If you are shot resisting the imposition of some other punishment such as imprisonment, you are shot for violent resistance. You’re not shot for the original crime.

There’s a continuum there, ray. The fact that you’re under arrest is inextricably linked to the original, non-violent protest. At some point, the State or its agents decides to violently arrest and imprison you. The instigator of violence in this scenario is not the tax protester, but those who would arrest him.

By and large, with very rare exceptions that should and even sometime are punished, non-violent resistance does not result in your being shot (tazered, perhaps, but one must admit that at the very least the *intention* is not to kill you).

If you are shot resisting the imposition of some other punishment such as imprisonment, you are shot for violent resistance. You’re not shot for the original crime.

It would be fairer (though less sensationalistic) to say that taxes are enforced with the door of a prison cell.

Violently resisting arrest, on the other hand, can and is sometimes enforced at the point of a gun. Assuming one accepts that police and laws are necessary for *any* purpose, including protecting your rights, I don’t see how that’s avoidable.