FL Democrat calls for $2 Excise Tax per Bullet after Florida School Shooting. Why this is so very, very wrong.
The blame the bullet game has begun. Mourning families are still trying to understand what happened and Democrats are in their blame the gun and not the shooter mode.
Rather than focus on Nikolas Cruz who has been identified as the killer of 17 at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Broward County, FL Kristine Rosen Gonzalez, a Democrat candidate for Congress, sent out a press release on February 15th, 2018 stating:
Kristen Rosen Gonzalez, candidate for the Democratic nomination in Florida’s 27th Congressional District, today issued a call for Congress to enact a $2 per bullet excise tax with the funds to be used to retrofit schools and to help with the treatment of victims of gun violence. Currently, about 12 billion bullets are sold in the U.S. annually.
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“We fund our national highways through excise taxes on gas and diesel fuel”, Rosen Gonzalez said, “so highway users are the one who pay for that system. Doing the same with gun owners is just as fair.” [Emphasis added]
What Gonzalez should be focused on is that Nikolas Cruz was “expelled from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School for unspecified disciplinary reasons.” Cruz was adopted by Lynda Cruz, a widow. Postings under the name Nikolas Cruz included threatening comments under videos on YouTube and other sites, including “I whana shoot people with my AR-15” (sic), “I wanna die Fighting killing s**t ton of people” and “I am going to kill law enforcement one day they go after the good people.”
CNN is reporting in an article w/video titled “FBI was warned about alleged shooter nearly 5 months ago, tipster says” the following:
The FBI was warned in September about a possible school shooting threat from a YouTube user with the same name as the suspect in Wednesday’s campus massacre in Parkland, Florida, according to a video blogger.
Ben Bennight, the 36-year-old YouTube video blogger from Mississippi, noticed in September an alarming comment on a video he’d posted. He told CNN he immediately contacted the FBI.
“Im [sic] going to be a professional school shooter,” read the comment, left by a user with the name Nikolas Cruz, the same name of the suspected shooter who opened fire at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Wednesday, killing at least 17 people.
It was one of at least two alleged threat reports about the suspected shooter that the FBI received, according to a law enforcement official. In both cases, the FBI did not share the information with local law enforcement, the official said.
Perhaps Democrats in general and Rosen Gonzalez, in particular, should focus on why the FBI failed to take heed of the warning given to them. Maybe we need more federal agents to deal with these social media threats?
A thinly disguised attempt to circumvent the 2nd Amendment, pure and simple.
Mikey,
Thanks for reading and commenting.
Not so thinly disguised.
The focus needs to be on the crazies, not the guns or bullets. Only honest people obey most laws, criminals and the insane ignore them. I am sick an tired of seeing all the focus on the wrong things. I do not own a hand gun or assault rifle, but I know how to use them.
The suggested tax is 6% it’s the same amount on all other taxable items.
For Gods sake
Sher,
Thanks for reading and commenting. The average price of a 5.56 bullet is 21 cents. Two dollars a bullet would be a 1000% increase.