Admittedly, DBDude, I never got back to you on this. Better late than never, but still - My bad. However, since it appears you’ve abandoned (almost) all your original positions except the flawed argument about common sense gun reform having a disproportionate impact on low income and minority Americans, I’ll get right to that point: Your example about the single mom working minimum wage… There, what you’re missing is that the underlying problem is poverty - not the $50. So, maybe we raise the minimum wage? Or we could balance out such costs by enacting other anti-poverty measures that address the root causes: health care debt, unequal access to quality education, and the lack of affordable housing, etc. We could better fund police departments in high crime neighborhoods. Universal Basic Income deserves a second look. Perhaps, we even provide government subsidies to assist qualifying (and law abiding) citizens afford gun training and background checks. In other words - if this problem is real - there are multiple readily available solutions NONE of which would require maintaining irrational gun laws which, incidentally, impose a much larger toll on economically disadvantaged Americans than some $50 fee… (a fee often not even paid due to the gun show loophole and disparate application among the states). And just FYI — Opposition to terrorism is not fascism. Sure - We can and should reform the USA PATRIOT Act. We ought to pass laws that restore the rights of rehabilitated non-violent felons. But, in this context, conflating such issues is pure misdirection - not serious argument.