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 […]
Seattle’s ‘Gun Problem’: Blame, Penalize Law-Abiding Citizens
Noted in the third paragraph of a KOMO News story about the shooting death of a Seattle woman last Friday in the Beacon Hill neighborhood is the fact that the suspect “has nine prior felony convictions,” which disqualified him from legal gun ownership or possession. It is not a unique problem to the Jet City. […]
Seattle: Possible Gang Dispute Leads (Predictably) to Gun Control Demand
A Memorial Day shooting at a Seattle park that may have been “gang-involved but not necessarily gang-related,” according to KING5 News, has drawn a predictable reaction from two city council members, who suggested more restrictions on firearms. The incident left a mother and her baby wounded at Pritchard Beach in the city’s Rainier Valley […]
Found in Seattle: Solution to Drive-By Shootings?
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 […]
Murders Up Since WA Gun Control Laws Passed
Reporting on a “troubling” trend in random killings involving homeless people in Seattle and King County, Washington, a Seattle Times story has the unintentional consequence of revealing how homicides in the county that overwhelmingly supported a pair of restrictive gun control initiatives have actually gone up since the measures were passed. Whether anyone will ask […]
Before Passing More Gun Control Laws, Look at Chicago
The Chicago Tribune is reporting that in a single 24-hour period over the past weekend, 24 people were shot in the Windy City, including three adults who died, and that likely brings the 2019 body count to 90-plus. A running count is maintained by the Chicago Sun-Times, which listed 89 slayings in the city as […]
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