227 comments San Jose, CA Premium

    38   9:09pm Sat 2 Feb 2013   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   Reality says An un-armed populance would demand ever more heavily armed police and para-military bureaucrats to protect them, instead of taking responsible actions for their own defense. How did it feel when you pulled this out of your ass?

19. Vicente Follow Befriend (8) 204 threads 4,416 comments Davis, CA

    39   9:12pm Sat 2 Feb 2013   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like (1)   Dislike   New Renter says Against nutcases armed with box cutters in a crowded aircraft hand to hand combat training would have been FAR more useful. It wasn't a problem of armament or hand-to-hand combat experts. It was a mindset problem, that flight crews had it drummed into their heads NOT to resist a hijacking. Because NOBODY would be crazy enough to crash their plane into buildings right? Passengers prior to 9/11 generally would have had this mindset too, wait it out and at the end SWAT or Dirty Harry or someone will clean their clocks. You didn't need guns on the plane, United Flight 93 proved this point.

20. New Renter Follow Befriend (3) 13 threads 2,227 comments San Jose, CA Premium

    40   9:15pm Sat 2 Feb 2013   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   Vicente says New Renter says Against nutcases armed with box cutters in a crowded aircraft hand to hand combat training would have been FAR more useful. It wasn't a problem of armament or hand-to-hand combat. It was a mindset problem, that flight crews had it drummed into their heads NOT to resist a hijacking. Because NOBODY would be crazy enough to crash their plane into buildings right? Passengers prior to 9/11 generally would have had this mindset too, wait it out and at the end SWAT or Dirty Harry or someone will clean their clocks. You didn't need guns on the plane, you just needed crew and passengers to go Flight 93 on the hijackers. Understood. My point was IF resistance was to be offered hand to hand would have been more effective than a firearm.

21. Call it Crazy Follow Befriend 229 threads 2,786 comments

    41   9:24pm Sat 2 Feb 2013   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   Vicente says People who vote for wars, should be required to fund them. I believe they already do.... it's certainly not Obama's 47% that's paying for them.

22. Reality Follow Befriend 2 threads 1,645 comments

    42   10:02pm Sat 2 Feb 2013   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   lostand confused says Vicente says Let's start here: People who vote for wars, should be required to fund them. Or even better, be shipped off to the frontlines to fight. Agree! And those advocate gun bans should be shipped off to cities like Detroit, Chicago, NYC and DC combat zones where civilian gun ownership is already banned.

23. Reality Follow Befriend 2 threads 1,645 comments

    43   10:05pm Sat 2 Feb 2013   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   New Renter says LOL! You clearly have watched too many bad movies. The pilots had their hands full just dealing with the airplanes. I doubt even a well trained and armed flight attendant would have risked firing a weapon into a crowded aircraft. It's far more likely any firearms would have ended up in the hands of the terrorists. Against nutcases armed with box cutters in a crowded aircraft hand to hand combat training would have been FAR more useful. Nice try though. Piloting a modern passenger airliner mid-flight consists of turning on the auto-pilot switch. As for your assertion about firearms being most likely taken by the terrorists, that must be why they put air marshalls on flights. What do you think the air marshalls are armed with? magic lassos?

24. Reality Follow Befriend 2 threads 1,645 comments

    44   10:09pm Sat 2 Feb 2013   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   New Renter says Reality says An un-armed populance would demand ever more heavily armed police and para-military bureaucrats to protect them, instead of taking responsible actions for their own defense. How did it feel when you pulled this out of your ass? Haven't you noticed where the votes for more police come from? Haven't you noticed the common sight of policemen in former eastern bloc countries where civilian gun ownership was outlawed? That's assuming you travel around the world.

25. Reality Follow Befriend 2 threads 1,645 comments

    45   10:11pm Sat 2 Feb 2013   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   New Renter says Understood. My point was IF resistance was to be offered hand to hand would have been more effective than a firearm. That must be why all the air marshalls were armed with a third hand instead of a gun. LOL.

26. Reality Follow Befriend 2 threads 1,645 comments

    46   10:14pm Sat 2 Feb 2013   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   Vicente says You didn't need guns on the plane, United Flight 93 proved this point. United Flight 93 proved that when guns are not on the plane, a missile might become necessary to blow up the plane mid-air and spread fragments over several miles. What, you think the passengers took apart the plane mid-air with their bare hands and proceeded to drop the pieces off in the final few miles?

27. Vicente Follow Befriend (8) 204 threads 4,416 comments Davis, CA

    47   10:44pm Sat 2 Feb 2013   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   Call it Crazy says I believe they already do Let me know those "balanced budget" people raise taxes to pay for the wars. Oh right, GOP doesn't raise taxes ever. Wars will magically pay for themselves.

28. Vicente Follow Befriend (8) 204 threads 4,416 comments Davis, CA

    48   10:57pm Sat 2 Feb 2013   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   thomaswong.1986 says tax to discourage their right under the constitution... sort like a tax to discourage minorities from VOTING... REALLY only a pompous ass Liberal would think of that... They seem OK with that ,,,, Irony ! Yeah sort of like a VOTING TAX, or trying to make it difficult to register to vote, or stand in unreasonably long lines! I mean, if you in any way ever inconvenience a citizen then you're HITLER! That never happens in America right?

