Gun Control’s Latest Miserable Failure: Seattle
Seems punishing law-abiding citizens and rewarding looters doesn’t crime…who’da thunk it?
Seattle’s anti-gunners have secured a “victory” in turning their fair city into another San Francisco–complete with a sky-high homicide rate while the rest of the country rejoices in record low crime. A Wednesday report in the Seattle Times highlights the remarkably swift way that the gun-banners’ much-touted “common-sense gun control” is turning their city into a third-world hellhole. In a mere six years, the anti-gunners of Washington State have gotten every single thing on their wish list…and every time they score a “win,” Seattle’s crime rate goes up.
You’ve heard this tale of fail so many times you can probably recite it from heart, but here’s what happened. According to the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA), it started with a Seattle-based gun prohibition lobbying group largely funded by wealthy Seattle-area elitists Alliance for Gun Responsibility. They pushed through Initiative 594, a so-called “universal background check” measure that was supposed to keep guns out of the wrong hands.
In 2015, the Seattle City Council pushed through a gun tax–which, of course, has never come close to its revenue forecast. Then, just for good measure, the gun ban lobby rammed through Initiative 1639, which prohibits young adults from purchasing any kind of semiautomatic rifle and requires an “enhanced” background check and 10-day waiting period, plus proof of training.
What was the result of all this? Well, let’s turn it over to that Seattle Times article I referenced earlier, shall we?
“Through the end of July this year, Seattle had seen eight more homicides than during the same period last year (an increase of 44 percent, though that’s off a low base). In the past decade, when Seattle was enjoying one of its most peaceful stretches in our history, it had lows of just 19 homicides multiple times. This year, we passed that in June,” reads the plaintive story.
Let’s all take a moment to remember that these record-high homicide rates happened over a period of months that included a long quarantine driven by COVID-19. As one of the hardest-hit cities in the pandemic, most people were inside their homes and not coming unless they absolutely had to for three of those seven months.
“All of these restrictive gun control measures have only penalized law-abiding citizens,” noted CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb. “All three have failed miserably, and the time has come for the gun ban lobby to admit it and allow each of these bogus crime fighting tools to be repealed. Indeed, gun prohibitionists should fold their tents and go home in shame, because their anti-violence ‘remedies’ have proven to be nothing more than snake oil.”
This week, Seattle reportedly matched its 2019 homicide total. With four months remaining in the year, the body count for the city, and likely the rest of the state, will only go up. Law-abiding gun owners are not the problem, and restrictive gun control laws are not the solution, CCRKBA said.
“The gun prohibition lobby should apologize to Washington gun owners,” Gottlieb said. “Not only has the Alliance for Gun Responsibility pushed to disarm honest citizens, it also sides with violent protesters who want to defund police, and whose occupation of a Seattle neighborhood earlier this summer resulted in four non-fatal shootings and two homicides where the victims were both Black teens.
“When all of these laws were proposed,” he recalled, “we predicted they wouldn’t work, an we’ve been proven right. Homicides have crept upwards over all of Washington state during the past few years. The billionaire-backed crusade against gun owners and their rights has been an unmitigated disaster. They’ve given people a false sense of security while trampling on their rights. How many more must die before the anti-gun right extremists admit they’ve been wrong?”
Sadly, Mr. Gottlieb, as a long-time observer of gun banners, the answer to that question is that they will never admit that they’ve been wrong. That’s because as far as the gun banners are concerned, that mounting body count is a feature, not a bug.
We/I here in Arizona do not want you Dem/Lib voters moving into our state and trying to change our laws to the ones you just fxxked-up in the states your leaving.
Our open social society here does not want your closed minded Libs “teaching” us “Hate, division, so called social unrest and peaceful riots”.
My answer to your peaceful demonstrations is a forceful police force demonstrating how firearms are used to control rodents were they are not wanted or needed !
No worries; pretty soon there will no longer be any cities if things keep regressing.
Gun control has never been about safety. It is about controlling the populace. A disarmed society is far easier to control than one in which most citizens are armed. Right now we are in an election where one of the parties candidates has publicly stated that he will take your firearms. If this clown wins and his new “gun czar” gets a gun confiscation bill passed if we the people don’t use our 2nd amendment rights to stop them we will lose every freedom we have except the one that the left hold dear to their cold dead heart: the right to kill an unborn human bein in it’s mothers womb. If you don’t normally vote this year would be a great first time as our freedoms are at stake.
So very correct!
They traded liberty for safety and now have neither. It will take a large shedding of blood to retrieve lost liberty.’ Is that day coming?
I believe that one of our wise Founders predicted this very scenario.
“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” Edmund Burke
This is especially true in the USA today!
What you don’t seem to understand is the reason they failed is they didn’t go far enough. All existing gun owners must be, at the very least, imprisoned so we can have nice safe criminals who won’t need guns. Just your basic kitchen knife, hammer, tire iron, skateboard, or any other Improvised Execution Device (IED) would suffice. So no more gun violence, Simple solution to a non-existent problem.
I read somewhere that hammers were used more often than guns in homicides.
“…nice safe criminals who won’t need guns.”
Who are you trying to kid? Criminals use guns, they just don’t worry about any laws when acquiring them.
“common-sense gun control”
Is that what you’ve read or what you’ve heard? I’ve usually seen it written as “commonsense”. Apparently the gun banners aren’t good at spelling. Then again, maybe it’s their code word for their gun control measures that the people in charge realize have nothing to do with “common sense”.
The “commonsense” part is to make the unthinking think that banning guns is good. Sometimes I get the feeling that the left doesn’t quite get who they are up against.
Kind of like the ” gun safety ” lie.
Just like Wayne Lapierre from the NRA, who believes in “SENSIBLE GUN CONROL”..
Where is the NRA in all of this? Where were they when WA state passed the laws that seem intent on banning all guns with polymer receivers?
Where were the firearm owning VOTERS in all of this? THAT is the pertinent question.
Wayne Lapierre is with the gun bans, he made it clear multiple times the NRA supports “SENSIBLE GUN CONTROL”..
The flip side of this is that the FLC’s will use this fail to push even more onerous laws and infringe upon our right even further. Once the lower classes get fed up with the problems, they’ll allow the Gov. to take even more of their rights away so they can feel “safe”. Sadly, I’m not sure how much this makes ME feel safe.
I think that the reason that the democrat mayors and governors are letting their cities turn to violence is that they think that will give them a good excuse to take all guns from us citizens. “There is too much violence in our cities and so we must confiscate everyone’s guns to ensure the safety of our cities” will be their motto. Let’s hope they never get the power to enact their devious dreams.
I think that another part of this anarchy is to get liberals to move into safe states, red states, to dilute the conservative vote there by taking control and destroying it also. rinse and repeat.