Dave Workman
Seattle Gun Rights Examiner

A Washington newspaper yesterday morning published an editorial that created quite a stir by announcing that “The left has permanently lost the argument on gun control,” which ought to be required reading for Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn, the staff at Washington CeaseFire, and the Seattle Times editorial board.

Political tremors were hardly noticed in the Jet City, however, because the newspaper in question was the Washington Times, not the Seattle Times, Tacoma News Tribune, Everett Herald, Spokane Spokesman-Review, Tri-Cities Herald, Vancouver Columbian or any of the other daily news organs in the Pacific Northwest. Tens of thousands of readers of those newspapers undoubtedly own firearms and are staunch proponents of the First Amendment as well as the Second, but it may be a hot, dry January day in Bellingham before anybody reads that argument in any newspaper in these parts.

The Times editorial pointed to passage of a “castle doctrine” bill in Wyoming on Monday while North Carolina’s Senate passed a similar measure the same day, a Tuesday hearing on a similar proposal in Pennsylvania before a state Senate committee, and the introduction in Congress of a bill that would mandate national recognition/reciprocity of concealed carry permits and licenses in every state. Seattleites who reflexively vote for anyone on the Left, the farther that direction the better, even if they are demonstrably incompetent, will froth at what the Washington Times said about this reciprocity measure:

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At the national level, Rep. Cliff Stearns, Florida Republican, and Rep. Heath Schuler, North Carolina Democrat, introduced a measure providing for national reciprocity of concealed carry permits. That means anyone with the legal ability to carry in his home state could do so in another state as long as he abides by all applicable state laws. It’s unfortunate this common-sense bill has no chance of getting past the Oval Office as long as it is occupied by a bigoted man who derisively describes small-town America as a place where people “cling to guns.”—Washington Times

It is worthy to note that legislation legalizing the use of suppressors (“silencers”) on guns appears to be sailing through our Legislature. The House version (HB 1016) passed the House and is in the Senate Judiciary awaiting action, while the Senate version (SB 5212) passed unanimously out of Senate Judiciary and is in Senate Rules awaiting a floor vote. If it passes in its original form, the bills are duplicates, and will go straight to Gov. Christine Gregoire, according to veteran lobbyist Joe Waldron.

Meanwhile, the City of Seattle is still pursuing its appeal in the case it lost against Bellevue’s Second Amendment Foundation and Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, and the National Rifle Association, over the city’s illegal parks gun ban. That ban was attempted by former anti-gun Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels, a founding member of Mayors Against Illegal Guns. His successor, McGinn – a transplant from New York – is farther to the left than Nickels, even though that just doesn’t seem possible.

Whenever the left is defeated at the statehouse and ballot box, it turns to the courts. The Supreme Court shot down most of these efforts with the District of Columbia v. Heller and McDonald v. City of Chicago rulings reviving judicial recognition of the Second Amendment.—Washington Times

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Unfortunately, the Washington Times overlooks one inconvenient truth: Fanatics on the Left who irrationally hate firearms and the people who own them, for whatever reason real or imagined, will never concede. Despite two landmark Supreme Court rulings on the Second Amendment, one secured last June by Bellevue’s SAF with its victory in McDonald v. City of Chicago, the Left clings to the notion that the high court was simply wrong.

In the final analysis, though, it is the Left that is wrong, and wrong-headed, about gun rights and gun owners, and as the Washington Times concludes, there is a “growing realization among many Democratic lawmakers that they’ve lost gun control as a political issue.”

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