29. thomaswong.1986 Follow Befriend 15 threads 2,851 comments

    49   10:58pm Sat 2 Feb 2013   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   Vicente says Let me know those "balanced budget" people raise taxes to pay for the wars would you be for the Iraq / Afghan invasion had it been paid for ? ... doubtful! if you dont want to fight cause your a pacifist.. than get out of the way !

30. thomaswong.1986 Follow Befriend 15 threads 2,851 comments

    50   11:04pm Sat 2 Feb 2013   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike (1)   Vicente says difficult to register to vote, or stand in unreasonably long lines! I mean, unreasonable long lines.. nada.. very reasonable when over 200M are voting. and yes.. registering should include checks to see citizen status.. dont want them damn pesky Canadians influencing American elections. Safe controls over votingis a must. If Congress mandates Sarbanes Oxley over business/industry than the same standards and best practices should apply to Govt.

31. Vicente Follow Befriend (8) 204 threads 4,416 comments Davis, CA

    51   11:20pm Sat 2 Feb 2013   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   thomaswong.1986 says registering should include checks to see citizen status.. dont want them damn pesky Canadians influencing American elections. So you're for spending money like a faucet, without any checks to see if it's a REASONABLE expenditure of money. Deploy bulldozers made of gold to swat a fly. You must be one of those spend-happy Libruls. Sort of like that fellow in Florida thought it'd be a BRILLIANT idea to drug-test welfare recipients, which turned up nearly nothing except a fat profit for companies doing drug testing. I'm quite certain I've been told it's only idiotic Libruls who spend money like crazy on fears that have no basis in fact.

32. thomaswong.1986 Follow Befriend 15 threads 2,851 comments

    52   11:45pm Sat 2 Feb 2013   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   Vicente says So you're for spending money like a faucet, without any checks to see if it's a REASONABLE expenditure of money. Deploy bulldozers made of gold to swat a fly. as if you were for someone like Romney when it comes to control spending. PLEASE.. who you foolin' Vicente says Sort of like that fellow in Florida thought it'd be a BRILLIANT idea to drug-test welfare recipients, which turned up nearly nothing except a fat profit for companies doing drug testing. LOL! South Florida has had blistering problems of coke addicts since the mid 70s. and many in San Francisco Prime on welfare do buy on the 15 and 30th of the month.. they even wrote a RAP song about it...Bone Thugs-n-Harmony – 1st of tha Month Proposition N - Care not Cash This measure appeared on the November 2002 San Francisco ballot. http://www.spur.org/goodgovernment/ballotanalysis/Nov2002/propn This measure is an attempt to solve a piece of the homeless problem in San Francisco. It deals with the issue of general assistance cash grants--i.e., "welfare checks"--that are given to homeless people. Currently, San Francisco provides vastly larger amounts of money than other counties in the region. Many people believe that this causes two problems: 1) homeless people from other places come to San Francisco; 2) homeless people who are addicted to drugs or alcohol end up spending their welfare checks on their addictions instead of meeting their basic needs. Care Not Cash attempts to remedy this problem by shifting the city's general assistance support for homeless individuals into the form of vouchers for food and shelter instead of cash. The Effects of Government Transfers on Monthly Cycles in Drug Abuse, Crime and Mortality Carlos Dobkin* and Steven L. Puller** March 2006 Abstract This paper analyzes the monthly patterns of adverse outcomes due to the consumption of illegal drugs by recipients of government transfer payments. We find evidence that certain subpopulations on government cash aid significantly increase their consumption of drugs when their checks arrive at the beginning of the month, and as a result, experience adverse events including arrest, hospitalization, and death. Using data from California, we find that the overall rate of drug related hospital admissions increases abruptly at the beginning of the month, with admissions increasing 25% during the first five days of the month. We find that this cycle is driven largely by recipients of Supplemental Security Income (SSI). SSI recipients also experience an abrupt 22% increase in within hospital mortality after receiving their checks on the first of the month.

33. thomaswong.1986 Follow Befriend 15 threads 2,851 comments

    53   11:46pm Sat 2 Feb 2013   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike (1)   Vicente says I'm quite certain I've been told it's only idiotic Libruls who spend money like crazy on fears that have no basis in fact. you been told right.. and so it is!

