This. The tax isn't raising money because people can drive for 10 minutes and avoid it. Since they don't have the authority to stop that circumvention, they could increase it a thousand-fold and not hit their "goal". With every % they increase it, gun owners are motivated to drive outside city limits. Doubling the tax will probably DECREASE the "revenue".

If I were to pay the violence tax, does that mean I get to be violent?

Think of it like a scumbag hunting permit...is there a catch limit?  Do I need to pay it for each thug that I bag, or is it a one time pay for the year?

What do you think?

The takeaway from that is that New Orleanians are disproportionately effective at killing what they shoot at.

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exactly what I thought

OR it is more a statement on emergency services.

researching the disparity in deaths versus wounds between cities would actually be interesting and useful.
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Used to live between Mill Creek and Everett. I always took two extra mags with me when we went to Seattle.

So not shooting people isn't enough to combat gun violence?  

You have to pay a tax because some other person shot someone.

I need to look at the above links, but here, while the number of shootings is climbing pretty quick, the murder rate is advancing at a slower pace.  I think our having a Level I trauma center, despite our small size, big city wise, helps with that, along with the fact that right before Katrina our EMS was one of the first in the country to move away from the "stabilize them, then once that is good and done, then let's roll to the ER," model to the "OK, he/she ain't gonna dump his/her entire load of blood on the floor during the ride, let's haul ass to the ER RFN" model.


Without wandering into any wildly long tangents about how the shooting rate is gonna continue to go up due to DOJ rules and "transformative justice" and "social justice" LE models which are driven by the MSM, which increasingly seems to set LE policy in our nation, that's all I have for now.  (Partly because I just got back from an entirely impromptu and unscheduled wake for a wonderful old rapscallion of a Vietnam Vet who had the bloody temerity to up and fucking die on us without any sort of clearance, permission, or decent warning, the bleeding bastard, and, drunk as I am right now on a school night (as it were,) I had five frigging paragraphs typed here on the topic of crime in America, but managed to go back a page and lost it all to the winds of the stupid computer gods.  I might try again at some later time, when the cold harsh bitch that is sobriety has claimed me once again in her evils claws.)  Well, maybe.  Might have typed more than was good for me anyway.

Have you seen that place?   It is.

I've seen photos of Mardi Gras and the people are all drunk, thus their poor shooting ability.

No, its not national.

Its a problem completely within a few vibrant urban centers.