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**SlowLoris** · (This post was last modified: 10-22-2012 01:54 AM by SlowLoris.)

October 17, 2012
If You Own a Gun You Must be Violent!

by Dave Dolbee

Previously, I have accused Illinois lawmakers of being mentally deficient, but I did not mean it as a personal challenge to prove me right!

Whether or not you are violent, if you live in Cook County, Illinois (Chicago) you are set to be the subject of a new “Violence Tax.” Cook County Board President, Toni Preckwinkle, recently floated the proposal for a Violence Tax. This new and unwarranted tax seeks to target the sale of guns and ammunition sold in the City of Chicago and its suburbs.

Preckwinkle refuses to deliver any details other than guns and ammo would cost more. The reported purpose of the tax is to help plug the county’s $115 million budget gap.

Preckwinkle’s chief of staff, Kurt Summers, reportedly stated that the aim of the proposal was to curb the number of guns in circulation citing a report from last summer, which stated nearly one-third of the guns recovered on the Chicago’s streets were purchased in suburban gun shops.

Cook County Illinois is seeking to plug its $115 million budget gap by applying a “Violence Tax” on legal purchases of firearms and ammunition.

However, Summers failed to address how Cook County’s lawmakers believe this would prevent criminals (who likely did not purchase the guns legally in the first place) from committing crimes by implementing another new tax. Won’t fiscally-conscious criminals simply drive to a neighboring county—if a few extra dollars even meant that much to them? Every day, we are bombarded with stories of the Mexican’s cartels shipping drugs across the border. I mean seriously, if the gangs have the resources to move drugs thousands of miles…

When are lawmakers going to wakeup? Do they honestly believe Cook County’s criminal element will take the time to stop and think about the ramifications of committing a crime, IF the replacement gun is going to cost more? Perhaps they believe a tax on bullets will financially cripple Chicago’s gangs and thereby reduce the number of drive-by shootings?

The motives being reported are in fact half true. The lawmakers in Cook County have run its finances into the ground. As a result, it is looking to make up the difference on the back’s of law-abiding gun owners. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has conducted studies of many of the gun-control laws in place including waiting periods, registration and bans on particular firearms. The results have shown that believing gun control laws have reduced violent crime is simply a myth, so why would a tax have an effect?

I offer the following question: If a respected Federal agency such as the CDC—which has never been accused of being an advocate for the Second Amendment—can come to the conclusion that more restrictive gun laws do not reduce gun violence, what in the hell makes Cook County think a tax will?

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**bbkingdom**

Crook County Illinois?

That should bring in some revenue.

:)

~~I┴∀NIW∩˥˥Iʞ~~

iz i haz to be violent cuz i haz gunz

**Foodnipple** · **Foodnipple** ♋ User ID: 119448 10-21-2012 04:38 PM **Posts: 4,846**

Taxing them out of existence

**Celestialguardian**

**Sunny**

So if I pay my violence tax then I should legally be able to get away with violence.

**Zardoz**

Sunny Wrote:

So if I pay my violence tax then I should legally be able to get away with violence.

Makes sense!

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 114639 10-21-2012 07:19 PM

Don't own a gun, never needed to. Last time anyone used violence against me was over 20yrs ago, and even then I was able to put all three in hospital because I know unarmed combat. You're more likely to be shot by your own gun than by anyone elses strangely enough.

**SlowLoris**

LoP Guest Wrote:

Don't own a gun, never needed to. Last time anyone used violence against me was over 20yrs ago, and even then I was able to put all three in hospital because I know unarmed combat. You're more likely to be shot by your own gun than by anyone elses strangely enough.

Well, when someone invents an unarmed combat technique that I can use against a coyote or bob cat, I just might reconsider. But in the mean time I will keep my long guns that can reach out and touch the predators. And while I'm at it I really think I'll keep my hand gun because getting up close and personal with a home invader is not something I care to do, especially being an old fart and all.

**JF Priest** · **JF Priest** Subscriber User ID: 47416 10-22-2012 01:52 AM **Posts: 23,830**

“Violence Tax” Lmao

**SubarcticBeef**

LoP Guest Wrote:

Don't own a gun, never needed to. Last time anyone used violence against me was over 20yrs ago, and even then I was able to put all three in hospital because I know unarmed combat. You're more likely to be shot by your own gun than by anyone elses strangely enough.

I'm well trained in several forms of hand to hand combat, but I'd never show up with a knife at a gunfight. Dumb ass.

**cookies**

guns are bad

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 37860 10-22-2012 01:59 AM

LoP Guest Wrote:

Don't own a gun, never needed to. Last time anyone used violence against me was over 20yrs ago, and even then I was able to put all three in hospital because I know unarmed combat. You're more likely to be shot by your own gun than by anyone elses strangely enough.

Armed combat is more efficient.

**SlowLoris**

This piece of foolish legislation throws a light once again on the stupidity of the lawmakers. Whether they are local, state or federal they are all stupid brainless twerps. Where do we find these people?

Quote:Preckwinkle’s chief of staff, Kurt Summers, reportedly stated that the aim of the proposal was to curb the number of guns in circulation citing a report from last summer, which stated nearly one-third of the guns recovered on the Chicago’s streets were purchased in suburban gun shops.

And pray tell where did the other two thirds come from? Shouldn't they try to curb that first? No that would take work. S977

***WM*** · ***WM*** Use the Fluff User ID: 122383 10-22-2012 02:04 AM **Posts: 3,219**

It is on days like these that politicians provide opportunities, for the those who just love it when they come up with these types of laws:)

*considers opening a gun and ammo shops on the outskirts of cook county*

It's not like they will set up checkpoints to ensure your ammo did not come from some gun shop or Walmart outside of cook county :p Even if they do can it really be considered contraband ;) -- o.O black market ammo Hiding

I remember buying tax free smokes at the Indian reservation, until their prices weren't much better than the local liquor store.