I checked to see where my blog posts rank when you do a search for #I1639. I found the results interesting:
Make of that whatever you want.
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You can’t be forced to give up one right to exercise another.
See also this post from yesterday.
Donate your time and money to fund efforts (as I have also done) to defeat I-1639.
Via email from Mike C. we have notice of another League of Women Voters event which includes I-1639. Here is what Mike sent me:
There is also the event notification on their website:
| Saturday, October 20, 2018 10:00 am |
Tacoma Public Library Downtown 1102 Tacoma Ave. S. Tacoma, WA 98402 |
Ballot Issue Forum. This public forum features explanations and speakers pro and con on the main ballot issues for the November ballot. This includes three Pierce County Charter amendments, four statewide Initiatives, City of Tacoma Proposition 1 and Pierce County Rural Libraries Proposition. No charge. |
I have a previous commitment and will not be attending.
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Donate your time and money to fund efforts (as I have also done) to defeat I-1639.
The big thrust is making sure it is at least as hard to purchase a semi-automatic assault rifle as it already to purchase a handgun.
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The reality is, initiative 1639 will not end gun violence. It will not stop all gun violence, but it will cut at some of the really big components of it.
Stephen Paolini
Campaign Manager of the ‘Yes on 1639’ campaign
October 17, 2018
Voters to decide fate of Washington’s gun control initiative this Nov.
[Read the article. Notice the complete lack of mention by Paolini for the right of the people to keep and bear arms? That is because he doesn’t care about your rights.
The “big thrust” is against “semi-automatic assault rifles”? Suppose this law were wildly successful and there were no more murders in Washington state committed with rifles of any type. How many lives would be saved compared to the murders committed with other weapons?
It turns out that in 2017 Washington had one murder attributed to the use of a rifle, 75 to the use of handguns, 36 to the use of a knife or cutting instrument, and 18 to hands, fists, feet, etc. This fact is from the 2017 FBI Uniform Crime Report.
So, how can Paolini believe restricting access to a subset of the rifles can “cut at some of the really big components” of “gun violence”? The only way this can be true is if he believes one is a “really big component” of 76. It is true that these type of people have serious problems with comprehending numbers, but is much more likely an alternate hypothesis is true.
Stephen Paolini is a liar and has complete disregard for the rights of others.
So, you have to ask yourself, what is his true motivation?
Do not trust anything to do with this scumbag.—Joe]
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Stolen from Don B:
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If I-1639 Vote is No
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If I-1639
Vote Is Yes
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Bob Smails, a repeat felon, buys a semiautomatic
rifle and uses it to kill a clerk and a customer while robbing a convenience store.
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Bob Smails, a repeat felon, buys a semiautomatic
rifle and uses it to kill a clerk and a customer while robbing a convenience store.
Nothing
changes here. Criminals do not obey gun laws.
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Disabled 20 year old veteran Latisha Robbins lives
in an area with a significant crime problem due to persistent financial difficulties. Too young to purchase a handgun, she purchases a light AR15, a firearm with which she became familiar during her military service.
When drug addict Jerry Randall breaks into her
home, he hurriedly flees when Latisha points the rifle at him and click off the safety.
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Disabled 20 year old veteran Latisha Robbins lives
in an area with a significant crime problem due to persistent financial difficulties. Too young to purchase a handgun or an effective rifle for self defense, she is forced to hope that police officers respond in time to her 911 call.
When drug addict Jerry Randall breaks into her
home, what he does to her causes the responding officer to cry in his wife’s arms, after finding Latisha’s body.
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Retired bookstore owner Jerry Rodriguez has been
planning for a hunting trip across the country for over a year. Two weeks before departure, he is sighting it in at the range and accidentally drops it, badly damaging the action.
Chagrined at this misfortune, he is still able to
purchase a used Browning BAR hunting rifle from a store that conducts a background check before selling it to him. The rifle is sighted in and his hunting trip is saved.
