If you were to put a tax on a bottle of vodka that put vodka out of reach for anyone outside of the top wage earners, you’d create a de facto state similar to Prohibition, and history tells us how well that turns out.

And yet booze is easy to get and still reasonably affordable. Who wants to jack up the taxes so that a bottle of vodka is out of reach? Nobody. But the taxes pay us back for some of the damage alcohol does.

And sans a Constitutional Amendment, cities with strict gun laws will always be a short drive from a place with lax gun laws.

compulsory car insurance is required in every state. Nobody wants to finance your irresponsibility. The same is true of guns.