Your point is well taken but you know as well as I that is the only way it will happen. If ever. Plus the politicians and gooberment will find it more apealing to push.Why the call to tax it? Why must everything that some people dislike or don't use be subjected to over regulation and taxation? Should ammo be subject to taxation? Targets? How about twinkies or a soda? Maybe we could add more taxes to alcohol (somewhere in the neighbourhood of 50% of the cost of a bottle of bourbon is taxes). I say legalise it an get government out of the equation entirely. Don't use it as another source of revenue for an entity that is already cancerous in its growth and presence.