An interesting piece from Time Magazine suggests three methods the government could use, at both the state and federal levels, to fight gun violence: institute a tax on bullets, require gun liability insurance, and voluntary government gun buy-back programs.
None of the three ideas are new, and the author outlines the three methods, their roots and the political realities of all three measures.
The bullet tax, the author writes, was first conceived almost two decades ago by a U.S. Senator from New York, who proposed upping bullet taxes by 10,000 percent. The gun liability insurance mandate, he writes, could be comparable to the government regulation that all drivers obtain liability insurance. And the voluntary government buy-back program idea has been tried in many cities across the country, including in Los Angeles, New York City, Detroit and San Francisco, “with varying degrees of success.”
Check out the piece for more details. It’s an interesting one.
It’s obvious there are complete idiots writing for Times Magazine.
Three sound ideas that merit further investigation and, perhaps, future implementation.
what a lousey idea,..do you want to tax the bullets purchased,..or the ones fired?
Th for the ideas put the cost on honest citizens for the evil acts of mentally disturbed individuals and criminals. This will do noting to prevent violence. We need to look for real ways to prevent these senseless acts not try to hurt the millions of hunters, target shooters and people who realize that the real first responders in are the people who are attacked the police are minutes away at best.
This is Brilliant!!!
I’m sure that another $1 on the cost of a box of bullets will stop someone from shooting innocents when the following LAWS had no effect…
1) THOU SHALT NOT KILL
2) THOU SHALT NOT STEAL
Murder
Attempted Murder
Felony Menacing
Prohibited Dischard of Weapon
Carrying a weapon on School Property
and oh yes.. lets ban the “Assault Rifle”..
However, the rifle that he used was ALREADY Banned in Connecticut.
Can we be so ignorant to think that someone hell bent on doing such unthinkable carnage will be deterred by having to pay an extra $1???????????? or worse another set of words written on paper?? They were already hell bent on violating some of the biggest laws on our books..