A modest proposal
Treating guns like health insurance
Surveys indicate that gun ownership is not spread evenly across U.S. households. In fact, chances are that a substantial proportion of U.S. gun owners have more than one weapon, so it’s quite possible that fewer than 200 million Americans own those 260 million guns. That means there may be more than 100 million citizens left unprotected against their gun-owning fellow citizens.
Surely everyone can agree that this is an outrage. Moreover, it is an outrage that Congress can easily fix, without months of committee meetings, town halls or tea parties. All that is required is a bipartisan, pro-constitutional bill to extend the Second Amendment’s protection of gun ownership to all Americans, whether they like it or not.
Under such legislation — let’s call it the Gun Insurance Act of 2009 — every American would be required to buy some kind of gun. Those who cannot afford even the simplest weapon — say, those whose 2009 annual income is less than twice the federal poverty level — could be issued $500 vouchers that would be valid only at gun shops or gun shows, and would have to be used before the 2010 Census.
You non-gun-owning people aren’t doing your part so the Feds should make you.
November 18th, 2009 at 10:21 am
And socialize lawyers. The high price of lawyers is damaging poor Americans. Use Medicare as the template.
November 18th, 2009 at 10:24 am
That’s too extreme. All I really want is the middle ground.
November 18th, 2009 at 12:31 pm
Nice and anyone who wants to opt out can become a felon or reveal their mental defect.
November 18th, 2009 at 2:08 pm
Sounds like a good bill to me.
Anyone who refuses to purchase or obtain a gun will be charged with a federal felony punishable by a fine up to $250,000 and/or 5 years in prison.
Oh, the howls we would hear then….
November 18th, 2009 at 3:46 pm
Would we get a tax break for every gun we own? 🙂
November 18th, 2009 at 4:04 pm
Huck – Every gun owner would be sent a $500 check for each gun they own and own no federal taxes until 2011.
November 18th, 2009 at 4:16 pm
$500? What are you liking the other bailouts? How about just $200 for a shotty or Highpoint (ugly but get the job done).
November 18th, 2009 at 7:10 pm
Such a great idea that I had to link to it:
http://aroundotown.blogspot.com/2009/11/say-uncle-has-right-idea.html