{"id":462,"date":"2002-04-18T11:00:29","date_gmt":"2002-04-18T18:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2002\/04\/ridiculous-bullet-tax\/"},"modified":"2002-04-18T11:00:29","modified_gmt":"2002-04-18T18:00:29","slug":"ridiculous-bullet-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2002\/04\/18\/ridiculous-bullet-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"Ridiculous bullet tax"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t— Don Perata, State Senator from Alameda, is one of California’s leading demagogues on gun control. The local paper, the Contra Costa Times,<\/a> well and truly slammed his sorry ass today:<\/p>\n

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WITH ALL THE significant and unsolved problems facing the California Legislature, one wonders why some members waste their time on senseless measures that solve nothing while needlessly irritating a segment of the population.
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The latest bit of nonsense comes from Sen. Don Perata, D-Oakland, the person who helped concoct the disastrous Coliseum deal with the Raiders. His most recent bit of mischief is a proposal to put a measure on the November ballot that seeks to impose a nickel-a-bullet tax on every round of ammunition sold in California.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

My friend Rod Wright, Calfornia’s leading champion of the Second Amendment, likes to point out that people living in gang neighborhoods don’t get the same kind of police protection that liberals in gated communities get, so guns are essential for their security. In light of that fact, Perata’s latest tax really is an attack on the working poor, just like the cigarette tax. And no, this isn’t a myth – I once walked precincts for an opponent of Sheila Kuehl’s in the western hills of LA, where the anti-gun liberals proudly sport signs saying their houses are protected by an armed response company.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

— Don Perata, State Senator from Alameda, is one of California’s leading demagogues on gun control. The local paper, the Contra Costa Times, well and truly slammed his sorry ass today: WITH ALL THE significant and unsolved problems facing the California Legislature, one wonders why some members waste their time on senseless measures that solve … Continue reading “Ridiculous bullet tax”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-7s","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}