Veteran conservative Seattle radio personality John Carlson could just as easily have kicked a hornet’s nest when he wrote in his column at the left-leaning “Crosscut” online news magazine that arming school officials “might not be a bad idea.” According to several reader responses, it’s not a good idea, either. But those are reactions from […]
Weekly Standard Throws down Gauntlet: ‘Let’s Debate on Guns’
Editors at The Weekly Standard this week threw down the gauntlet and challenged the gun prohibition movement to a discussion on guns, and so far, nobody has stepped up to accept. “If progressives insist on engaging in the joyless ritual of arguing about guns after every inscrutable act of mass murder,” The Weekly Standard double-dog […]
Can a Genuine Dialogue on Guns Ever Happen?
Writing in Crosscut Wednesday morning, veteran Seattle conservative talk host John Carlson has offered three suggestions to open a dialogue between constitutional rights advocates and gun prohibitionists, insisting, “there is common ground between gun rights and gun control supporters on this issue, but it is missed because each is tilling a different part of […]
‘Three Striker’ Robbery Suspect Should Stay Locked Up, Say Critics
If the “third time is a charm,” a fourth time should be the alarm; that sentiment appears to be spreading among Evergreen State citizens following the arrest of a suspect in the robberies of grocery stores and pharmacies in Seattle who was imprisoned more than 20 years ago as a “three striker.” The suspect, identified […]