UPDATED: Even before Seattle Police investigators have been able to determine a motive for Wednesday’s wild shooting spree in the Seattle’s Lake City neighborhood, a member of the Seattle City Council tweeted, “We must have stronger gun control laws,” as if one more law might have prevented the chaos. The tweet came from Councilwoman Teresa […]
Pelosi Threatens 2A in Spat with Trump over Border ‘Emergency’
Anti-gun Democrat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi picked a favorite target of her party – the rights of gun owners – in her spat du jour with President Donald Trump over his declaration of a national emergency to secure additional border wall funding by suggesting that a future Democratic president could declare an emergency to deal […]
New FBI Crime Report Could Weaken Gun Control Initiative Effort
The FBI Uniform Crime Report for 2017 is out, and for Washington State gun prohibitionists, there is a bit of bad news in relation to the initiative they are pushing that clamps down on so-called “assault rifles.” This comes after a major statewide law enforcement group took a position against Initiative 1639 on […]
WaPo: ‘More Guns Than People’ … And So What?
A recent lengthy article in the Washington Post declared there are “more guns than people in the United States,” as if that were a bad thing, but anybody attending the monthly Washington Arms Collectors’ gun show at the Puyallup Fairgrounds in Washington State over the weekend might have said it’s a good start. Evergreen State […]
Violent Crime Down, Murder Up Depending On Location – FBI
Preliminary data on crime during the first half of 2017 shows murders were up 1.5 percent during that period, but that depended upon the location, according to an FBI report released last week coincidentally while the annual Shooting, Hunting and Outdoor Trade (SHOT) Show was unfolding in Las Vegas. However, in cities of more than […]
FBI Crime Stats, Seattle Story Refute ‘Gun Violence Crisis’ Claim
Perhaps unintentionally, an article in the Seattle Times detailing the 17-percent decline in homicide between 2015 and 2016 in the Jet City and a drop of more than 20 percent in four large Puget Sound cities based on new data in the FBI Uniform Crime Report has put an email allegation by the Alliance for […]