If you restrict the rights of the manufacturers to sell certain weapons that directly affects your rights to use them, no?

If that’s your view, then I think the course you should be pursuing is trying to get the Second Amendment repealed or changed.

I’m no Paul Krugerman, but it seems to me that a higher capital gains tax would lead to a recalculation of the risk factor whereby people make investments (i.e. give money to people who want to use it to do things - open restaurants, build houses, etc.) and cause the economy to slow down considerably.

huffington post, so it wont be until 2020 at the earliest.

Somewhat less surprising than Deadspin losing a Twitter battle with Ted Cruz.

That’s about the difference in voters in California, and most of us don’t want one major city to decide everything. Stupid Constitution always gets in the way, doesnt it?

You don’t seem to understand how a Constitutional Republic works. In the United States, the President is not chosen democratically. This is a good thing.