The City of Seattle on Monday afternoon confirmed what had long been suspected by Second Amendment advocates, that their so-called “gun violence tax” had pulled in far less than originally projected, a total of $103,766.22 for all of 2016. When the city council hastily adopted the gun tax two years ago, then-Council President Tim Burgess […]
Seattle’s Liberal Lip Service Exposed By Surprising Source
Veteran Seattle Times columnist Danny Westneat can drive conservatives nuts, but this week he took a rare course change and let liberals have it with both barrels; a deliberate “gun language’ description because what left-tilting Jet City politicians exhibit so well is their visceral dislike of the Second Amendment. Where they excel, it appears, is […]
Columnist Lauds Aussie Gun Control; Doesn’t ‘Contend’ With 2A
Seattle Times columnist Jerry Large, a perennial gun control proponent, evidently thinks the United States would be better off if the Second Amendment weren’t such a roadblock to the arrival of Utopia. Here’s part of what Large wrote Monday morning: “Australia famously enacted strict gun-ownership laws after a mass shooting in 1996. The impact has […]
Seattle Newspaper Floats Inslee-for-President Trial Balloon
The Seattle Times on Tuesday released what amounts to a “trial balloon” with a discussion about the prospects of liberal Democrat Gov. Jay Inslee running for president in 2020. Inslee is a strong supporter of just about any gun control scheme that comes along. He was turned out of Congress at the end of his […]
Washington Citizen Rally Set Friday Over Gun Control
While Evergreen State Second Amendment activists had already planned a rally on the capitol steps in Olympia this Friday, with Monday’s debut of proposed gun control legislation by Democrat Attorney General Bob Ferguson, they now have a specific target. Already, the Seattle Times story on Ferguson’s two pieces of legislation – one calling for an […]
When Seattle Newspaper Pushed Gun Ban, This Happened
When the Seattle Times’ decidedly anti-gun editorial board told its readers that it supported a proposed ban on so-called “assault weapons,” even after admitting that they are “used in a small fraction of America’s gun homicides,” angry readers flooded the newspaper’s on-line comments section to fight back. Sixty hours after the editorial was published online, […]