The South Carolina legislators who passed the measure call it the “Second Amendment Sales Tax Holiday.” Thinking people would call it pandering of the worst kind.

Just today The Greenville News reported that, according to the FBI, South Carolina is the most violent state in the nation.

Instead of a tax break for food, or gas, or products to help protect the environment, we get a tax break on guns. Seriously. Beginning at midnight Nov. 28 and ending at midnight Nov. 30, South Carolinians can save money while they beef up their arsenals.

It’s not like they needed the incentive. There has been a run on guns since Barack Obama was elected president, amid fears that he and a Democrat-controlled Congress will pass stricter gun laws.

Apparently, you can take the cowboy out of the White House, but not out of the American household.

Becci Robbins