After Tacoma Police fatally shot an armed man—later identified as Willem Van Spronsen of Vashon Island—who was protesting, and apparently trying to destroy, the Northwest Detention Center (NDC), was news coverage somehow different than it might have been had the dead man been identified as a right-wing deportation activist and Second Amendment advocate? Van Spronsen […]
D.C. Attorney General Subpoenas NRA, NRA Foundation
UPDATED: The District of Columbia’s attorney general on Friday issued subpoenas to the National Rifle Association and the NRA Foundation in what Newsweek called “a series of ongoing probes into the gun-rights group and its finances.” According to the Washington Post, “The office of Attorney General Karl Racine is seeking financial documents from the NRA […]
Anti-Gunners Lament: Sheriffs Refuse to Enforce Gun Control
A Seattle-based gun prohibition lobbying group has sent an email blast to supporters, lamenting that “Some sheriffs around Washington State” are refusing to enforce provisions of gun control Initiative 1639, the billionaire-backed measure passed by about 60 percent of voters last November, but already being challenged in U.S. District Court on constitutional grounds. “This is […]
Brutal Knife Attack Leaves Seattle Anti-Gunners in Quandary
A brutal broad daylight triple-stabbing on a downtown Seattle street Tuesday leaves anti-gun city leaders and Washington state’s billionaire-backed—and Seattle-based—gun prohibition lobbying group in a quandary. They can’t call it “gun violence.” They can’t blame the National Rifle Association, or use it in one of their weekly fund-raising email blasts. They certainly can’t exploit it […]
‘Presence Filled a Room’—Ross Perot Dies; Did He Help Elect Bill Clinton?
H. Ross Perot, the bigger-than-life self-made Texas billionaire whose 1992 independent presidential bid was blamed by many for assuring Bill Clinton’s victory over then-President George H.W. Bush, has died. The 89-year-old Perot, who once described the movement of U.S. jobs to Mexico as “a giant sucking sound,” according to the Las Vegas Review […]
‘NRA On Its Heels’ Says Gun Control Group as VA Guv’s Gun Session Looms
Declaring that the National Rifle Association has been in “a perpetual state of turmoil” recently, the billionaire-backed Everytown for Gun Safety—Michael Bloomberg’s gun prohibition lobbying group—says “NRA is on its heels and we can keep it there” as Virginia lawmakers prepare for Gov. Ralph Northam’s gun control special session Tuesday. Northam’s agenda was detailed by […]
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