by DCG
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee speaks, Thursday, Feb. 2, 2017, at the Capitol in Olympia, Wash. Inslee was urging the passage of bills enforcing safe gun storage and enhanced background checks when buying or selling assault weapons. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren) ORG XMIT: WATW110
At the end of May this year I did a blog post entitled, “How’s that gun control working in Washington State since new laws were passed?”
I outlined how presidential candidate demorat Gov. Jay Inslee signed a bunch of new gun control laws on May 7 claiming that they would “improve gun safety overall.”
The new laws included:
Statutory law prohibits firearms to persons under 21 years of age.
Police may temporarily seize guns from people a judge deems a threat to themselves or others.
In November 2018, voters approved I-1639 that includes increased background checks, firearm safety training, waiting periods before semiautomatic assault rifles may be purchased or delivered, and require certain secured firearm storage or trigger-locks, and criminalize certain firearm storage if it results in unauthorized use.
Of course these laws did NOTHING to stop criminals. As I noted in my post, “Seattle had more than one reported shooting a day somewhere in the city during the month of May; two of those incidents resulted in death.”
Guess the criminals missed the memo because gun violence continues in Washington state:
Deputies increase patrols in White Center after ‘insane number of bullets’ fired
Police: Man shot multiple times in Capitol Hill
Seattle police investigate shooting near Cal Anderson Park
Two injured, home hit by gunfire in separate weekend shootings in Bellevue
Five killed, 2 in custody in Washington state shootings
Road rage incident leads to shooting in Mill Creek
1 person hurt, 2 detained in midday shooting in downtown Seattle
One dead, man in custody in Redmond shooting
DCG