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Article #177Re: CA AMMO TAX DEFEATED
From: Jason O'Rourke
Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2002 08:26
Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2002 08:26
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Joseph Lovell <subdjoe@sonic.net> wrote: ><sigh> I know that I'm not supposed to feed the trolls. me, too, but you left little choice. >If he were truely concerned about the uncompensated costs in ER/Trauma >centers he would push of a $1.00/gallon tax on gasoline and a couple of >hundred percent tax on bicycles (let's see, bicycles kill or injure >about 450,000 people in the US every year, CA has about 15% of the >population, so CA will have around 67k people, mostly children, killed >or injured every year by bicycles), as well and doing something about >all those uninsured people. Bicycles represent about 1000 of the 40,000 vehicle accidents per year. They are even less of a concern than gunshot victims (most of whom either were suicidal, or ones we could do without). Put down the crack pipe. -- Jason O'Rourke www.jor.com
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10a039,b944bbc8d6ba9cb8,start X-Google-Attributes: gid10a039,public X-Google-Thread: 104eff,b944bbc8d6ba9cb8,start X-Google-Attributes: gid104eff,public X-Google-Thread: 1044e7,b944bbc8d6ba9cb8,start X-Google-Attributes: gid1044e7,public X-Google-Thread: f59be,b944bbc8d6ba9cb8,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf59be,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-08-10 01:26:21 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!agate.berkeley.edu!agate!not-for-mail From: jor@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (Jason O'Rourke) Newsgroups: ca.firearms,ca.politics,talk.politics.guns,tx.guns Subject: Re: CA AMMO TAX DEFEATED Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2002 08:26:20 +0000 (UTC) Organization: Unknown Lines: 21 Message-ID: <aj2inc$1toq$1@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <WZe49.3561$QV2.1701@news.webusenet.com> <sQz49.2696$Dc3.75371711@newssvr21.news.prodigy.com> <3D531076.9F2549A0@sonic.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: soda.csua.berkeley.edu X-Trace: agate.berkeley.edu 1028967980 63258 128.32.112.233 (10 Aug 2002 08:26:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@agate.berkeley.edu NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 10 Aug 2002 08:26:20 +0000 (UTC) Originator: jor@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (Jason O'Rourke)