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$250 for a Chicago handgun license? Cheaper than New York.
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August 11th, 2010 at 9:11 am
Cheaper than the average CCW permit in TX or TN.
August 11th, 2010 at 9:14 am
How is this different from a poll tax?
August 11th, 2010 at 10:20 am
@Diogenes:
A poll tax is on voting, which is much more protected than RTKBA.
August 11th, 2010 at 10:29 am
I dunno about that, Tam. I’d say ours is closer to $200 if you rent a .22 to qualify with.
August 11th, 2010 at 10:58 am
About on Par with a Massachusetts Permit-to-own.
August 11th, 2010 at 11:09 am
@bob dole:
I’m guessing that was tongue-in-cheek. You may be aware that there was no individual right to vote in the original Consitution or Bill of Rights. It’s a antebellum construct that appears fully formed in the 14th and 15th amendments. I chuckle to imagine U.S. Supreme Court justices discussing “reasonable” poll taxes in this century. Yet “reasonable” restrictions on gun ownership is apparently a different matter entirely. 2008 may be instructive that votes are more dangerous than guns.
I fear that we’re quickly closing in on the “democracy” that the founding fathers feared…
August 11th, 2010 at 12:53 pm
“Ideas are more dangerous than Guns. We don’t let our enemies have guns, why would we let them have ideas?”
-Joseph Stalin
I think they don’t have a poll tax because they know you can’t change very much with a single vote. It’s not like they can’t stuff the ballot box with all of your dead relatives anyways. That’s the Chicago way!