If guns are that scary, then showing them being used by cool people like Hollywood stars in lethal ways must be even scarier than a gun sitting quietly in a gun safe. Let’s ban violent video games, movies, and TV shows!

Think that tramples on your first amendment rights? Think first amendment trumps second amendment?

Then, let’s tax ‘em instead. Tax ‘em hard. Tax ‘em good. Sin taxes. Good. Sin. Bad.

You want to watch a violent movie or TV show? Fine. Pay an excessive violence tax (EVT) of $5 per show. Want a first-person shooter video game? Fine, pay a $25 EVT.

But before you get to watch your violence, you must first take a required course in violence awareness and anger management. Oh, and you must pass the test. Fee: $25.

Wait. If you have violent shows or games at home, you must store them under lock and key so that impressionable kids can’t get them and watch them. Price vary, but violence safes range from under $100 to over $1,000. Remember, if you save one life from senseless violence, then it is worth it.

There’s more. On top of this, if you want to purchase or rent a violent show or video game, you must submit to a required 30 day background check. We will check if you have domestic violence warrants or arrests, whether you were caught pointing a finger gun in school, whether you have a violent criminal conviction, whether you neighbors or family says you have been observed to be angry, or that you might have psychological violence issues.

Undergoing such a check will put your name in a national database of violence prone so that you can be first suspects in case anyone around your area commits an act of violence. Of course, state employee bureaucrats will administer the system and I am sure that they will do a much better job than the credit rating agencies in the private sector do, and there will be fewer than 10% errors in the system. That’s our goal, anyway, well, maybe less than 25% errors, wait, less than 40%. Right. 40% is a good goal.

If a violent crime is committed by someone in your area, then local newspapers and Internet sites for the community must publish a list of people in the violence database with a Google map with a pin on their home address so we can all see who you are.

In fact, it would be a good idea for law enforcement to place a sign on your lawn that this house is home to a violence offender.

Oh yeah, once in the database, you cannot live within 2 miles of a public or private school, you cannot be a scout leader, or a member of the boys and girls club, or any organization that includes children. You will not be allowed to visit relatives with children under the age of 26 that are living in the house, no make that under 33.

The only exception to these rules will be for military and police, who get a an opposite test to see if there is enough violence in them to warrant investing video games and shows for the public defense. We do want to nurture violence in part of that part society that keeps the rest of us in check and under constant scrutiny.

Oh, and the other exception, of course, will be for any member of federal, state, or local government, members of their family (immediate and extended family members), and political contributors, and members of public service unions who work for these same government institutions.

Finally, all citizens will be required to turn over all violent movies, video games, TV shows, audios, books, anything with violence in them by a specific deadline, and we mead dead line, er, no, that’s a violent thought. These materials will be confiscated. You may have them back by submitting to the process above. New, used, or grandfathered, it makes no difference. Everything must be checked, and if violent, then taxed. This is the Australian theory of societal control and mastery. Take ‘em all; take every last one.

You know? This started out tongue in cheek, but I like the idea.

Write your Congressperson and tell her, Diane, support the Violence Into love Empowerment Act of 2013 (VILE), and Barbara, consider taxing the Hollywood studios that make violent movies and TV show $5 million per episode or show (EVT). That ought to help California keep up its spending habit.

DBear on February 21, 2013

This idiot might want to check with that other idiot, lostnannystate. Her “shame and embarrassment” campaign didn’t work either.

93% of all guns used in crimes came into possession by theft or some other form of deception…remind me again how their proposals address the criminals?

hillsoftx on February 21, 2013 at 8:52 PM

They’re going to outlaw deception, duh! With an exception for politicians, of course.

wolly4321 on February 21, 2013 at 9:21 PM

My sympathy for your loss, and my hope that your attitude and actions can help someone else not be a victim, too.

The catch is, these checks will require the addition of the firearm information (serial numbers, weapon type, caliber, etc). Currently, only the buyer is checked. They have their drivers license number checked (or other state identifier). This new check will allow a database to be created which will be a de-facto government registration of firearms, ultimately.

catmman on February 21, 2013 at 9:22 PM

Ding ding ding!

Someone who has lost a family member deserves the truth as the speaker sees it, not misleading pandering designed solely to reduce the speaker’s own discomfort. He gave that to her. Good for him. Not every politician would have been so forthright.

Done. Cooked. Screwed. Whatever you want to call it.

Take a look at your future, rest of the country, this will be knocking at your door soon enough.

http://www.wbal.com/article/97765/2/template-story/Senate-Panel-Approves-Gun-Control-Bill

The assault-weapons ban isn’t going to pass Congress

What worries me is that the larger assault on 2A, federal background checks, may be passed, then inevitably to lead to federal gun registration. Once they know who owns the guns, taxation/regulation/confiscation is a piece of cake.

If there are background checks, they must be state and local, with reliable provisions that the info is periodically destroyed and never used for a registry.

You need a history lesson, Eeyore. It was estimated that at the point in which the first shot of the American Revolution was fired, fully 1/3 of the colonists were British loyalists who actively desired to stay under the crown’s protection. Another 1/3 of the colonists were indifferent. That makes 2/3 of the population that, at the time, could not be counted on to aid the rebellion.

Of course the victor writes the history books, but don’t you think the leaders back then thought things were a little bleak, too?

gryphon202 on February 22, 2013 at 6:43 AM

I have yet to see ONE SINGLE PERSON stand up and be counted, let alone 1/3 of our population.

