The Dealer will never be in court explaining they followed the law and sold the car and reported the sale to the DMV and the Tax Commissioner.
Here's the difference. To own a car in Illinois, I have to be licensed, insured, and permited by both the state and city I live in to own a car. There are hundreds of cops out there ready to pull me over if I violate even a minor traffic law like speeding or not coming to a complete stop at a stop sign. I would LOVE it if we regulated guns the way we regulate cars.
But you want gun makers to suffer through this. Not because you want justice for the victims. Not because you want to hold the guilty accountable. But because you want to bankrupt the companies with frivolous lawsuits.
I want to bankrupt them because of their irresponsibility. The thing is, cars are utilitarian. Why you do have car enthusiasts, most of us just use our cars to get places. Guns, on the other hand, are really not necessary. There's no good reason to own a gun if you aren't a soldier or a cop. But the gun industry keeps marketing even more dangerous guns, becuase they realize they are going to make more money off of THIS GUY
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than they will off the guy who bought one gun once, and maybe takes it out once a year to target practice.
In another thread, you admit you want to bankrupt companies who make guns, which proves the provisions applied to the Lawful Firearms Protection Act is required. But let’s take your car analogy, weak as it might be.
I actually do not have to license, get tags and pay taxes, or get insurance on a car I buy. I have to do so if I want to drive it on the road. But lets say I want to use it on my property. A work truck that will not leave the land. No tags, insurance, or taxes required. I can even get a waiver and get my gasoline Tax Free. Red Gas. A crime to use it on the road, but legal to use on private property.
Or let’s say I buy a Four Wheel Drive Truck, I make major modifications to it in my garage, and when I am done, it is set up for mudding. But those modifications have made it illegal to operate on the road. Now, I am not allowed to get tags, much less insurance. No insurance company would pay off if I was driving it in the mud, as intended, and crashed it. If they did, it would be accompanied by a letter saying I am no longer insured with them.
The truth is, there are a lot of vehicles, that are not insured. Dirt Bikes, Four Wheelers, Go Fast Carts. None of them are insured or licensed, they’re illegal to use on the road.
So would you charge insurance only on those who want to take their guns into public? The CCW folks? They already pay fees to get their CCW, and many, myself included, are signed up with groups like the USCCA, which offers insurance so long as I am not committing a crime with my weapon at the time of the shooting. In other words, I did not go to an Ex Girlfriends house and fire some shots at her. It has to be defensive shooting.
As I said, they pay fees, so the taxes is covered. They’re licensed, and if they are not insured, they generally do not cause any problems. Statistically, the CCW folks are the least criminal of all groupings of citizens. Police are arrested more frequently, per captia, than CCW folks. The McMichaels not withstanding, the CCW folks most common criminal activity is not having their license with them. In Georgia, that is a Felony.
So demanding that people have insurance and taxes, and licenses for their weapons, is that not a little vindictive? What would you say if someone decided that Explicit Albums must pay a fee to be sold? I would argue it is a violation of the First Amendment. I would encourage one of the groups I belong to, the ACLU, to take the case and fight it.
What you would do, if you enacted this scheme, is put self defense out of the reach of the poorest people, living in the most crime ridden neighborhoods. You would hurt those who need it the most. The rich, and middle class, would pay the fees, and laugh at you while they were doing it. People who had guns, and couldn’t afford the fees, like the poor, would become criminals, and all you would do is make a lot of White Power idiots very happy. Then they could point at the poor Blacks, Browns, and Whites, and say that they are all criminals. It would be used as proof of the criminal nature of the minorities who could not afford your punitive taxes, and fees, and drive more people into their waiting arms. Pretty ******* stupid if you ask me, which is another, in a long list, of why I would Oppose it.