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Read more: The Racist Origin of the Second Amendment and the Rise of Black Gun Ownership
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Senator Marco Rubio does not want to infringe on the 2nd Amendment if gun proposals won’t prevent mass shootings. Good for him!If he and his fellow lawmakers can come up with a policy that prevents mass shootings, wonderful! But until then, focus on this: A mentally disturbed person wants to commit mass murder. In his hands he wants a weapon that can tear humans apart in...
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The total for 2017 was less than in 2016, when the tax raised about $104,000. The council established the tax to fund gun-violence research at Harborview Medical Center.
Seattle collected $93,000 from its gun-and-ammunition tax in 2017, down from about $104,000 collected in 2016, when the tax took effect.
Sellers paid the tax this past year on 1,929 firearms and about 1.1 million rounds of ammo, according to the Department of Finance and Administrative Services.
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ON February 28th, two weeks after a 19-year-old gunman killed 17 people in Parkland, Florida, President Donald Trump said “it doesn’t make sense” for teenagers to be allowed to buy a semi-automatic weapon when federal law bans handgun sales to people under 21. Roughly 80% of Americans agree with that sentiment and, on March 14th, a nationwide student walkout urged broader action to combat gun violence. But after a talking-to in the Oval Office from a National Rifle... 