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 […]
WA Prohibitionists Jump Gun on I-1639 Lawsuit Claim
SAF founder and Executive Vice President Alan Gottlieb suggested that an anti-gun lobbying group jumped the gun when it announced a federal lawsuit against Initiative 1639 had been dropped. The lawsuit was simply withdrawn and refiled in federal court in Tacoma. (Dave Workman) The Seattle-based gun prohibition lobby that supported a citizen initiative now being […]
Beware the Ides of March When Gun Control is the Agenda
History has it that on March 15, 44 B.C. Julius Caesar was assassinated by members of the Roman Senate, but today’s politicians have a different strategy to remove something they don’t like: they claim to “support the Second Amendment…but.” In an interview with KING 5 News in Seattle, the local NBC affiliate, Wednesday Washington Attorney […]
Heritage Foundation Report Counters Claims about Mass Shootings
A new report from the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank based in Washington, D.C., has published a three-page report that counters much of the anti-gun rhetoric about mass shootings and so-called “assault weapons” in the wake of the Parkland, Florida high school tragedy. Headlined “The Current Gun Debate: Mass Shootings,” the report was released […]
WA Bump Stock Poll: Majority Opposes Idea
When Seattle’s KIRO, the local CBS affiliate, asked whether bump stocks should be banned, an online — and unscientific — poll showed a majority of respondents have said “No” by a wide margin. According to the poll results Tuesday evening, 64 percent of poll participants oppose the idea of banning the controversial accessory, while only […]
Evergreen State College Shuts Down Over Threat
Following days of tension at Evergreen State College near Olympia, Washington, the campus was suddenly shut down Thursday as the result of a “direct threat to campus safety” and the closure continued Friday. The drama began Thursday morning when someone called 911 and claimed to have a .44 Magnum, with which they would shoot “communist […]