The totalitarian
temptation is proving too much for the
left across America. Daniel Flynn, in his book A Conservative
History of the American Left,
contrasted the “Freedom Left”, the benign old-fashioned liberals,
versus the “Force Left”, the descendants of Marx that malignantly
oppose fundamental rights in pursuit of their radical aims. The Force
Left has successfully seized control of their movement, and their
fundamental transformation is manifesting in current events daily as we
watch their struggle for ever more power.
As
Chelsea Clinton reminded us last week, a divided court without Scalia
standing guard could dismantle the Second Amendment at any time, and a
Hillary Clinton presidency would hasten that in any way possible.
The left as a whole has long been hostile to the Second Amendment, but
has been divided of the regulatory means of mitigating its effects.
Background checks, registries, magazine limits have all been
incrementalist “salami tactics” to limit gun ownership, and according
to them, limit violence.
The latest tack is to levy taxes against weapons and ammunition — some
more confiscatory than others. In Seattle, it is 25 dollars per
firearm, with a nickel tax on ammunition over .22 caliber, and a 2 cent
tax on smaller calibers, which the National Rifle Association is
litigating against. In the Northern Marianas Islands, to compensate for
losing their handgun ban in court, their Governor imposed a $1,000
“excise” tax on the importation of firearms.
The end game of these taxes is to discourage the purchases, create
better documentation surrounding purchases, and limit the accessibility
of exercising a constitutional right. But like the poll tax violating
the right to vote, a confiscatory gun tax surely violates the
individual right to keep and bear arms. If treated like real estate, a
firearms tax could become a way to confiscate weapons from those who
could not pay the tax, thus discriminating against the poor from
exercising their Second Amendment rights.
Onerous laws like this are being enacted all across America, with any
given one of them leading to a legal challenge that will work their way
to the Supreme Court. As Chelsea Clinton reminded us last week, a
divided court without Scalia standing guard could dismantle the Second
Amendment at any time, and a Hillary Clinton presidency would hasten
that in any way possible. When was the last time that children of
Presidential candidates rallied support against the Bill of Rights?
This blatant contempt for limited, constitutional government is without
parallel in any time in our history.
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