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Awww…. You poor thing. Texas loves passing laws that allow people to murder one another. Maybe go there?

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I get you don’t like guns but what if we instituted a poll tax? If you aren’t wealthy enough to vote you must not care about your representation enough. Taxing enumerated rights is dangerous. If you don’t like the right, do the hard work of changing the constitution.

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False equivalence. A vote is not a gun.

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It’s a false equivalence because of the 24th Amendment.

Amendment Twenty-four to the Constitution was ratified on January 23, 1964. It abolished and forbids the federal and state governments from imposing taxes on voters during federal elections.

Prior to that, poll taxes were legal. Just as taxes on guns and ammo are legal. Every state with a sales tax afaik applies it to guns.

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Both are constitutional rights. Newsom is pandering with a law he knows will get struck down.

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Maybe move back to England where your lilly ass would be milking the kings cows if citizens were never allowed to bear arms.

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Seems things are hand-over-fist better there as it is than things are in America when it comes to dipshits with firearms, wouldn’t you agree? I mean, I don’t see anyone there complaining about their rights to murder school children like you knuckleheaded Cletuses do here.

So, in essence, I’d fucking love to move there. It’s safer. And they respect life.

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That’s because they’re complaining about all their other rights being taken away en masse.

Wanna know what makes things like protests work in the U.S.? That’s right, the underlying threat of violence (with guns).

I can’t believe it, there are posts daily about authoritarianism on the rise globally (that means in the U.S. too) and there are still idiots that think guns are the problem. It’s genuinely mindblowing. You’re just another authoritarian that paints itself in leftist colors.

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