Why The Gun Lobby Is Terrified Of California - from Mother Jones - *5-cent tax on each bullet*

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166. It would appear

It would appear that most of these proposals are less about actually reducing the rate of violent crime and more about punishing law abiding gun owners. Prohibition rarely succeeds, if the expense of a legal product gets too high, then obtaining the prohibited item illicitly will becomes more appealing to the majority of those who seek the product. Just as the Volstead act did and current drug policies do little to curb availability, neither will monetary prohibition directed towards ammunition accomplish much. All it will do is create new avenues for criminals to exploit consumer demand and force much of the commerce of the commodity into the black market.

Some of the more vocal gun grabbers remind me of Carrie Nation and the W.C.T.U., with the zealotry with which they approach this issue.

There are some reasonable, common sense gun and crime control measures that could find a broad base of support, that could actually help reduce the level of gun violence in this country but instead, zealots on the margins will push an overly restrictive agenda to the point that eliminates the possibility of compromise and the end result is likely to be that nothing substantive will occur.