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January 25, 2022

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Please don’t do this!
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Art Wolinsky
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City Clerk,
Quit trying to take away your citizen's 2nd amendment rights. This may look like a tax but it's just a step in a power grab of legal law-abiding citizen's guns.

Pamela Baker

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My vote opposing fee for gun owners was changed to neutral from your end.  Please correct itnow immediately opposing to any fees changes for gun owners. Stop violating our rights all of you Democrats are the most racists of all

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I oppose this ordinance.   It will not stand up to legal scrutiny so why are we wasting the taxpayers money on it?
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This Ordinance is political virtue signaling by vain politicians and nothing more.

1. It will have zero effect on crime.

2. It punishes innocent people for the criminal acts of others.

3. It violates the 2nd Amendment and CA State Preemption laws.

4. It will force a lawsuit against the City that the city will absolutely lose wasting taxpayer money.

Shut down this stupidity now and stop embarrassing the City. Oppose this Ordinance.

Hal Finelt

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I am against any gun ownership tax the council may pass. It’ll be challenged in court and be found unconstitutional and waste taxpayers money
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City Council members, respectfully, if you require citizens to pay what equates to a yearly tax against their very own security, I will be sure to vote out any Council member who votes for such a policy and vote in new members who will immediately overturn such and ordinance. I will advise all of my neighbors to do the same. This will be an embarrassing national issue on losing grounds and I cannot see any council member keeping their job if they vote for this and underestimate public sentiment for basic constitutional rights.

Increased taxes and liability insurance do not prevent accidents or save lives. You can do better.  Focus on the actual issues and root causes instead of blindly penalizing those who you were asked to represent. Recognize that we have both criminal and civil law that govern accountability and act as prevention. Many citizens already have personal liability insurance as well, so there is no reason for them to be forced into an additional ultra specific gun based policy.

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This action will only lead to high cost lawsuits that will force the city and its citizens into massive legal costs. I don’t want my tax money going to something so poorly connived. This future waste of resources could be better used to help the homeless, support our emergency services, reduce drug dependency, beautify our city, improve our schools, feed the hungry, etc etc.

Its obvious to all that the intent of this misguided policy is to simply discourage legal gun ownership.

This is the kind of careless, poorly considered, unconstitutional act that changes the political landscape and moves a liberal slanting, highly intellectual, Bay Area towards conservative policies.

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Do not pass the Gun Ownership tax.  It's only going to help the criminals. Look at the crime rates in all the big cities with with the strictest gun laws. The more you take away from the people the more you are going to have higher crime rates.

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I oppose the Gun ownership tax, which is unconstitutional,  and just an attempt to make it difficult or impossible people to exercise their 2nd amendment rights as provided in the constitution.

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It is hard to believe that your city is so anti-gun and anti-gun rights.  Perhaps you have not read or have failed to understand the Constitution of the United States of America which I believe you have sworn to protect.  If you proceed in this matter i along with thousands of others will donate whatever it takes to fight you in the courts to stop this attempt to limit, discourage and harass your citizens lawful right to peacefully enjoy and use their firearms by imposing restrictive taxes for political reasons.  I can only hope that your citizenry has the sense to vote you out in the next election cycle.  What goes around comes around.

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Your brand of California Leist lunacy is spiking criminality and economic degeneraon.

Silicon la la land limousine liberals pung more obstacles on people defending themselves instead of on criminal scum
Personally I hope you all get mugged and robbed by criminals who pay no aenon to your idioc gun laws.

You're good at designing circuit boards but bere of all common sense.

You're pushing this country into a civil war
You dare call Trump divisive?
Newsome ruined S.F., he's now ruining the rest of the state.

To quote Celine: "I piss on you all from a great height" R Levin Intelligent Person At Large

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What is wrong with a Gun Tax?
Well, why isn't there an Abortion Tax???
It is a Constitutional 'Right' to defend yourself and carry a Gun?  AND, we have to Register our Guns.

Babies in the Womb, cannot defend themselves?  Tax the Crap out of THAT!!!!!! I was born in California and some of you People are shamefully Whacked out!!! Any questions?

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Enough with the attacks on legal gun owners, work on the criminals and mentally ill homeless.

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I Oppose Public Safety Gun Harm Reducon Ordinance
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The proposed mis-tled gun harm reducon ordinance will do lile to stop criminal acvity which is at the heart of harm to the public from guns. Criminals by definion do not obey laws. The proposed ordinance does nothing to stop criminal acvity; rather, it penalizes non criminals for harmless non criminal acvity, while violang their constuonal rights at the same me.

Bad plan.

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Councilmembers
I am writing you to oppose this ordinance. In reading it, I do not see any provisions to reduce the supposed "gun violence" that San Jo e i e periencing We are one of the only large citie that did not ee a huge increa e in violent activity. All the data in the body of the ordinance is using numbers from other areas and not San Jose. This does not show that San Jose is experiencing this "dramatic rise".

I am trying to under tand who one might upport thi Plea e an wer the e que tion to help me Plea e do o with an open and honest answer.

