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King County {Seattle} proposal would require gun stores to post warnings about suicide, homicide
seattletimes.com ^ | July 23, 2018 | Daniel Beekman

Posted on 07/24/2018 6:01:59 AM PDT by PROCON

King County could require stores that sell guns to post signs at the door and cash register warning that owning a firearm increases the risk of suicide, homicide and other deaths.

Metropolitan King County Council Chairman Joe McDermott is proposing the new regulation, which would be enacted and enforced by the King County Board of Health.

The measure is the latest in a series advanced by local politicians and activists who say gun violence is a public-health crisis and should be dealt with as such.

Washington State Initiative 1639, which is likely to appear on the November ballot, would require gun-purchase applications to include a similar warning about the risk of death — a little like the Surgeon General’s warning on packs of cigarettes.

"Over 35,000 Americans die by firearms each year, and we need to take all the steps we possibly can to protect those who live in King County,” McDermott said, comparing gun deaths to highway fatalities.

(Excerpt) Read more at seattletimes.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: banglist; bluezones; gunsigns; kingcounty; nannystate; seattle
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To: PROCON

People in Seattle are like: they commit suicide because they’re afraid of dying; that’s their mentality.


21 posted on 07/24/2018 7:01:19 AM PDT by SkyDancer ( ~ Just Consider Me A Random Fact Generator ~ Eat Sleep Fly Repeat ~)
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To: Widget Jr
No, the article is about King County's proposed gun sign law.

I-1639 is only an also mention.

22 posted on 07/24/2018 7:11:25 AM PDT by PROCON ('Progressive' is a Euphemism for Totalitarian)
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To: jeffersondem
It used to be known as King County until government leaders decided they did not like the historical connotations of the name. So they voted to rename the county, King County. Look it up.

What does that even mean? Used to be King so they renamed it King?
23 posted on 07/24/2018 7:24:27 AM PDT by Cheerio
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To: Cheerio; jeffersondem

Apparently, they changed the NAMESAKE, not the name. From William Rufus King (who was Vice President when the Washington Territory was created in 1853) to MLK.


24 posted on 07/24/2018 7:30:28 AM PDT by MortMan (The white board is a remarkable invention.)
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To: Cheerio
King County was 'rechristened' for MLK Jr.

The original King was a cisgendered white guy. 😀😀

25 posted on 07/24/2018 7:30:50 AM PDT by PROCON ('Progressive' is a Euphemism for Totalitarian)
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To: PROCON

A warning about suicide would just make me shake my head in disbelief.A warning about homicide would stiffen my resolve to buy a firearm.


26 posted on 07/24/2018 8:04:20 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (You Say "White Privilege"...I Say "Protestant Work Ethic")
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To: PROCON

“King County was ‘rechristened’ for MLK Jr.
The original King was a cisgendered white guy. “

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OMG.that’s about the funniest thing I have read today-——so far.

Liberals are NUTS!

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27 posted on 07/24/2018 8:10:54 AM PDT by Mears
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To: PROCON

Soooo...are they going to also have signs at Home Depot and Lowes about ROPE? Or, how about the stores with Knives? Sheesh.


28 posted on 07/24/2018 8:24:00 AM PDT by goodnesswins (White Privilege EQUALS Self Control & working 50-80 hrs/wk for 40 years!)
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To: Cheerio
“What does that even mean? Used to be King so they renamed it King?”

What it means is that liberals are fundamentally dishonest; they are despoilers of the truth; and place emotions and immediate gratification over all else - including life other than their own.

29 posted on 07/24/2018 8:29:34 AM PDT by jeffersondem
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To: PROCON

All liquor stores must then post about drunk driving & depression.

All grocery stores & restaurants of all kinds must post about obesity, diabetes, heart issues, and other health problems.

Victoria’s Secret would have to post about being so provacative that you could be assaulted.

I could go on & on.


30 posted on 07/24/2018 8:49:12 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: coloradan; PROCON

The comedic aspect of this is that they’ll then have to supply the same warnings to most products in hardware stores, cutlery, etc.


31 posted on 07/24/2018 9:56:16 AM PDT by Silentgypsy ( “If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.”__Scorpion)
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To: PROCON

Would love for them to cite how many times current firearms laws have stopped crime committed with firearms.


32 posted on 07/24/2018 12:15:21 PM PDT by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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To: ridesthemiles

I could go on & on.
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I tell the fools that taking my gun to stop shootings is about as good an idea as him chopping off his ‘tallywacker’ will stop rapes and sexual assaults.

‘Normal first response is ‘that is stupid, I never raped or assaulted anyone’

“Well if I take your word for it, you have raped as many people as I have shot”

Then just walk away while they ‘digest’ that. Not worth the energy ‘arguing’ with the idiots.


33 posted on 07/24/2018 12:38:59 PM PDT by xrmusn ((6/98)""If bacon kills you and smoking kills you, How come you smoke bacon to cure it?")
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To: PROCON
Also suicide signs in front of all the hardware stores,gas stations,car lots,pool supplies,Lowes,etc,etc.etc.....
34 posted on 07/24/2018 12:42:05 PM PDT by 4yearlurker ("There stands mother under the oleanders,open the windows." A dying cowboys last words,1879.)
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To: Widget Jr

This initiative is already being challenged in a lawsuit due to the fact that it directly gives lat s the state’s initiative statute which says any initiative can only cover one single subject. It also is against the state’s preemptive n law.


35 posted on 07/24/2018 7:08:44 PM PDT by rickomatic
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