According to Elizabeth Warren — only rich folk should have access to guns and ammunition? — Did'ja think that one through, Senator?

© 2019 Peter Free

 

10 August 2019

 

 

I do not think that this is going to play well . . .

 

. . . with many of the economically challenged people — whom presidential candidate Senator Elizabeth Warren needs to elect her to the presidency:

 

 

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) wants to sharply increase taxes on guns and ammunition as part of a comprehensive new plan to reduce gun deaths in the United States by 80%.

 

For a century, the federal government has imposed an excise tax on manufacturers and importers of guns and ammunition. Handguns are taxed at 10%, while all other guns and ammunition are taxed at 11%.

 

Warren would raise the tax on guns to 30% and the tax on ammunition to 50%.

 

© 2019 Kevin Robillard, Elizabeth Warren Wants To Raise Taxes On Guns And Ammunition, Huffington Post (10 August 2019)

 

 

In other words (according to Senator Warren) . . .

 

. . . let's give American oligarchs one more unmatchable means with which to keep the rest of us quiescent.

 

 

The moral? — Warren's gun and ammo-taxing position alone — is fully capable of ending her bid for the presidency

 

What (arguably) incognizant foolishness on her part.

 

And an inconsistent position at that — given her other political stances' attempts to appeal to economic underlings like us.

 

Sometimes, one has to keep both tree (gun violence) and forest (economic and political oppression) in sight — at the same time.

 

Why is it that no one in American leadership tries to do this?