White House weighs broad gun-control agenda in wake of Newtown shootings

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40. No, I'm talking about the lower class which 60 or 70% of Americans are.

You don't have to be destitute to be poor. Drive through some of these big city neighborhoods sometime. Old houses or duplexes in the city with old or cheap cars in the driveway belong to lower class people.

Middle class people are doctors, lawyers, other licensed professionals, successful business owners, and master artisans. People who sell their labor by the hour on someone else's schedule are lower class.

Fold-out sofa bed in parlor = lower class,
guest room = middle class,
guest house with servants = upper class.

You are talking about taxes on working people as a punishment because you know you can't simply confiscate guns that were lawful to own when acquired. So you want to issue an across the board fine for having them year after year until "voluntarily" surrendered. That's an ex post facto penalty and a bill of attainder.

To get rid of all of them Constitutionally, the Feds need to buy them from people at fair market value. Perhaps a tax on gun and ammo makers could finance it. The fact is you think gun ownership is immoral and you want to punish people for having them. That's not how the law works. And your attempt to make me look or feel guilty by trying to associate me with Norquist is pretty pathetic. I have always supported higher taxes on the rich, including their off-shore assets and trusts. I'd say "nice try," but it really isn't.