Gun and ammunition tax passed by Tacoma City Council | Tacoma News Tribune
https://www.thenewstribune.com...rticle237251479.html For crying out loud. Unbelievable

Reducing gun violence begins in the home. At an early age. In a two-parent household, preferably.

It'll raise $30,000 a year? $30,000 will barely pay for two weeks of one individual's in-patient mental health treatment in a secure hospital setting.

And when you get down to it, what kind of a person thinks it is OK to indiscriminately shoot into a crowd of people because they didn't get invited to the party? Dealing with rejection through violence ... "teens" acting out, then coddled by a caring justice system

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The tax goes into effect on July 1, 2020 and is expected to raise $30,000 annually to fund violence prevention programs.

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Except it won't....
People won't pay it for long. They will buy outside of the area. Retailers in Tacoma will close or move.

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Originally posted by chellim1:

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The tax goes into effect on July 1, 2020 and is expected to raise $30,000 annually to fund violence prevention programs.

Read more here: https://www.thenewstribune.com...9.html#storylink=cpy

Except it won't....
People won't pay it for long. They will buy outside of the area. Retailers in Tacoma will close or move.

Everyone knows it won't. That little bit of money will be squandered even before it's collected.

The best violence prevention program is execution. Next best is incarceration.

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Originally posted by chellim1:

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The tax goes into effect on July 1, 2020 and is expected to raise $30,000 annually to fund violence prevention programs.

Read more here: https://www.thenewstribune.com...9.html#storylink=cpy

Except it won't....
People won't pay it for long. They will buy outside of the area. Retailers in Tacoma will close or move.

There is one retailer in Tacoma that sells 90% of the ammo sold. Surplus Ammo and Arms. Most all of their ammo sold, is sold online.
This is also the local retailer that after Sandy Hook, doubled (or more) ammo prices. Stopped buying from them when they started price gouging.

30k. So who in Tacoma city government has a relative that needed a job created for them?

They held an open comment session on this about a month ago and had some many people show up that they immediately voted to table it until after the election, when it was expected they would wait until there wasn’t such an awkward scene in the room to bring it back up and vote it through. They’re doing exactly what some of the folks who went to the comment session said they would do.

Tacoma is the shitty worst part of Washington. That city has far worse problems to explore.

Like the drug problem.

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Tacoma is the shitty worst part of Washington. That city has far worse problems to explore.

Like the drug problem.

Oooh yeah. Big time. I’ve got stories that people don’t believe, but you’d have to be on the kinda drugs those people are strung out on to make the stuff up. There’s two businesses within a few blocks of the Tacoma dome that probably will have to relocate or go under. One was mentioned already, SAA. I don’t see how Bull’s Eye can simply relocate an indoor range. That same few blocks is also loaded with junkies and all the joy they bring. What would better serve that community? Running off two businesses that keep a flow of LEO’s and legally armed citizens coming through downtown, or running off the junkies and cleaning up the shit and needles all over the place? Hmmmmm....

Tacoma City Council 8-0 vote. Aero Precision has 400 plus employees. Bass Pro has a relatively new store. Here is the quote that will affect everyone here. “It gives a signal to other municipalities that it’s something that they can do,” Ushka said.
My in laws got so pissed off with local government they sold their house and fled to Ohio.

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Aero Precision has 400 plus employees.

They opened a manufacturing plant here in NH.

Looks like a carbon copy of the Seattle gun/ammo tax ordinance. If memory serves me, Seattle hasn't seen anywhere near the benefits from their law that were touted before it went into effect. Not surprising these yahoos would expect a different result. I mean, that is the definition of insanity, right?

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Originally posted by 64dodge:
Looks like a carbon copy of the Seattle gun/ammo tax ordinance. If memory serves me, Seattle hasn't seen anywhere near the benefits from their law that were touted before it went into effect. Not surprising these yahoos would expect a different result. I mean, that is the definition of insanity, right?

The goal is to close down gun shops. Period.

This is just the indirect, cancerous tool they’re using...because they can.

WA has become vastly worse for law-abiding gun owners in the last 5-6 years.

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Originally posted by 64dodge:
Looks like a carbon copy of the Seattle gun/ammo tax ordinance. If memory serves me, Seattle hasn't seen anywhere near the benefits from their law that were touted before it went into effect. Not surprising these yahoos would expect a different result. I mean, that is the definition of insanity, right?

Thats right. More business for SG Ammo and other fine online sellers. (full disclosure I buy 90% of my ammo from SGA by the case) Tax a commodity and folks will buy it elsewhere.

An august array of groups spoke in support i.e. the usual crowd. This one line, quoted from the article displays the depth of thought that went into the decision.

”“We have to do something,” said one speaker.”

Astounding but not surprising.

Taxing access to rights.........let's try a poll tax.

Washington is full of progressives and foreigners. Both are happy to throw our rights away if the media tells them to. This is coming to your state next.

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Originally posted by Voshterkoff:
Washington is full of progressives and foreigners. Both are happy to throw our rights away if the media tells them to. This is coming to your state next.

Do not sell short the opinions of eastern WA folks--the majority of the state, geographically speaking. You may just as well have the same opinion of Texas residents, if you only form your macro opinions from folks from Austin. Or, why not judge folks from Georgia, based only on your perception of the electorate from Atlanta? Things are more complicated than you think. You might consider not trashing an entire state with sparse data from your personal perceptions gleaned from the "news" headlines "du jour".. If you do, you are a victim of the media circus. Do your homework.

Have you ever driven through Washington or Oregon? Do you know how much of the US food supply comes from these states? Do you know how many Trump signs you will see if you drive through 90 % of the geography? Why do you judge our states from news from a couple of cities? Do you judge Texas from news headlines from Austin?

OK Rant over.

Eastern conservatives are just like western conservatives, drowned out by the opposition. The only difference is that we have salmon and they have walleye.