Kay-Rants Guns

 

 

So I posted this on FB on the 29th, after Gilroy. Since then there have been 6 shootings resulting in deaths, so many deaths. This needs to stop.

Yesterday there was yet another shooting. Yet another white man who decided being angry was a good enough reason to kill other people.

All over the world there are people who are angry, and may even commit violence, but only in the United States do we get the numbers of victims that are stacking up because only in the United States do we consider gun makers profit more important than people's lives.

I know that our proud state has better gun laws than most, and it would a legitimate step that we could celebrate to get those spread to the rest of the country.

I'm proposing a new step. I want to see a 1 cent tax per 10,000 rounds of ammunition. I'm specifically looking for it to start at a minuscule level. This is to increase by 1 cent for every shooting that results in a death. When (and sadly I don't anticipate anything other than when) this tax gets to more than 10 cents per 10,000 rounds I want those funds to pay for, and require a sign at every location that sells ammunition that states "Your ammunition price is increased by $X.XX because of the deadly shootings." This sign is to as big at least as big as the biggest sign related to gun or ammunition sales, and be updated no less frequently than once a month. Should there be revenue beyond the cost of the signs that can go to whatever will get this passed. I grew up before Columbine. So I got to miss the active shooter drills, but today I have an 8 year old. Active shooter drills are so normal to her that she talks cheerfully about what room she prefers to be in for the drill based on where it's more fun to hide. She's been lucky. So far it's only ever been a drill. The little boy who died in the Gilroy shooting looked like some of her classmates did a couple of years ago. We need to stop this carnage.

For a shooting tally https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/reports/mass-shooting?fbclid=IwAR2axkKCM5InW_YcQPGKISUtyCWhFwu1p2vpGvmGVvT8LECuxu3LFuudSuU