Judge: Seattle Gun Ban Is Illegal
February 13, 2010
The law has sided with gun rights advocates who took the city of Seattle and former Mayor Greg Nickels to court over the city’s gun ban.
King County Superior Court Judge Catherine Shaffer on Friday ruled in favor of the plaintiffs – the Second Amendment Foundation, the Citizens’ Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, Washington Arms Collectors, National Rifle Association and five individuals – and declared the city of Seattle’s gun ban at public places is in direct violation of Washington state’s firearm pre-emption law.
In issuing the ruling, Shaffer wrote, “Seattle’s Department of Parks and Recreation’s Rule/Policy Number P 060-8.14 (”Firearms Rule”) violates Washington law and on that basis, is null and void.”
The city has been ordered to remove all signage banning weapons from public areas within 30 days.
Last June, Nickels issued an order banning guns on city facilities where children are likely to frequent. The places on the ban list include parks, playgrounds, community and environmental learning centers, sports fields and courts, swimming beaches, pools, water play areas, skate parks and golf courses.
The plaintiffs’ complaint challenged Nickels’ executive order, stating “ownership of firearm is a clearly protected right under the United States and Washington Constitutions.”
The complaint also cited Washington state Attorney General Rob McKenna, who issued an opinion in response to the city’s ban, stating state laws “preempts a city’s authority to adopt firearms law or regulations of applications of the general public.”
SAF Executive Vice President Alan M. Gottlieb called Friday’s ruling “a great victory for the rule of law and Washington citizens.”
“It is also a victory for the Legislature,” Gottlieb said, “because this case affirms the intent of lawmakers in 1983 to prevent cities like Seattle from creating a nightmare patchwork of conflicting and confusing firearms regulations.”
Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn, on the other hand, said he’s “disappointed” in the ruling.
“Cities should have the right to restrict guns in playgrounds, pools and community centers where children are present,” he said. “The court’s ruling was based on a state law, RCW 9.41.290, which preempts Seattle from regulating the possession of firearms. It’s time for the state Legislature to change that law.”
Gun Ownership As A Cost Of Health Care Reform
October 23, 2009
The National Institute Of Health (NIH) recently began studying the relationship between gun ownership and health issues.
At one time, this sort of research was done by the Centers For Disease Control (CDC) until Congress cut funding for the program, after it was found that the flawed research done by the CDC was shown to be biased against gun ownership.
Since it has been ten years since the CDC lost it’s funding for this program, why is there suddenly renewed interest in this type of research?
Some of us, (myself included) see this as yet another backdoor ploy by the “gun grabbers” in Congress and the Obama administration for yet another attack on the Second Amendment.
They will tout the implementation of stricter gun control laws as a means of reducing health care costs, due to the reduction in violent crime that would be the result of additional restrictions on firearms ownership.
They will attempt to make their case by presenting statistics showing that gun violence causes health care resources to be spent in ways that could be better utilized in other areas.
Of course, many of the American public will fall for this gibberish, not realizing that it is simply another ploy by the Obama administration to drum up support for an increasingly unpopular health care reform bill, while having the added bonus of being an assault on Second Amendment rights as well.
However, anyone who, rather than simply believe what they are told, would take the time to study the relationship between gun ownership and it’s resulting effect on health care costs would find quite a different answer than what they would assume to be the case.
Anyone holding the opinion that less gun ownership would result in less violent crime and therefore less of a strain on health care resources would learn that just the opposite is the case.
There is a direct correlation between an increase in firearms ownership and a decrease in violent crime.
Several countries that have enacted some of the strictest gun control laws in the world have seen their rates of violent crime increase.
Great Britain, after enacting laws banning the private ownership of handguns, saw their rates of violent crimes more than double.
Australia, after banning the private ownership of nearly all types of firearms, has seen their rates of violent crimes increasing by an average of nearly thirty percent per year.
Turning closer to home, the story is much the same here in the United States.
A study done by the Institute For Legislative Action, a division of the National Rifle Association shows that a 2008 study, using statistics from research done by the BATFE, the FBI and other agencies shows that increases in gun ownership lead to reductions in violent crime.