1. How will this reduce crime?

2. Do you expect those that already that are prohibited from owning a gun to pay this?

3. Does any insurance company issue this insurance?

4. Do you expect people not to leave the city to not pay this tax?

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5. Why the exemptions? In the ordinance it mentions "same as car insurance". There are no exemptions there for low income.

6. Will the Chief of Police start issuing CCW permits to be able to apply for the waiver? If no, then why? The ordinance mentions in the findings item 8 that the insurance companies incentivized for the use of airbags.

Thi i not entirely true a thi wa mandated by the NTSB Al o car in urance i NOT mandatory to own a vehicle. It is only required if that vehicle is to be used on public roads. And to that end all that is required is to cover your fault accidents. You can also add onto your auto policy cover to cover other peoples damage if their coverage is not enough. So with this if you can find an insurance company to offer any of this coverage are you then going to encourage non gun owner to get thi coverage inca e they are accidently hot? The last question for this is do you not expect California Rifle & Pistol Assn, Gun Owners of California, Second Amendment Foundation and the NRA to file suit against this? They will most likely win this in court and then the City will be paying all the court co t and the money wa ted trying to defend thi Would that money not be better spent on other things the City desperately needs?
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No on gun ownership taxes!  Are you kidding?

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I’m not often surprised by legislation that is directed solely at our right to own firearms here in California.

Whether it be a magazine ban, additional waiting period, increase in age to buy a hunting rifle…all comes with the territory for legal gun owners.

Surprise, City of San Jose City Council thinks an additional tax to law abiding citizens is justified to miraculously cure its wows. We’ve been through background checks which include mental health and drug use questions. Seems to me that we are not your problem. Those who haven’t been vetted and have illegal access to a firearm might be where I started looking for crime culpability.

Why not tax all your citizens to cure the problem of illegal firearm usage? Money could/should go to mental health.

Don’t single out a minority group of law abiding citizens to pay for your supposed mess.

Taxes solve every issue. Hell with the payers.

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Please do not penalize the hard working, law abiding citizens with this ordinance. The criminals do not care about this ordinance. They will continue to break the law. You are only hurting the good people.

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Illegal, illegal and illegal. Read the constitution. Why don’t you folks attach your real problems such as illegal immigration. What are you wanting to do next? Tax the air people breathe? No wonder people are leaving California. If you vote to pass this you are going to be sued and I will gladly donate to any attorney taking you on and there will be plenty!

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I oppose the Public Safety Gun Harm Reduction Ordinance that the city of San Jose is wanting to pass which will tax registered law abiding gun owner. May I suggest that you deal with the criminals that are breaking the laws and not continue to bother legal gun owners!

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Unfortunately, the City of San Jose fails to see why the increase in violent crime in the city is for reasons that don't have anything to do with the law abiding cizens that will suffer because of the new intended policy of effecvely taxing such law abiding cizens The early release of criminals from jails, lowered penales for violent crime, less police presence, and the apparent apathy of government officials to act against this crime wave, are the real reasons we have such an increase of violent crime. Taxing law abiding cizens under the ruse of a Public Safety Gun Harm Reducon Ordinance, and then using that tax money to pay for legal fees to combat the ensuing law suits that will follow, is crazy Please rescind the ordinance and strike it from your agenda. It would be beer to address the problem, not use it to create more wasted tax policy.
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To whom it may concern,
This is going to cause the county to waste many, MANY Mulple dollars during the ligaonS which will occur if this is enacted as law in your city. WHY don't you encourage local judges to "Get Tough on Crime" and punish lawbreakers passing thru their respecve courts thereby saving these dollars which will be wasted if you enact this law.

I TRULY feel that many judges do WAY TOO MUCH Plea bargaining and let too many criminals off too easy. DO NOT PASS THIS Unintelligent law which will DO NO GOOD and end up cosng your populace a LOT OF MONEY!!!!
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I am writing to encourage to to oppose the Gun tax this ordinance. This action is a misguided attempt to help people.

The list of considerations consists of issues related to what happened when gun safety education is not encouraged. We should focus money on education and more police protection rather than punishing the thousands of law abiding citizens.

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I strongly disagree on taxing citizens. We already pay higher taxes than most people in the country.

Why would anyone pay taxes on a constitutional right. Do not pass this law.

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The proposed insurance requirements for gun owners represent a profound misunderstanding of the problem of violence in San Jose perpetrated by criminals with illegally owned firearms.

The mayor's proposal is unconstitutional, ineffective and unfair.

The city of San Jose needs to focus on the people committing violent crimes, not forcing law abiding citizens to buy bogus insurance.

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Following the logic… anything can be taxed under a Public Safety “fill in the blank” Harm Reduction Ordinance.

Please stop wasting my tax dollars on this nonsense.

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Punishing lawfully armed Americans, exercising their God-given rights guaranteed by the 2A, with stupidly thought out laws, is not the way to represent your continents. People commit crimes, not guns. Stop making up idiot excuses to cover for your own stupid mistakes. Make criminals responsible for their actions, not innocent, lawful people. Earn my re pect, not my contempt Throw thi law out and re pect citizen right Thank

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Hey San Jose go aer the criminals and leave law abiding cizens alone.

