Seattle Taking Stupid Pills

OK, who put the stupid in Seattle’s water?

The city council in that den of dimwittery has unanimously approved a “gun violence” tax.

Under the new law, referred to as the “gun violence tax,” gun and ammo sales in the city are subject to a tax of $25 per firearm at sale and $0.05 for every round of ammunition at sale ($0.02 for every round of .22 caliber ammunition and smaller). Seattle’s City Budget Office estimates that the gun violence tax will raise between $300,000 and $500,000 per year: revenue raised under the tax will be earmarked for violence prevention.

Some gun rights opponents dolts claim that the tax will deter potential criminals from buying a gun which would be used to commit a violent crime.

Because criminals so often buy their guns legally? Because there are no firearms available on the black market or from a local drug dealer? Because they can’t borrow or steal a firearm? A $25 fee will somehow deter someone intent on committing violence from doing so?

A similar tax was adopted in Cook County, IL, and that apparently has not in any way prevented the carnage that’s going on over there! Do the city council members think that somehow their results will be different?

Chances are a special tax on constitutionally protected purchases will do nothing to stop crime.

What it MIGHT do is prevent those who purchase guns legally from doing so in Seattle. And once Seattle gun shops start losing business – and if they lose enough of it – they might want to consider relocating to an environment that’s more friendly to both the Second Amendment and the free market. And once they relocate, how much in tax revenue are you going to lose, morons?

Additionally, what it also will do is make effective tools of self defense more cost prohibitive to the very people who need said tools the most: the poor, who tend to live in not so nice neighborhoods, and for whom the $25 might mean either purchase of a firearm with which to defend their families from thugs who will more likely than not get their guns illegally anyway or food on the table, but not both.

Why do the elitist members of the Seattle City Council hate the poor?

Given the abject FAIL that was Cook County’s “violence reduction tax,” why do the members of the Seattle City Council insist on repeating the insanity?

Apparently the entire city council fell out of the stupid tree and hit every branch on the way down.

I can only hope that every gun shop owner picks up and leaves the city and that businesses outside the city benefit from the sales while Seattle hemorrhages tax revenue. If there’s any common sense or justice in this world, it will happen.

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11 thoughts on “Seattle Taking Stupid Pills”

  1. Keep a close watch on your mailbox for an important CCRKBA “survey” (and fundraising appeal) seeking to get Seattle to lower the fee to $12.50 for active duty and retired police and military. 😛

  2. “OK, who put the stupid in Seattle’s water?”

    My bet would be on the EPA.

    “And once they relocate, how much in tax revenue are you going to lose, morons?”

    Nah. This wasn’t about ‘revenue;’ that was a reed herring to distract the gullible. It’s a classic ‘sin tax.’ Driving the dealers out is the real cake. Any extra cash flow in the process is icing.

  3. Just another way to bring more dollars into their coffers and/or pocket books.

    City council must be looking at getting a pay raise.

    Bob
    III

  4. I only know of one gun store in Seattle, maybe there’s a handful. There will be a lawsuit and if this does stick; the city line is not far from a bunch of gun shops that will be the true beneficiaries of this penalty for buying a gun within the city limits.

    I also predict that every gun shop in the Seattle will move out of the city. I agree with Houston, people will just vote with their feet, it is the American way, it’s how this country got started.

  5. Why do the elitist members of the Seattle City Council hate the poor?

    I believe Margaret Thatcher put it best: “What the Honourable Member is saying is that he would rather the poor were poorer, provided the rich were less rich.” [emphasis in original]

    It’s not that they hate the poor, it’s just that they hate the rich (and legal guns) SO MUCH that they simply don’t care that their policies damage the poor — make them poorer and more vulnerable — provided the rich are less rich and there are fewer (or zero) affordable legal guns available. That the poor are that much worse off is just “collateral damage” — an “unfortunate side effect” of their Social Justice Warring.

    I mean, it’s not like low-information welfare voters are ever going to elect a conservative onto the city council, right?

  6. I don’t think they hate the poor. They simply do not give a rat’s ass about them. These jerks make a political calculation, “yeah, this sin tax would look good on my resume, at least with the idiot voters I deal with”. None of us matter to them. And we’re getting to the point that none of them matter to us either. Definitely, vote with our feet…

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