Chicago's Brilliant Solution to Its Violence Problem: Tax It (Lincoln: safest neighborhood, taxes)

[DoubleMakers]

Originally Posted by Vlajos

You can still buy guns and ammo, you just pay more for it.

There were two amendments to the constitution regarding booze. Booze is a constitutional right.

Surely you're smart enough to know that the second of those ammendments repealed the first. In essence saying there never should have been an ammendment in the place.

Again, you're taxing law abiding citizens, the criminals will still find away to get their weapons. You're not solving the real problem. As long as voters in this city/state remain apathetic to being nickled and dimed to death, I'm afraid we're just in for more of the same.

[Vlajos]

Originally Posted by DoubleMakers

Surely you're smart enough to know that the second of those ammendments repealed the first. In essence saying there never should have been an ammendment in the place.

Again, you're taxing law abiding citizens, the criminals will still find away to get their weapons. You're not solving the real problem. As long as voters in this city/state remain apathetic to being nickled and dimed to death, I'm afraid we're just in for more of the same.

Yes, I understand that. Booze is a constitutional right. You claimed otherwise.

Law abiding citizens are taxed everyday on all sorts of things by the Feds, States and local governments.

[DoubleMakers]

Originally Posted by Vlajos

Yes, I understand that. Booze is a constitutional right. You claimed otherwise.

Law abiding citizens are taxed everyday on all sorts of things by the Feds, States and local governments.

Au contraire. Dry county - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Although the 21st Amendment repealed the prohibition of alcohol on the federal level, that Amendment does allow for its prohibition by state or local laws. Some states after the repeal passed local option laws granting counties and municipalities, either by popular vote or ordinance, the ability to decide for themselves whether to allow alcohol.

There are no state or local laws which can prohibit me from owning a gun...in any state or city (finally).

You sure do like to change the subject...and then debate on that subject.

[PurpleRain_1]

As long as Chicago (and most of Illinois for that matter) continues to declare themselves as an illegal alien sanctuary, the problem will continue to grow. Rahm Emanuel like Daley before him is stuck on stupid.

DEA Boss: Mexican Drug Cartels Are So Deeply Embedded in Chicago, We Have to Operate Like We‘re ’On the Border’

The city may be nearly 2,000 miles from Mexico, but the country’s drug cartels are so deeply embedded in Chicago that local and federal law enforcement are forced to operate as if they are “on the border,” according to Jack Riley, special agent in charge for the Chicago Field Division of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).

DEA Agent Jack Riley: Mexican Drug Cartels Are Embedded in Chicago | TheBlaze.com

Many communities that became 'sanctuaries' in the 1980s have since amended or rescinded such orders in the wake of escalating welfare and crime-related costs. In 1992 the non-partisan Chicago Crime Commission asked Mayor Richard M. Daley to 'clarify' the 'sanctuary' executive order by 'specifically authorizing the [police] to cooperate with INS investigations of street gangs and other criminal activity by illegal aliens.'

http://www.thesocialcontract.com/art...icle_433.shtml

[Andy]

Originally Posted by Chi-town Native

If anything this supports getting rid of guns altogether - when was the last time a little kid got killed by a "drive by knifing" gone wrong?

No, it would still be drive-by shootings. Criminals don't obey the laws. Gun control laws that punish the law abiding are regressive and stupid.

[Chi-town Native]

Originally Posted by Andy

No, it would still be drive-by shootings. Criminals don't obey the laws. Gun control laws that punish the law abiding are regressive and stupid.

Why can't you follow you an argument properly?

[gomexico]

Originally Posted by uggabugga

silly liberals.

I think the proposal by the Cook County Board, which is not the "City of Chicago", is a good one and don't doubt that an overwhelming majority of county residents favor it. Don't like it? Move elsewhere with your weapons of destruction.

[DoubleMakers]

Originally Posted by gomexico

I think the proposal by the Cook County Board, which is not the "City of Chicago", is a good one and don't doubt that an overwhelming majority of county residents favor it. Don't like it? Move elsewhere with your weapons of destruction.

Pathetic that people favor this tax. You remind me of
this guy.

[Chi-town Native]

Originally Posted by DoubleMakers

Pathetic that people favor this tax. You remind me of
this guy.

There some reason you don't have the cajones to actually display where *you* live?

I'll bet a kidney we can find a few dozen laws and regulations that redefine stupid in your neck of the woods, and with very little trouble.

[Chicago South Sider]

Originally Posted by gomexico

I think the proposal by the Cook County Board, which is not the "City of Chicago", is a good one and don't doubt that an overwhelming majority of county residents favor it. Don't like it? Move elsewhere with your weapons of destruction.

I think many people are doing just that. Didn't Cook County lose residents last census? Look for that trend to continue.