To stoop to their level only dishonors all those who fought for the very freedoms we cherish and others take for granted.
Did you know that our taxes were intended to focus on the rich and affluent? Over the years we have seen the steady creep that now has on average 45 percent of your income collectively going to some sort of tax whether that be sales, state, federal or otherwise.
Our concerns about 'reasonable' and 'sensible' firearm legislation isn't unfounded. We have seen how things creep over time.
#frogsauna
"As Jeffrey Rosen notes in his 2018 biography of Taft, populist Democrats argued that the tariffs and excise taxes that the government depended upon for revenue put a disproportionate burden upon struggling farmers and workers, and argued for a tax that would capture more of affluent Americans’ income. In 1894, they joined forces with progressive Republicans to pass legislation that created a 2 percent tax on incomes over $4,000, along with reduced tariffs."
Source: History.com
"We got one of the first red-flag laws in the state of Delaware, and my son Beau was the one enforcing it. And it made a lot of difference. It saves lives. So that’s number one."
- President Biden
However, 'Red Flag' laws are without question unconstitutional as they fail to met 'Due Process' requirements of our United States Constitution, the true Law of the Land.
"Number two, the idea — the idea we still allow semiautomatic weapons to be purchased is sick. It’s just sick. It has no, no social redeeming value. Zero. None. Not a single, solitary rationale for it except profit for the gun manufacturers."
- President Biden
Freudian slip? The desire is clear.
#reasonable #commonsense #2A
well this stinks (see second definition). Looks like we are starting to redefine words quietly so that it becomes part of our lexicon and thus not to be questioned #brainwashing nah.... just change the meaning:
assault rifle
noun
: any of various intermediate-range, magazine-fed military rifles (such as the AK-47) that can be set for automatic or semiautomatic fire
also : a rifle that resembles a military assault rifle but is designed to allow only semiautomatic fire
The Real Reason America Doesn’t Have Gun Control
"the 54 senators who supported the bill (plus then–Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, who opposed it only for procedural reasons) represented 194 million Americans. The remaining senators who opposed the bill represented 118 million people."
Here is a hint: We are not a Democracy whereby the pure majority rule. We are a Constitutional Republic. We are a representative government that recognizes the People as well as those states within these united States.
