Illinois county considers 'violence tax' on guns and ammo

[OldCannon]

Elected politicians in Illinois can concealed carry.

Anyone who is wearing clothes can carry a concealed weapon.

Do you mean legally?

Yes. I now see the error of my ways

[seamusTX]

When I lived in Chicago law enforcement officials could and did hand out "deputy sheriff" or "reserve officer" credentials like Halloween candy, which was effectively an unofficial CHL.

After quite a few of these goofballs got in trouble, including drunk-driving crashes, shooting up bars, shooting at their estranged ex-spouses and former in-laws, trying to arrest people in road-rage incidents, and other raucous good fun, the legislature clamped down on that in the 1980s.

I don't know what they do now. I don't much care unless it is entertaining or an educational bad example.

- Jim

[Oldgringo]

When I lived in Chicago law enforcement officials could and did hand out "deputy sheriff" or "reserve officer" credentials like Halloween candy, which was effectively an unofficial CHL.

After quite a few of these goofballs got in trouble, including drunk-driving crashes, shooting up bars, shooting at their estranged ex-spouses and former in-laws, trying to arrest people in road-rage incidents, and other raucous good fun, the legislature clamped down on that in the 1980s.

I don't know what they do now. I don't much care unless it is entertaining or an educational bad example.

- Jim

All of Illinois should not be judged by the shenanigans of Chicago and Cook County. Unfortunately, all of Illinois is governed by Chicago and Cook County.

It's kinda' like New York and California and Nevada, etc. in that the heavily populated gangster ridden cities dictate to the rest of the state. Fortunately for us, there is more of Texas than there is of Austin.

[MikeStone]

An update on an older topic:

http://t.news.msn.com/us/chicagos-cook- ... s-gun-levy

Chicago (Cook county) is dropping the ammo tax but planning to keep the gun tax. That way all the bad guys buying guns at retail locations will have to pay a tax on the legally purchased guns they plan to use for violence...

[Kythas]

I love this quote in the following article:

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/chicagos-cook- ... 22419.html

"It is very important to us to tax guns because we know that guns are the sources of the incredible violence we have in our neighborhoods," Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle told a news conference.

Yeah. Because we all know the guns walk out of houses on their own and shoot people at random. It's how guns have fun.

Idiots.

[RPB]

If they'd just collect the sales tax on illegal drug sales, they could buy new equipment for the Police Dept.
Are criminals not reporting the sales like they should?

[chasfm11]

She said 29 percent of the guns used in crimes in Chicago were purchased legally in suburban Cook County.

What a great idea! Let's address less than 1/3 of the problem and call it a solution. I wonder what portion of the legally purchased firearms are obtained by the BGs by burglarizing their rightful owners? I know that we have a responsibility as law abiding citizens to secure our guns but focusing on that and leaving 2/3 of the gun use problem hanging is just the Chicago way.

[HansonG]

Life really does imitate art at times. For instance, more than ten years ago, comic Chris Rock proposed in a stand-up program that if bullets were made unaffordable, there would be much fewer shootings. Cook Region, Illinois, seems to agree, which is why that county, which Chicago occupies, is suggesting a bullet tax that would help defray the costs of crime. Get a personal finance for your bullets right now before they get expensive.

[EconDoc]

Politicians, and especially those of Chicago, need to be limited to two terms: One term in office immediately followed by one term in prison.