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Retired bookstore owner Jerry Rodriguez has been
planning for a hunting trip across the country for over a year. Two weeks before departure, he is sighting it in at the range and accidentally drops it, badly damaging the action.
Chagrined at this misfortune, goes to his local gun
store and tries to purchase a used Browning BAR hunting rifle from a store. Despite his clean background and possession of a Concealed Pistol License (which would exempt him from a handgun waiting period, though not a redundant background check), Jerry is unable to purchase the BAR. I-1639’s 10 BUSINESS DAY waiting period does not exempt CPL holders. It also requires proof of having completed a training course….without specifying the contents of that course, who will offer it and requiring that it be reasonably prices an accessible to all.
Law enforcement officers are also governed by this
completely undefined process.
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Bob Kowalski loses his 70 year old mother to
cancer, just before Christmas. It has been a hard year for Bob, who is recently divorced, and he finds it difficult to keep depression at bay. However, he finds solace in competitive shooting and finds a good therapist who has Bob use a mild dose of an anti-depression medication for a year. Fortunately, he ultimately overcomes the depression.
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Bob Kowalski loses his 70 year old mother to
cancer, just before Christmas. It has been a hard year for Bob, who is recently divorced, and he finds it difficult to keep depression at bay. However, he finds solace in competitive shooting and finds a good therapist who has Bob use a mild dose of an anti-depression medication for a year. Fortunately, he ultimately overcomes the depression.
Unfortunately, a couple years later the state
legislature adds every person who has ever used any amount of anti-depression medication to the list of persons unable to legally own any firearms. Bob’s purchase of a rifle under I-1639 gave the state the means to circumvent HIPAA’s privacy protections and access his medical records at any point in the future. As a result of his brief anti-depressant use, all of Bob’s firearms are confiscated.
Another consequence of this is that a large number
of people battling depression avoid seeking help to deal with that depression and even suicidal thoughts. Some end up taking their own lives.
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Anne Holms is a former single mom whose kids have
grown and moved away. She keeps a pistol for self protection and is conscientious about keeping it locked when she is not using it. Unfortunately, the locked container is stolen from her home during a break-in while she is away.
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Anne Holms is a former single mom whose kids have
grown and moved away. She keeps a pistol for self protection and is conscientious about keeping it locked when she is not using it. Unfortunately, the locked container is stolen from her home during a break-in while she is away.
Under I-1639, Anne is guilty of community
endangerment and is prosecuted as a criminal when her gun is stolen and used in a robbery where a clerk is shot.
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Washington state continues a precarious financial
juggling act, not helped by an Attorney General and Governor repeatedly engaging in spurious, contrived lawsuits against the Federal government.
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Washington state continues a precarious financial
juggling act, not helped by an Attorney General and Governor repeatedly engaging in spurious, contrived lawsuits against the Federal government.Making matters worse the Attorney General and courts will be untangling this initiative in the courts for decades. For example, the storage requirement is clearly overruled by the storage findings of the landmark Heller case of 10 years ago. It will cost the state millions….paid for by peeved taxpayers.
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Cabelas hires 10 additional seasonal employees from
early November until just after Christmas.
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Cabelas hires less seasonal employees during the
holiday season and lays off 2 permanent employees due to the financial chaos wrought by this overly broad and clumsy initiative.
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The state legislature continues to occasionally
consider firearms laws. As has become virtually a tradition, gun control activists are given prior notice of hearing dates and are bused in and issued color-coordinated orange shirts by out of state financier Michael Bloomberg.
They are still outnumbered by gun rights activists
who manage to take off days from work on short notice. Little changes.
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The state legislature continues to occasionally
consider firearms laws. As has become virtually a tradition, gun control activists are given prior notice of hearing dates and are bused in and issued color-coordinated orange shirts by out of state financier Michael Bloomberg.
They are still outnumbered by gun rights activists
who manage to take off days from work on short notice.
However, some things have
changed.