34. thomaswong.1986 Follow Befriend 15 threads 2,851 comments

    54   11:54pm Sat 2 Feb 2013   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   The Facts.... http://www.drugfree.org/join-together/drugs/almost-1600-welfare-applicants-in-florida-decline-to-undergo-drug-testing Almost 1,600 Welfare Applicants in Florida Decline to Undergo Drug Testing By Join Together Staff | October 12, 2011 | 28 Comments | Filed in Community Related, Drugs, Government, Legislation & Prevention Almost 1,600 people applying for welfare benefits in Florida have declined to undergo drug testing, which is required by a new state law. According to state officials, less than one percent of the 7,028 welfare applicants who underwent screening tested positive for drugs since the law went into effect in July. and what the ACLU said... of course no comments made regarding those who declined to test. http://www.aclu.org/blog/criminal-law-reform-racial-justice/just-we-suspected-florida-saved-nothing-drug-testing-welfare In the four months that Florida's law was in place, the state drug tested 4,086 TANF applicants. A mere 108 individuals tested positive. To put it another way, only 2.6 percent of applicants tested positive for illegal drugs — a rate more than three times lower than the 8.13 percent of all Floridians, age 12 and up, estimated by the federal government to use illegaldrugs. Now might be a good time to remind folks that in the debate over the bill, Gov. Rick Scott argued that this law was necessary because, he said, welfare recipients used drugs at a higher rate than the general population.

35. Vicente Follow Befriend (8) 204 threads 4,416 comments Davis, CA

    55   12:38am Sun 3 Feb 2013   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   thomaswong.1986 says as if you were for someone like Romney when it comes to control spending. I'm all for controlling spending, WHEN it make sense. Something I have no idea if President RMoney knows anything about, never worked with him. I have a crazy relative who'll drive across town to save 10 cents on something. Because they don't have enough sense to include the time cost of the additional drive, and fuel and wear&tear costs to get there and back. Do you spend $1 to save a dime? How is that "cutting spending"? What's the cost/benefit on the drug testing?

36. New Renter Follow Befriend (3) 13 threads 2,227 comments San Jose, CA Premium

    56   9:49am Sun 3 Feb 2013   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   Reality says New Renter says LOL! You clearly have watched too many bad movies. The pilots had their hands full just dealing with the airplanes. I doubt even a well trained and armed flight attendant would have risked firing a weapon into a crowded aircraft. It's far more likely any firearms would have ended up in the hands of the terrorists. Against nutcases armed with box cutters in a crowded aircraft hand to hand combat training would have been FAR more useful. Nice try though. Piloting a modern passenger airliner mid-flight consists of turning on the auto-pilot switch. As for your assertion about firearms being most likely taken by the terrorists, that must be why they put air marshalls on flights. What do you think the air marshalls are armed with? magic lassos? The autopilot is great for a normal flight which a hijacking is far from. the pilots would have tried to get the plane on the ground as quickly - and as safely - as possible. One can' t do that on autopilot. Perhaps now it might be possible to override and shut out the cockpit entirely and fly a hijacked plane from the ground. As for air marshals I would think they would be perfectly capable of disarming guys armed with nothing more than boxcutters on a crowded plane without the need of a firearm.

37. Reality Follow Befriend 2 threads 1,645 comments

    57   10:11am Sun 3 Feb 2013   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   New Renter says The autopilot is great for a normal flight which a hijacking is far from. the pilots would have tried to get the plane on the ground as quickly - and as safely - as possible. One can' t do that on autopilot. Perhaps now it might be possible to override and shut out the cockpit entirely and fly a hijacked plane from the ground. The technology has been implemented on airliners for much longer than a decade. New Renter says As for air marshals I would think they would be perfectly capable of disarming guys armed with nothing more than boxcutters on a crowded plane without the need of a firearm. So why do you think the air marshals are armed with guns? Do you think people become Batman or Superman as soon as they put on the costume of government bureaucrats?

38. Vicente Follow Befriend (8) 204 threads 4,416 comments Davis, CA

    58   12:07pm Sun 3 Feb 2013   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   New Renter says Perhaps now it might be possible to override and shut out the cockpit entirely and fly a hijacked plane from the ground. Code 16309. http://youtu.be/N4pcIuo6Kbw Hacking an airplane, that'd be a great terrorist weapon.

39. New Renter Follow Befriend (3) 13 threads 2,227 comments San Jose, CA Premium

    59   11:00am Mon 4 Feb 2013   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   Reality says New Renter says As for air marshals I would think they would be perfectly capable of disarming guys armed with nothing more than boxcutters on a crowded plane without the need of a firearm. So why do you think the air marshals are armed with guns? Do you think people become Batman or Superman as soon as they put on the costume of government bureaucrats? Batman or Superman, no. They'd HAVE to be to be capable of taking out a terrorist on a crowded, confined, and physically turbulent aircraft without going through the entire clip on the rest of the passengers and the fuselage OR losing the gun to the terrorist. Do I think someone can be capable of not needing a firearm to disarm a crazy man with a boxcutter? Yes. How do I know? I personally know people who are very well trained in such matters. So why do they carry guns? Maybe to make people like you feel better since you don't seem to have any faith in unarmed combat skills.

40. elliemae Follow Befriend (25) 413 threads 6,983 comments Saint George, UT elliemae's website

    60   11:32am Mon 4 Feb 2013   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   Requiring that gun owners pay more taxes would cause people to lie about owning a gun. Also, would probably result in tax credits for owners who are low income. Bad idea.

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