California communist-socialist Democrats are starting off 2019 like they did 2018. They are planning a “gun tax” in California, which already has some of the most restrictive legal gun ownership laws in the country. Yea, a gun tax will sure show them!

First, that’s a lie. Gun violence doesn’t have its own lobbyists, but Levine is trying to align law-abiding gun owners who don’t want their rights trampled with the criminals who are already barred from owning guns in the vast majority of cases.

Second, taxing semi-automatics simply makes it more difficult for law-abiding, low-income citizens to afford firearms to defend themselves with. These are the same folks who often are forced to live in high-crime neighborhoods. Mr. Levine probably doesn’t understand that, considering his home of Marin County has the fifth highest average income per capita. In his world, people can afford home security and even taxes on firearms if they want them.

But not everyone lives in that kind of lifestyle. They can’t outsource our safety like Marin County can.

In other words, Mr. Levine is proposing a bill that will add yet another difficulty for low-income, law-abiding citizens to obtain firearms despite representing absolutely no threat at all.

Meanwhile, despite (or because of) all of the gun laws created by people like Levine, California still has a lot of violent crime. It’s almost like gun laws simply don’t work.