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Message: <blockquote data-quote="R. Johnson" data-source="post: 2111685" data-attributes="member: 10606">So in Colorado they want a gun purchaser to pay the fee for the background check at the time of purchase, and in New York they want gun owners to carry one million dollars in liability coverage. It kind of makes me think of voter ID laws. One of the left's arguments against requiring voter ID at the polls is that a state issued ID typically costs a fee, and it is discriminatory towards people who are poor and can not afford an ID.How is requiring expensive insurance, or additional fees for a service our tax dollars have already paid for not the same thing? It makes it more costly to exercise a divine right, and for people with fixed incomes these costs may make the exercise of that right impossible. The hypocrisy kills me. Now I know, guns are usually pretty expensive, so if you have the money to spend on one, you've probably got the extra cash to pay the fee. That's not the point. You are being forced to pay money to someone else for the "privilege" of exercising your Constitutional rights, and that is just like a poll tax, and it is unconstitutional. It just drives me nuts.</blockquote>