SUSPECT WORKED WITH GROUP ‘AIMED AT PREVENTING YOUTH GUN VIOLENCE’
BELLEVUE, WA – While Washington state Democrats appear ready to adopt another restrictive gun control scheme affecting only law-abiding citizens, a double-homicide in Seattle over the weekend provides more evidence why the anti-gun ideology is strategically wrong and morally bankrupt, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms has declared.
The man now charged with two counts of first-degree murder in connection to the Capri Hookah Lounge incident is a convicted felon who was on federal probation stemming from a previous gun law conviction. Yet, he is now in jail for allegedly shooting one man at point-blank range, and fatally wounding another in an exchange of gunfire. In a bizarre twist, the suspect is described by his public defender as apparently having worked with a community organization “aimed at preventing youth gun violence,” according to the Seattle Times.
“Democrat lawmakers are pushing a Draconian permit-to-purchase bill right now at the state capitol in Olympia, “ said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb, “which only penalizes honest citizens by impairing their ability to purchase firearms. It would not prevent a criminal from illegally obtaining or carrying a firearm, and they know it, which makes this gun control scheme so morally reprehensible.
“As a strategy for keeping guns out of the wrong hands,” he continued, “House Bill 1163 is, at best, misguided, and at its worst it will be an unmitigated constitutional disaster. While Democrats evidently think gun ownership is a government-regulated privilege, the federal and state constitutions say it is a protected fundamental right.
“In order to implement the outrageous legislation now before the state Senate Ways and Means Committee,” Gottlieb said, “the state will have to spend millions of taxpayer dollars, which it doesn’t have with a multi-billion-dollar deficit, and then spend even more money fighting the inevitable lawsuits which will come from this gun control boondoggle.
“That two men are now dead, and a convicted felon—who reportedly worked with an organization to prevent youth gun violence—is now in jail simply underscores how bereft of common sense the gun control crusade in Washington state has become,” Gottlieb observed. “Existing gun restrictions didn’t stop the suspect from being armed and didn’t prevent two violent murders. And now, anti-gun-rights lawmakers in Olympia can only throw more impairments in the way of law-abiding citizens as their ‘solution’ to such cold-blooded crimes. New restrictions on good people will not prevent bad people from committing crimes, and to believe otherwise borders on insanity.”