For those of you who feel that a report from the NRA is bound to be biased towards gun ownership, take a look at this synopsis of a study done by Harvard University explaing how, when it comes to restrictions on firearms ownership leading to less violent crime, and therfore reduced health care costs, the Harvard study comes to the conclusion that Gun Control Is Counterproductive.
Along with a link to the original Harvard University study, this report also mentions the overturning of the ban on firearms ownership in our nation’s capitol, Washington D.C., an area that, in spite of some of the strictest gun control laws in America, also had one of the highest rates of violent crime.
Yet everyone promoting health care reform will claim the fewer firearms will result in less violent crime, and thus treatment funds will be saved.
When all of the evidence is to the contrary.
Oh well, when has lying ever bothered anyone in the Obama administration?
To them, it comes as naturally as breathing.
Myth:Gun Control Reduces Crime
May 27, 2009
Salvaterra and I were sitting in the office the other day, discussing how occasionally you can explain something to someone who is just plain stupid, but that it is damn-near impossible with someone who either completely lacks common sense, or someone who is so blinded by a particular ideology that they simply choose to ignore any factual information that undermines their premise.
There is perhaps no better proof of that statement than regarding the issue of gun control.
Time and time again select members of Congress, the mainstream media, and various other individuals that suffer from the delusion that if only America had stricter gun laws, we would have less crime.
This has to be some sort of mental disease.
There is an overwhelming amount of data that proves that not only do restrictions on firearms ownership fail to lower crime rates, in the vast majority of situations the exact opposite is the case!
I think that it is long past the time when those of us who believe in the Second Amendment stand up and (theoretically) bitch-slap these gun grabbers who claim that less guns equals less crime, when there is overwhelming evidence to the contrary. and demand that they explain their position when everything points out that they are simply misguided fools.
Watch the video to learn more:
Congress Begins Intense Action To Repeal The Second Amendment
May 15, 2009
You gun owners better wake the hell up, the end is a lot closer than you think.
And I don’t want to hear any of this crap about another American revolution, or “they’ll take my gun when they pry it from my cold dead hands.”
Of the millions of gun owners in America, the ones who spout such drivel could hold a convention in an average-sized fast food restaurant.
Consider this a “call to arms” if you will for those of you who aren’t delusional enough to think that such idiocy is an effective plan for preserving our Second Amendment rights.
A treaty signed by former President Bill Clinton, but never ratifed by the Senate, is now under consideration by many members of the Senate, as well as having the enthusiastic support of President Barack Obama.
If this treaty is ratifed by the Senate, kiss the Second Amendment goodbye.
First, watch the video below as Lou Dobbs speaks of it.
Then click on the link below it to see for yourself the backdoor tactic the gun grabbers will use to invalidate your right to keep and bear arms.
Last of all click on the link below that for contact information for your member of Congress, pick up the damn phone and tell them in no uncertain terms that if they support this bill they are committing political suicide.
The way this administration rams through new legislation, the time to act is NOW!
Don’t wait for, or count on, the NRA to do it for you.
Click Here for the the phone numbers of your members of Congress and make your voice heard.
Rahm Emanuel’s Plan To Disarm America
April 23, 2009
“Assault” weapons bans.
A return of the “Brady Bill.”
And the implication that anyone who belongs to the NRA is a terrorist.
Not only is this man WAY off base, but the idiots that are applauding his words are just as bad!
If any of the Kool-Aid drinkers in the audience had the brains of a goldfish, they would know that the statistics he quotes near the end of the video are outright lies!
How do you gun control zealots reconcile being so concerned about an issue when you don’t know a damn thing about the truth of it?
Barack Obama’s Gun Control Czar
April 19, 2009
Even before he was officially nominated, Barack Obama’s campaign was working to create a “presidential transition team” headed by a poweful member of what has been called a “government in exile”, a man seen as the ultimate Washington insider, totally beholden to globalist gun ban billionare George Soros.
That man is John Podesta, Bill Clinton`s former White House chief of staff–his point man on gun control, who coordinated federal extortionist lawsuits against the firearm industry and Clinton`s failed last-ditch effort to garner universal firearm-owner licensing.
Today, Podesta is a linchpin in a murky network of radical left-wing political…Read the rest of this entry
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