Look long and hard to see the good in this world..., you'll find it.

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If you people were so concerned about gun harm reduction, you'd severely punish the people who use them in illegal acts! Punish them, not the law abiding people! Respectfully;
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I oppo e thi ordinance What' wrong with you people for dreaming up a new ta that ha nothing to do with preventing crime
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SHAME BE ON YOU! You're aempng to chip away at the 2nd Amendment. There's a reason it's the SECOND Amendment, and not the 3rd, or the 5th, or the 10th. The reason is its importance in the Framers' mind The intent of the amendment is to keep the government at bay We, the people, are in control - not big government. Liberal intent and ideology are ignorant of human nature and aack the foundaons of our republic.

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The proposed Gun Harm and Reducon Ordinance is an unnecessary burdon on the lawful ownership of gun owners and should not be approved
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We are totally against this Agenda Item 4.1 22-045 Gun Harm Reduction Ordinance"
Vote NO
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Do not pass this ordinance! As American citizens we have constitutional rights to bear arms. Why can't you just leave America alone!!!Are you going to be okay when CHINA takes over?

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it's time this country and San Jose realize you need to stop the criminals by getting tougher because they get the guns illegally and commit the crimes and where does that leave the law abidding citizen...vulnerable
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I am writing your to express my opposition to the Gun Harm Reduction Ordinance. This ordinance is a travesty. Taxing law abiding citizens for actions of criminals is not rational.

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The problem with this type of political initiative is that it only impacts honest citizens.  You surely don't believe that someone who has a firearm illegally or who intends to use it in a crime is going to register it with the city.  And, even if you catch someone with an unregistered gun what are you going to do:
confiscate the gun and give them a fine?  I truly doubt that this would be a jailable crime.

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I oppose the proposed gun tax and insurance requirement. This ordinance will only be applicable to legal and responsible gun owners
The  non-profit group set up to manage this ordinance is nothing more than a slush fund.  The proposal specifically states the city can not direct how funds are used by the slush fund
The ordinance will do nothing to stop the two overwhelming causes of firearm deaths : suicide and criminal activity.  A 2017 PEW research study showed 97% due to suicide and criminal activity
The ordinance is window dressing. It ignores steps the city could take that are known to be effective at stopping gun violence. Confiscate guns in the hands of KNOWN  armed prohibited persons Target gang members and drug sellers

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The proposal implements taxes at the local level, in violation of the California Constitution on special taxes,  Article XIII C Section 2(d).

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This ordinance is over broad, unworkable, and based on false conclusions.

1. The City has done no fact checking of the data it presents from various entities, including virulent anti gun organizations Much of the data is skewed 2 The City has failed to examine/address the millions of dollars expended in San Jose Police Officer shootings law suits, yet exempts peace officers from the ordinance
WHY are peace officers exempt?

4. Gun Harm Reduction Fee???

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Does the Designated Non-Profit Organization include the Boy Scouts (who have been conducting safe firearms training for decades) or the National Rifle Association Foundation (which conducts thousands of Eddie Eagle Programs yearly- directly addressing gun safety to youth)? Probably not.

5. Will the Designated Non-Profit Organization be required to obtain insurance when their "programs" fail to prevent a negligent/accidental shooting?

6. How is the Designated Non-Profit Organization to be determined? I assume any such organization who has contributed to any candidate or political issue would be prohibited.

7. From the Ordinance...Gun Harm Reduction Fee
"No portion of the monies from the Gun Harm Reduction Fee shall be used for litigation, political advocacy, or lobbying activities."
Really?

You follow that subsection with...

B "The City shall not specifically direct how the monies from the Gun Harm Reduction Fee are expended."
How are you going to monitor the expenditure of our taxpayer money? How are you going to establish this "fee"?

8. The City of San Jose has never hosted any firearms safety program. The San Jose Police Department has never hosted any firearms safety program WHY?
It appears the City wants to absolve itself of any liability. 9 Has the City reached out to insurers to see which, if any, would create such an insurance policy for citizens?

10. You have no exemption for licensed firearms dealers or clubs who store firearms
11 I believe the City already has an ordinance requiring firearms to be safely stored.

What effect has that law had on accidental shootings? Any? This is a silly politically motivated ordinance by a city which has never approached firearms safety with any positive educational program.

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Perhaps if the actual criminals knew they'd receive punishment for their crimes, your crime wave might recede Punishing law abiding citizens while allowing criminals to go free is insanity.

Passage of this "Ordinance" will involve a long and very expensive lawsuit which the City will obviously lose Save your citizen's money and start prosecuting and incarcerating the real bad guys.

Tracey Graham
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Up front: GO FUCK YOURSELF
The people of California voted idiots like you into office I have no sympathy for the morons of California. They can stew in their own juice.

I just don't want anyone from California migrang to my state of Missouri.

I would hope that at least some Californians, the ones who are not queer, all two of them, will stand up and fight. Fat chance of that.

John Warren
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