Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms to Seattle: BOHICA
Once again, America is reminded that we are our own first responders, and that we cannot count on law enforcement to keep us safe. With the Seattle City Council preparing to slash police services, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms is recommending that Seattleites prepare for the worst. The military has a nice, pithy acronym (they’re really good at that) for this situation: BOHICA, or Bend Over, Here It Comes Again. As part of that effort they should buy a gun if that’s their choice, and demand that both the Seattle Police Department and King County Sheriff’s Office resume taking applications for concealed pistol licenses.
Both agencies stopped accepting new CPL applications more than three months ago, due to the COVID-19 outbreak, while processing renewals has continued. But this has left new gun owners unable to apply. Gun sales have spiked nationally due to the pandemic panic and civil unrest in downtown Seattle. City residents travel to gun shops in neighboring communities for their purchases to escape Seattle’s regressive gun and ammunition tax, said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb.
“While the city council may believe crippling its police department is a politically smart move,” Gottlieb observed, “it’s going to directly impact public safety. Nobody should be surprised when more people buy guns and apply for carry licenses, only in Seattle and King County, applying for a CPL hasn’t been possible since March.
“Seattleites saw what happens when there is limited police response by watching what occurred in the so-called ‘CHOP’ zone in the city’s Capitol Hill neighborhood,” he noted. “Two teens were murdered, four other people were injured in shootings, and no amount of fluff reporting and official denial could conceal the anarchy.
“This effort to defund the police creates legitimate concerns among Seattle residents and people who work in the city about their safety,” Gottlieb said. “Preventing people from applying for a concealed pistol license is tantamount to denying them their right to bear arms under the state and federal constitutions.
“We know other agencies also suspended the CPL application process,” he noted, “and it is time for Seattle and King County to demonstrate some leadership by opening this process back up.
“We fully support anyone’s decision to buy a gun for personal protection,” Gottlieb said. “We encourage new gun owners to take a safety course, study the rules of gun safety, and practice safe gun handling. We also recommend they demand resumption of the carry license application process immediately. Rights delayed are rights denied.”
Good call on that. The East and west coast my have great views but horrible politics. Glad I don’t live in the libtard coast.
Thank God you and I don’t live in the pool of human waste, with no plans to go there. The mayor needs to be removed from office. She is out of touch with today’s real world. What a fruit cakes she is. She the blood of the dead is on her hands.
As an NRA member for forty years, I would encourage everyone to be prepared to defend themselves and their families. Calling 911 will not help if you are killed before the police ever get to your home.
I hope Black Lives Matter encourages its members to exercise their 2nd Amendment rights.
I am a white lawyer, and even I have been subject to being harassed by the police on two occasions.
If you are not experienced with weapons, I would suggest a cheap but magnificent Remington 870 Shotgun with the wood plug removed to allow for at least five shots instead of the 3 you are limited to when bird hunting. Millions of these have been sold for decades. The benefit of a shotgun is that it is less likely to go through a wall and injure another family member in your house.
The Mossberg Riot Shotgun is also fairly inexpensive, and extremely effective, which holds about 8 shotgun shells.
Remember: Black gun owners matter to protect black lives!
Jay Harris
Until the “People” of Seattle, and all of the Democratic cities and States run by their elected officials wake up from their utopian dream, and finally realize what is actually causing their problems, there will be no change. Correction…change will happen, but only to make things worse!!
Well, it all comes down to this; ya get what ya pay for, and the Seattleites have allowed their government to be infiltrated with FLC’s. Like the man said, you can vote yourself into socialism, but you have to shoot your way out of it.
Randy, you hit a grand slam on that one.