The colonists had more testicular fortitude than any of us will ever possess, plus they had some high-ranking allies.

We have John McCant, BOHICA Bohenor, Mitt Romney, and cancers like Karl Rove and Ann Coulter sabotaging anything and everything we do. Add that a Fourth Estate Media and millions of low-info voters permanently brainwashed Socialists and it becomes virtually impossible.

And you want me to lie and say we can win? Figures.

Myron Falwell on February 21, 2013 at 10:13 PM

You need a history lesson, Eeyore. It was estimated that at the point in which the first shot of the American Revolution was fired, fully 1/3 of the colonists were British loyalists who actively desired to stay under the crown’s protection. Another 1/3 of the colonists were indifferent. That makes 2/3 of the population that, at the time, could not be counted on to aid the rebellion.

Of course the victor writes the history books, but don’t you think the leaders back then thought things were a little bleak, too?

Govt doesn’t care if you own guns. Their strategy is to overwhelm the market by exercising options to buy 10s of millions of rounds of ammo. Existing contracts mandate manufacturers to apply 100% resources to filling the orders. That way no retail capacity exists and ammo prices “necessarily” skyrocket due to lack of availability.

2,142 bullets per agent per year… if their aim is that poor perhaps Biden should get them all shotguns. Seems more cost effective in the long run…

elgeneralisimo on February 21, 2013 at 9:52 PM

Except that no one trains with hollow points.

And you should read the story of truck driver delivering a semi full of ammo to the feds and upon unloading seeing a warehouse full to the top (literally), including a ton of 12ga slugs. When asked, agent accepting the delivery said with a smile, “We call them door openers”.

Yep feds are definitely arming for “training”. Let’s stop being naive.

Idiot, the criminals will have access to all the guns and your kid will be more vulnerable than ever. Think!!!

lol oh yes, if only those 6 year olds had all had guns! dang gun-free schools! we are all still in the wild west apparently YEEE HAWWW well guess what wingnut times have changed and people have evolved, except for you violent knuckle-draggers, luckily you are being out-voted, makes me scared as to what you types will do though when you really feel powerless, you will probably be wanting to use those guns you love so much, hopefully just against yourself and no one else though

DBear on February 21, 2013 at 11:22 PM

Who said anything about arming 6 year olds nimrod? Utah has allowed teachers and staff to carry concealed for years. No accidents, no school shootings.

-F

Life is rarely ever fair and some suffer because of it. POS like you make the world even less fair and filled with more death, poverty, rape, destruction and chaos. If it wasn’t for scum like you and your deadly gun free zones, less children would be dead and less woman would be raped. Scum like you prefer rape victims and dead children to our god given right to self defense. There are two kinds of people in this world. Predators and prey. You want to cut the horns off the gazelle

jawkneemusic on February 21, 2013 at 11:16 PM

lol oh yes, if only those 6 year olds had all had guns! dang gun-free schools! we are all still in the wild west apparently YEEE HAWWW well guess what wingnut times have changed and people have evolved, except for you violent knuckle-draggers, luckily you are being out-voted, makes me scared as to what you types will do though when you really feel powerless, you will probably be wanting to use those guns you love so much, hopefully just against yourself and no one else though

The freedom my side cares most about is the freedom for 6 year olds to go to school and not get slaughtered by weapons of war, not the freedom to fulfill your violent wingnut fantasies of war agianst the government soldiers you all claim to support so much….

DBear on February 21, 2013 at 10:48 PM

Life is rarely ever fair and some suffer because of it. POS like you make the world even less fair and filled with more death, poverty, rape, destruction and chaos. If it wasn’t for scum like you and your deadly gun free zones, less children would be dead and less woman would be raped. Scum like you prefer rape victims and dead children to our god given right to self defense. There are two kinds of people in this world. Predators and prey. You want to cut the horns off the gazelle in hopes it stops the lion from preying on it. To that I say MOLON LABE.

The freedom my side cares most about is the freedom for 6 year olds to go to school and not get slaughtered by weapons of war, not the freedom to fulfill your violent wingnut fantasies of war agianst the government soldiers you all claim to support so much….

DBear on February 21, 2013 at 10:48 PM

Life’s a bitch. It’s rarely ever fair and some suffer because of it. POS like you make the world even less fair and filled with more death, poverty, rape, destruction and chaos. If it wasn’t for scum like you and your deadly gun free zones, less children would be dead and less woman would be raped. Scum like you prefer rape victims and dead children to our god given right to self defense. There are two kinds of people in this world. Predators and prey. You want to cut the horns off the gazelle in hopes it will stop the lion from preying on it. To that I say MOLON LABE.

The freedom my side cares most about is the freedom for 6 year olds to go to school and not get slaughtered by weapons of war, not the freedom to fulfill your violent wingnut fantasies of war agianst the government soldiers you all claim to support so much….

DBear on February 21, 2013 at 10:48 PM

Life is rarely ever fair and some suffer because of it. POS like you make the world even less fair and filled with more death, poverty, rape, destruction and chaos. If it wasn’t for scum like you and your deadly gun free zones, less children would be dead and less woman would be raped. Scum like you prefer rape victims and dead children to our god given right to self defense. There are two kinds of people in this world. Predators and prey. You want to cut the horns off the gazelle

No doubt a conclusion you’ve come to after conducting LOT’S of oral interviews.

xblade on February 21, 2013 at 11:02 PM

hehe, yep but no conservatives. I don’t give conservative gays the time of day