Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle has floated a new proposal aimed at addressing the overwhelming impact of gun violence on the county's coffers by introducing a new tax on guns and ammunition sold in Chicago and its suburbs. Preckwinkle is looking to implement a so-called "violence tax" as part of her new budget, which is slated to be introduced on Oct. 18. Preckwinkle has not yet discussed the specific amount of the possible tax.
An 18-year-old from Montgomery, IL, was arrested for smoking marijuana in front of the Villa Park police chief’s house, located in Naperville. Villa Park Police Chief Robert Pavelchik Jr., said the teen, Maximilian G. Salling, was smoking pot in plain view, right in front of his home, when he came home from work.
According to a victim’s advocate with the Alliance Against Intoxicated Motorists, the indictment against Casey was increased after blood work indicated the 20-year-old was under the influence of multiple drugs, not just inhalants According to police, Casey was huffing the contents of an aerosol can right before she passed out behind the wheel, crossed the centerline and caused a two vehicle crash, April 28, that injured an elderly woman in Palatine.
The trial for state senator Suzi Schmidt starts today. Schmidt was arrested June 12 for misdemeanor criminal damage and criminal trespass and was served with an Emergency Stalking No Contact Order after a dispute with her neighbor, according to the Lake County Sheriff's Office.
Can Highwood carve more than 30,919 pumpkins this year? Town officials aim to surpass the world record set last year, when Highwood residents bested the previous 30,128 carved-pumpkin record set by Boston in 2006. John Kindseth, an assistant to the city manager, said the city of 5,000 people is aiming to light 32,000 this year. They're hoping to keep at bay Keene, N.H., which first set the record in 1996 and is aiming to unseat Highwood with its own carving carnival.
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Not a gun owner and agree with Red, and your logic is sort of weak, i.e. someone compelled to kill is stopped by a fee, and you should read the second amendment.
why should anyone pay in part for the misdeeds of someone who shots another?
It's against the law to own a gun in the city of Chicago yet Every Day there are stories about multiple shootings across the city overnight. Yea that law is REALLY helping curb the gun violence in the city!
"A guest of residents living in the 900 block of Burridge Ct. reported a Colt 380 semi-automatic gun with a black grip was stolen from the console of an unlocked vehicle during the evening of Oct. 5. The gun is valued at $800 and nothing else was stolen from the vehicle (patch blotter.)" There are ways to help curb some of these problems. All these guns leave the factory legally.....
If you want to buy guns and ammo with out any id’s just go on the Chicago streets. When I worked downtown (River North area) I was approached to buy live hand grenades for $20.00 each and full auto machine guns. The sellers were young teen age kids. Naturally I declined. Most of this stuff is stolen from military bases or smuggled in from other Countries. It doesn’t come from your local gun shop.
I can’t think of a better way to protect our gun rights. Once guns and ammo are taxed the tax will always go up. When the tax man is wasting away these tax dollars surely they won’t want to loose the revenue by outlawing the source. If they ban the guns then they can’t collect the tax.
Name one other right guaranteed under the Bill of Rights for which the government requires so much of its citizens. No fee, tax or penalty is required to worship, peacably assemble, to have a trial by your peers, to be afforded counsel, etc.
Something isn't right when the only concern gun advocates have is that they receive less restrictions to own a deadly weapon. They ignore or write off incidents as minutia. When little jimmy accidentally shoots his sister, when Loughner buys and carries his gun legally to commit a mass killing, when inner city kids get shot up in the cross fire. We are one of the most advanced countries in the world and over half of us think it's ok or a right to make sure procuring a weapon intended to kill is as easy as possible.
If anyone actually believes that the gang bangers murdering each other bought guns in stores, have FOID cards, pass background checks, or would pay an ammo tax, let me know so I can pass on info about a multi-million fortune you may have inherited overseas. Of course they didn't. They stole the guns. Or bought them from a friend who stole them.
I agree with most of your comment, with one exception. I believe organized gangs get straw buyers to get guns for them. I'm sure there are some stolen guns, but buying a gun is fairly easy in many states, i.e. money talks.
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