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In the wake of a triple homicide at a Mount Baker hookah lounge, Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell faces criticism from the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA).
The group suggests Harrell used the tragedy to challenge Washington State’s firearms preemption law.
Instead of urging collaboration with the police, Harrell reportedly emphasized ending state preemption over firearms, a move that CCRKBA believes affects law-abiding citizens and won’t prevent tragedies.
Alan Gottlieb, Chairman of CCRKBA, recalls Harrell’s 2015 stint on the city council, during which the city controversially taxed gun and ammunition sales.
Gottlieb notes the subsequent doubling of homicides in Seattle and alleges a failure in generating anticipated tax revenues. He stresses the need to target criminals rather than guns.
“Mayor Harrell seems to forget that Seattle did adopt a policy—the gun tax—on the promise it would help prevent gun-related violence and the past eight years have shown it to be a total failure,” said Gottlieb. “Instead of talking about getting guns off the street, how about focusing on getting criminals off the street?
Despite this, Harrell states on his official website that Seattle police are urgently working to apprehend the suspects. He promotes a “holistic approach” to combatting citywide violent crime.
“The mayor and city council can take any approach they desire,” Gottlieb observed, “but when they promote and adopt social policies which the public, especially the criminal element, see as soft on crime, at the end of the day all they are doing is pontificating.
“Preemption has provided uniformity in state gun laws for nearly 40 years, and what seems to escape Mayor Harrell and other gun control advocates is that you cannot prevent violent crime by penalizing people who don’t commit crime, or by repealing a law which protects the rights of law-abiding gun owners from one state border to the other,” he concluded.
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Preemption has provided uniformity in state gun laws for nearly 40 years.
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Too bad the citizens of eastern Washington and eastern Oregon can’t get together – split their two states in two along the mountain divide – form a new state – and let western Washington and western Oregon fester together.
New State line. Along the top of the Cascades.