Gun control follies

[WillBrink]

Per usual, gun control effects law abiding, has nadda impact on crime.

Seattle gun tax failure? Firearm sales plummet, violence spikes after law passes

When the City of Seattle passed a tax on all sales of guns and ammunition, the measure was hailed as a way to defray the rising costs of gun violence.

But since the tax took effect, those costs have only risen as gun violence in the city has surged. And the tax has apparently brought in much less than city leaders projected it would.

“How much data do you need?” asked Dave Workman, senior editor of TheGunMag.com and member of the Second Amendment Foundation. “The data says the law has failed to prevent what they promised it would prevent.”

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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/06/15/seattle-gun-tax-failure-firearm-sales-plummet-violence-spikes-after-law-passes.html

[FromMyColdDeadHand]

I'm starting to see, what seems like, more and more gun store robberies. UBCs do nothing when the guns are stolen. That's what will happen if UBCs go nationwide.

[yoni]

I know Seattle very well, and I know pretty much the whole firearms training unit there. I worked with the Sgt. that just retired from that unit when he was a deputy before joining SPD.

I am going to say the big jump in crime has much more to do with the obama so called justice department taking over SPD. On view incidents by SPD officers has fallen to almost zero. When the police are afraid to do their job, guess what they don't get involved. They find places to hide and just try to get through their shift.

So Seattle puts in stupid taxes, I could drive 7 minutes to the SPD range and buy what ever I wanted with no Seattle taxes. 5 more minutes and I was in an other city with no added taxes that hd even bigger gun stores than the SPD range. Drive east out of Seattle on I 90 and you just cross the lake and you got even more gun stores.

[Bulletdog]

I don't think the facts contained in this article are a surprise to anyone on this forum, or anyone with any common sense.

Our challenge is to spread this word to the masses. The news is going to tell everyone a bunch more lies to cover up these lies, and its up to people like us to educate our fellow Americans. I'll be linking this article to a bunch of people.

[_Stormin_]

So glad that I moved away from the city. I really used to love it there, but they have just fallen off the deep end.

[Grand58742]

Here's the thing about the Seattle (and Chicago as well) tax on firearms and ammo. In my opinion, It was never the intent to tax anything, but rather run the gun stores off from the city. The politicians proposed the tax, gun and sporting goods stores said they would move, tax was implemented, stores moved.

Politicians in both places counted that as a win.

It was never about taxes or making revenue. If it was, it would have been far more simple like a 2% up to $1,000 or flat tax on a box of ammo like Tennessee does. Nobody bats an eye at the Tennessee ammo tax these days. The Seattle measure was designed to drive out gun stores. And they succeeded.

[Moose-Knuckle]

The disarmament lobby care not about crime victims, crime stats, etc.

If they can't outright ban firearms then they will put up as many hurdles as they can, red tape, etc. to people getting them.

[docsherm]

This stands but we had to get rid of poll taxes.......... Really?

[citizensoldier16]

I feel like we're beating a dead horse here. I believe everyone here on this board knows gun control doesn't work, and we take it for granted that the liberals running our cities are clueless to this fact. It's not about guns, it's about control. Armed citizens standing up for our rights doesn't fit into their neo-socialistic view of the world, so they fight to ban guns because they do not want an armed opposition to their political goals.

As has been said many, many times before..."from my cold, dead hands!"