Don’t live in Seattle.
All my guns were lost in a tragic boating accident while hunting squid.......................................
Didn’t we go through the taxing-of-rights thing already? Several decades ago? Can Seattle impose a tax on voting?
My beloved hometown, conservative until the Kalifornians invaded us in the 80’s.
The first conflict of the American Revolution might be said to be the result of the Stamp Act of 1765. In August of 1765, Andrew Oliver, the stamp agent in Boston was hung in effigy from the Liberty Tree and forced to resign his commission.
"What a greater Joy did ever New England see
Than a Stampman hanging on a Tree".
Lt. Gov Thomas Hutchinson and the sheriff attempted to break up the crowd around midnight only to be driven off by a hail of stones and harsh commentary.
A couple of weeks later a crowd gathered and lit a bonfire on King St in Boston. They then moved on to the house of William Story, a Crown agent in the admiralty court. The crowd swarmed the house, destroying Story's papers and his furnishings as well as Court records held there.
The crowd then moved on to the home of Boston's Controller of Customs, Benjamin Hallowell. They tore down his fence, broke out his windows, stormed the house and stripped it of contents.
The next target of the night was Hutchinson's home. The Lt. Gov. had gotten warning and sent his family to safety. But his eldest daughter had returned and declared she would stay unless Hutchinson also departed. Hutchinson retreated with her to a neighbor's house. The crowd did its work again and left only a shell and a partial roof to greet the dawn.
Thus our ancestors met overreaching government. It was not the last battle but merely a beginning. There followed the Declaratory Act and the Townsend Acts and the Tea Act. Martial law and direct resistance pushed back and forth until "The Shot Heard 'Round the World" and then it was game on.
I lived in the Seattle area for 45 years. I could not care less what Seattle does regarding a tax on this stuff. I’d just buy it in the burbs. Heck, I did anyway...
Kinda reminds me of Chicago. They drive up the cost of a commodity and everyone simply goes outside the city (or county) to get it. In a way, it’s a tax on the poor - those that can’t just hop in their car and drive a few miles.
The Fascist Left is on a roll.
So let's give it back to them in spades, let's keep bullying and attacking the ass-bandits with 72 day waiting periods before a marriage license can be given, background checks on ass-bandits, tax on all homosexual marriages, registration of all homosexuals, photo ID’s and permits for all homosexuals, posting in all public forums and newspapers photos of the homosexuals who apply for a marriage license, just to start!
That knife cuts both ways socialist!
Does Seattle City Council president Tim Burgess have an interest in a gun shop outside Seattle City limits? Driving business outside the city is the effect this would have.