Lakhota are you objecting that the government should not force people to buy a gun and be taxed if you don't in the interest of personal security?
The government can’t force anyone to buy health insurance or a gun.
As the
Healthcare Cases majority observed:
Congress’s use of the Taxing Clause to encourage buying something is, by contrast, not new. Tax incentives already promote, for example, purchasing homes and professional educa-tions. Upholding the individual mandate under the Taxing Clause thus does not recognize any new federal power. It determines that Congress has used an existing one.
Congress has a plausible rationale for home ownership, professional educations, and health insurance.
What would be the rationale for gun ownership? What would be the purpose of taxing individuals who don’t own a gun?
For example: how much does it cost a given jurisdiction to protect unarmed citizens? How much would be saved by arming all citizens? If all citizens were armed, could local law enforcement be done away with, saving communities that expense?
We know lack of health insurance, and providing care for those without insurance in emergency rooms, drives up health care costs. What costs are being driven up due to a lack of gun ownership?
And what of citizens who can’t defend themselves, armed or not? Ex-offenders, the mentally ill, and minors are not allowed to own guns but they’re entitled to be protected nonetheless. In addition, there are many elderly and disabled persons who can’t use a firearm, including those who are blind or are developmentally disadvantaged.
The fact is, unlike the ACA, there would be a significant percentage of the population exempt from both required gun ownership and the tax whether they can afford to purchase a firearm or not.
Given these facts and examined comprehensively, the ACA/mandatory gun ownership analogy fails.