A frightening take-over armed robbery over the weekend at a restaurant in Sea-Tac, a suburban area south of Seattle, Washington, has raised an interesting question on social media: Should this change one’s view about the defensive carry of a concealed handgun? Bob’s Burgers ‘n Teriyakis is not a large place, and there were customers inside, […]
‘Blood on Their Hands,’ Hypocrisy in at Least One Pocket?
In the aftermath of a grisly murder in Western Washington involving an alleged illegal immigrant, the host of a popular midday Seattle radio program wrote at MyNorthwest.com, “Jay Inslee, Dow Constantine, Jenny Durkan, Bob Ferguson, and Mitzi Johanknecht once again have blood on their hands after the recent Auburn murder.” The murder victim in this […]
SAF, NRA Score Win in Edmonds, WA ‘Safe Storage’ Lawsuit
A Superior Court judge in Washington’s Snohomish County has ruled that a “safe storage” ordinance adopted last year by the City of Edmonds violates the Evergreen State’s 35-year-old state preemption law, and in the process may have set the stage for a state Supreme Court confrontation. A Superior Court judge in neighboring King County dismissed […]
Is Media Manipulating Public Opinion with ‘Camo-Speak’?
An old strategy of the gun prohibition movement is being identified with a new slang term—“camo-speak”—which translates to substituting terms like “gun safety” and “gun reform” for gun control, and the establishment press appears to have embraced that deceptive vocabulary so completely that it is misleading. One organization, WaGuns.org, even has T-shirts emblazoned with the […]
Pew: Modest Rise in Support for Stricter Gun Control Laws
Pew Research is reporting a “modest rise in support for stricter gun laws in the United States since 2017,” including a majority (71%) who “favor banning high capacity ammunition magazines.” In a story bylined by Pew research assistant Katherine Schaeffer, the polling organization also revealed an increase in the number of Americans who support […]
Buttigieg v. Beto: ‘Take the Fight to the NRA’
In a feverish exchange over how best to disarm American gun owners of their semiautomatic modern sporting rifles during the Tuesday Democratic debate, Mayor Pete Buttigieg resorted to a favorite tactic of the gun prohibition movement: get around disagreements on policy by demonizing the National Rifle Association. “Everyone on this stage is determined to get […]
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