Responding to a trio of drive-by shootings along a Seattle street since last fall, socialist City Councilwoman Kshama Sawant has offered a solution: raised flower beds and speed bumps on the street. According to KING5 News, the local NBC affiliate, Sawant called for “common sense gun measures” including a ban on semi-automatic firearms. The Jet […]
Interesting Data: Seattle Murders Up Since Gun Control Crusade Began
Relying on Seattle Police Department data, Patch.com reported that the Jet City “tallied more homicides (last) year than any year in more than a decade,” an interesting revelation considering that passage of an anti-gun-rights initiative, largely supported by Seattle voters, was supposed to reduce murder and mayhem. There were, according to the article, 31 homicides […]
More on Gun-Related Deaths 2017: The New Math of Hysteria?
Continued reporting on gun-related deaths in 2017—a record high in the U.S. in almost 40 years, according to The Hill and other publications—keeps one thing in perspective: combining the number of suicides, homicides, accidents, legal interventions and “operations of war” creates a more dramatic, and perhaps misleading, impression about firearms in the United States. Last […]
‘Gun Deaths’ Reach ‘Record High,’ Says CNN
According to a new report at CNN, “gun deaths in America have reached a record high.” The report says that 39,773 people “died by guns” last year, and this is where it appears a numbers game starts playing, which can be understandably frustrating to anyone used to asking direct questions and getting direct answers. It’s […]
Seattle Center Homicide Has Lessons Liberals Refuse to Hear
UPDATED 11/6 – A fatal stabbing at the Seattle Center last Friday has some lessons for anti-gunners across the country that they don’t want to hear. One reason may be that the suspect, identified as David Lee Morris, was held at bay for several minutes by a legally-armed citizen until police arrived and […]
Another WA City Poking at Preemption
Another city in western Washington appears to be preparing to test how far it can get against the state’s 35-year-old preemption statute, and gun rights advocates in any state with a similar law should pay attention to what is happening in the Evergreen State. As Alan Gottlieb, chairman of the Citizens Committee for the Right […]