{"id":50876,"date":"2016-01-19T18:26:34","date_gmt":"2016-01-19T23:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/?p=50876"},"modified":"2026-05-17T22:13:49","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T03:13:49","slug":"washington-governor-calls-nra-supporters-destructive-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/washington-governor-calls-nra-supporters-destructive-force\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Governor calls NRA, Supporters &#8216;Destructive Force&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Governor-Jay-Inslee-D-.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"washington-governor-calls-nra-supporters-destructive-force\" title=\"Washington Governor calls NRA, Supporters 'Destructive Force'\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Washington Governor calls NRA, Supporters 'Destructive Force'\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-50878 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Governor-Jay-Inslee-D-.jpg\" alt=\"Washington Governor calls NRA, Supporters 'Destructive Force'\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Governor-Jay-Inslee-D-.jpg 960w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Governor-Jay-Inslee-D--150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Governor-Jay-Inslee-D--400x267.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a>\n<h2>&#8216;A Powerful and Destructive Force&#8217;<\/h2>\n<p>The NRA-ILA has condemned Washington state Governor Jay Inslee after he called the NRA and its supporters a &#8220;destructive force&#8221; in a recent call to raise support for new gun control measures at home.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Enough is enough,&#8221; said Inslee in his attack email. &#8220;Gun violence is a public health crisis in this country, and here in Washington state, we&#8217;re going to address this problem\u2014right now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Make no mistake, the NRA and their friends in the gun lobby are a powerful and destructive force,&#8221; said Inslee. &#8220;We must stand together to demand a reduction in preventable <a href=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/buy-guns-not-gold-a-better-investment-in-the-age-of-uncertainty\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"washington-governor-calls-nra-supporters-destructive-force\" title=\"Washington Governor calls NRA, Supporters 'Destructive Force'\">gun violence<\/a> here in Washington state\u2026That means standing up to the NRA and their high-powered friends.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In response the NRA-ILA issued this statement saying &#8220;The Governor is using law-abiding gun owners as a scapegoat for his failure to provide any practical solutions that would deal with crime and mental health issues in the state of Washington. Current laws do not need to be &#8216;strengthened,&#8217; but they do need to be enforced.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2>See Also: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/obama-unveils-executive-orders-to-reduce-gun-violence\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"washington-governor-calls-nra-supporters-destructive-force\" title=\"Washington Governor calls NRA, Supporters 'Destructive Force'\">Obama Unveils Executive Orders to \u2018Reduce Gun Violence\u2019<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>Recently Inslee announced his intentions to expand existing <a href=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/state-lawmakers-launch-new-gun-control-organization\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"washington-governor-calls-nra-supporters-destructive-force\" title=\"Washington Governor calls NRA, Supporters 'Destructive Force'\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"5254\">state gun control<\/a> laws through executive orders. \u201cWhile Congress has failed for years to make progress on reducing gun violence, we are not afraid to take action in Washington state,\u201d said Inslee at a press conference, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/seattle-news\/politics\/inslee-calls-for-strengthening-background-checks-of-gun-buyers\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"washington-governor-calls-nra-supporters-destructive-force\" title=\"Washington Governor calls NRA, Supporters 'Destructive Force'\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reports the Seattle Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He intends to double down and use the Obama\/Bloomberg playbook to place even further restrictions on the Second Amendment rights of Washingtonians,&#8221; said the NRA-ILA.<\/p>\n<p>Inslee has argued for data-driven methods to reduce gun violence and suicides, although some have called it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.examiner.com\/article\/did-governor-s-grandstanding-just-jeopardize-real-gun-safety-work\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"washington-governor-calls-nra-supporters-destructive-force\" title=\"Washington Governor calls NRA, Supporters 'Destructive Force'\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a flawed approached<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Gun rights advocate and Washington resident Alan Gottlieb criticized the governor saying that &#8220;he and the gun industry have been working for the past year with suicide-prevention advocates on strategies including safe storage and keeping guns away from criminals and people with mental illness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen he starts mandating through executive action gun-control measures, he\u2019s going to sabotage all the efforts of the past year to lower suicide rates,\u201d said Gottlieb.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NRA-ILA has condemned Washington state Governor Jay Inslee after he called the NRA and its supporters a &#8220;destructive force&#8221; in a recent call to raise support for new gun control measures at home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":50878,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_specdata_upc":"","_specdata_placement":"manual","footnotes":""},"categories":[244,25,461],"tags":[132,469,607,309,122],"featured":[],"hunt365":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-50876","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-2nd-amendment-r2kba","8":"category-current-events","9":"category-max-slowik","10":"tag-buzz","11":"tag-gun-control","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-nra","14":"tag-r2kba"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.6.1 (Yoast SEO v27.7) - 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