DeSantis Gunhide Question of the Day: Does the Majority of the US Favor Gun Rights?

By Dan Zimmerman

In yesterday’s post noting California sheriffs’ dislike for Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom’s latest gun control push, reader Sam I Am makes the argument in the comment section that any state can prevent the possession of any asset as long as they’re sufficiently artful in crafting their laws. As he writes, “If the majority of voters support state legislation to tax all assets at 100% of its value, that would be legal. The minority in opposition would either comply or move. There is no constitutional right to be free of taxation….”

We’re not attorneys and we didn’t stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night, but we’d guess the courts might step in at some point. Though just where the judicial branch might divine the line of demarcation between “reasonable” taxation and an infringement on an enumerated Constitutional right, is anyone’s guess.

The gist of his comment, though, has to do with the nature of representative democracy:

Point is, the voters of California voted in the legislators, and the legislators are pressing the interests of their majority voters. There is no obligation, anywhere that the majority not rule. Even the entire constitution is subject to majority rule; large majority, but majority.

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