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Florida governor candidate Chris King wants to create a bullet tax to pay for gun violence preventio
Florida governor candidate Chris King wants to create a bullet tax to pay for gun violence preventionChris King, a Winter Park businessman and Democratic gubernatorial candidate for Florida, has an interesting idea.
King wants to implement a tax on weapons and bullets to pay for gun violence intervention and prevention programs, school safety measure and studies of gun violence.
Going further, King also wants to use the tax to pay for medical costs for victims of mass shooting.
“I’m proposing the ‘Every Kid Fund’ for gun violence prevention because every child deserves to grow up in a state free from the scourge of gun violence, whether it’s everyday gun violence of mass shootings,” King said in a news release.
Read more: https://www.orlandoweekly.com/Blogs/archives/2018/06/01/florida-governor-candidate-chris-king-wants-to-create-a-bullet-tax-to-pay-for-gun-violence-prevention
