The carrying of weapons by civilians was left in place by the founders in the Constitution because there was so little amounts of law enforcement people to protect citizens. And as far up as militias was included in that thought.
So until the government can guarantee that protection while they are defunding and laying off and culling police, then the opportunity and need for protection continues and in many cases increases. The governments take on that responsibility, and arfe paid to do it, and have failed to either stop the violence or get the people to buy into trying to blame the honest gun owners for it.
But they keep trying to limit the ownership of protection partially because it is from them. And bills like this rub the public the wrong way. But they have king county and anything from anyone else to back them. It’ll pass. And then we wait for the next destruction of protection.
Many remember CHAZ, or CHOP, up here so we have first hand experience as to how far it can go. The police couldn’t stop it, just limit it...kind of. And they were lucky, it could have expanded and many could have been killed. And it’s bills like this that create the opportunty for a return engagment they, again, won’t be able to control and this time possibly even contain. And you can easily replace the word possibly with likely.
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“An honest statesman need not fear an armed populace’’- Thomas Jefferson.