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 […]
Seattle ‘Gun Tax’ Dud Confirmed; $103K Total Take
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 […]