On Friday and Saturday this week, South Carolinians will be able to purchase firearms sans any state or local sales taxes. It’s a nice way to celebrate part of the Bill of Rights and also kick off hunting season. Or just get the holiday shopping season going.

Well. WELL! The NY Daily Fishwrapper News doesn’t approve:

The great state of South Carolina is putting its own sick twist on Black Friday with a tax holiday on firearm purchases.

Not cars.

Not clothes.

Certainly not books.

Just guns.

For the 48 hours following Thanksgiving, gun buyers will enjoy a break of up to 9% in state and local taxes.

Firearms traffickers are not expected to pass the savings on to New York criminals, but what is called “the extrava-gun-za” and “Second Amendment Weekend” is sure to help South Carolina stay among the top five states that provide 85% of the illegal handguns recovered in New York City.

Boo-hoo, Bloomberg, maybe if you allowed NYC citizens the right to protect themselves you wouldn’t have a city crawling with gangs and criminals. Once those were eliminated, the market for illegally smuggled guns for thugs would be eliminated.

By the way, I want you to hold your mouse over the link to the newspaper story and note the contempt that NY newspaper elitists have for Southerners. If you look at the status bar at the bottom of your browser, you’ll see that part of the URL says, “dixie-dopes.”

Is it time for a new Civil War, yet?