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  Poor people don’t have anything to lose financially from lack of insurance. 
  Rich people can afford the insurance, or lose what they got if they don’t secure their firearms.
context: Using that logic - and I'm not saying it's bad mind you - why isn't the fact that guns need to be purchased and maintained in the first place a infringement of your 2nd amendment rights? 
  You could argue it's similar to a poll tax and it's certainly an expense that disproportionately affects the poor. >
  
  Because the government isn't imposing the cost of guns on people.  Guns just cost what they cost and if a new company comes out with a cheaper gun for poor people (high point cough) that is fine.  Or people can make their own guns, which some do for fairly cheap.  There is a huge difference between something having a natural cost just by the nature of being in demand and having an artificial cost imposed by a government. >
  
  But firearms are taxed in the U.S.A. so that seems like a far stretch. Also, it was found in the U.S.A. that the government has to provide a defence attorney for anyone who can't afford one. >
  
  The government has to provide a defense attorney because the burden of criminal charges is imposed by the government itself.  It does not have to provide an attorney for civil cases.  This analogy does not apply to guns because even if you can afford a gun you are never 'allowed' to use it against the government like you are an attorney.  You are only ever 'allowed' to use guns in 'civil cases' like defending from a home invader, hunting, etc.  You can't knowingly shoot police serving a warrant.  If we get to the point where using guns against the government is justified then the constitution is already completely out the window and inconsequential. >
  
  But this filter also applies to the guns themselves.  If you don't have disposable wealth you can't have a gun, so the poorest people won't be able to afford their second amendment.  The way around that is to make guns free?  
  Any gun check will increase the cost of purchase and ownership, one just has to make it pay off as a greater good.