Why should the NRA and people who did not use guns to commit crimes be forced to pay a special tax for crimes they did not commit....?
You are all in the same boat. And you wouldn't be paying for the crime. The money would fund the additional jails and long term incarceration.
How come you wouldn't say how you would pay for this idea of yours? You think jails are free?
Why should the general public pay for the long term incarceration of a person who committed a crime using a gun?
In my pistol whipping scenario, you have the guy in jail for 10 years minimum. At what cost? Let's say 50k a year. 500k over 10.
Now if the guy had beaten the girlfriends friend with a stick and didn't kill him, first time offender would have got minimal jail.time for assault.
But because he used a gun , the penalty is much greater and the cost is much greater.
The sellers and buyers of guns and ammo should fund the addition costs of making gun readily available, knowing that a certain amount of crimes committed with a gun will result in much longer jail sentences.
Now maybe the reality of long jail sentences will deter gun crime. Which would make those additional taxes a cheap proposition.
That money could then help people who were gun shot and lived.
But to ask the general public to fund additional jails and longer sentences so you can be tough on gun crime isn't gonna work.