– Democrats have
decided that it is now open season on gun owners and begin constant efforts to enact ever stricter gun laws, like California does. Washington state gun owners, used to a fairly stable set of laws, are left uncertain from one year to the next which of their guns will remain legal
– Some legislation is
passed without real feedback over a weekend, as was attempted in 2018.
– At the same time,
the gun owners who up to now have had a huge stake in obeying all laws conclude that there is no point in doing so.
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Of course, the creators of this initiative view nearly all of this as features and not bugs. An increase in crime and chaos paves the way for more government infringement of our rights.
Vote NO on I1639 and ask your friends, relatives, and neighbors to vote no. Get materials to help get the word out.
Donate your time and money to fund efforts (as I have also done) to defeat I-1639.
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If you want to keep guns out of it he [sic] hands of loons, vote for I-1639.
25cents
October 9, 2018
Comment to Washington’s I-1639 would implement some of the nation’s most stringent gun-control laws
[This is what they think of you.
Also of note is that from reading their comment it is clear they overestimated their worth when they chose a name.—Joe]
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The federal government has established you have to be 21 to purchase a handgun. It seems to me absurd that you can be 18 years old and purchase a group of firearms that, when used in crimes, contribute to 135% more injuries and 37% more deaths.
Stephen Paolini
Campaign Manager at I-1693
Lawsuits to ballot: Washington set for gun control vote
[Fact: In 2017 Washington had one murder attributed to the use of a rifle, 75 to the use of handguns, 36 to the use of a knife or cutting instrument, and 18 to hands, fists, feet, etc. This fact is from the 2017 FBI Uniform Crime Report.
Technically, Paolini may actually be correct. Notice the “when used in crimes” phrase. The thing is, it’s extremely rare for this class of guns to be used in crimes. Paolini is deliberately being extremely deceptive. It is an integral part of the anti-gun culture.—Joe]
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I was reading I-1639 looking for something else and found the following:
(vi) If purchasing a semiautomatic assault rifle, a statement by the applicant under penalty of perjury that the applicant has completed a recognized firearm safety training program within the last five years, as required by subsection (2) of this section.
(b) The application shall contain ((a)) two warnings substantially stated as follows:
(i) CAUTION: Although state and local laws do not differ, federal law and state law on the possession of firearms differ. If you are prohibited by federal law from possessing a firearm, you may be prosecuted in federal court. State permission to purchase a firearm is not a defense to a federal prosecution; and (ii)
CAUTION: The presence of a firearm in the home has been associated with an increased risk of death to self and others, including an increased risk of suicide, death during domestic violence incidents, and unintentional deaths to children and others.
Notice they say “association”, not causation. This is a carefully constructed deception. The association is because people in high risk environments frequently purchase firearms to lower their risk from violent predators. And, of course, the inclusion of “others” was to pad their numbers. “Others” include those violent predators.
And, still, the ownership of a firearm does lower their risk even if the risk is still higher than if they were to lower their risk in other ways such as hiring 24×7 armed guards and/or getting a safer job such as the mayor of New York city instead of doing pizza delivery late at night in the bad part of town. The writers certainly knew that and deliberately used the deceptive language to cause a chilling effect on the exercise of a specific enumerated right. This is unconstitutional.
And I just “love” this section:
The state, local governmental entities, any public or private agency, and the employees of any state or local governmental entity or public or private agency, acting in good faith, are immune from liability:
(a) For failure to prevent the sale or transfer of a firearm to a person whose receipt or possession of the firearm is unlawful;
(b) For preventing the sale or transfer of a firearm to a person who may lawfully receive or possess a firearm;
(c) For issuing a concealed pistol license or alien firearm license to a person ineligible for such a license;
(d) For failing to issue a concealed pistol license or alien firearm license to a person eligible for such a license;
(e) For revoking or failing to revoke an issued concealed pistol license or alien firearm license;
(f) For errors in preparing or transmitting information as part of determining a person’s eligibility to receive or possess a firearm, or eligibility for a concealed pistol license or alien firearm license;
(g) For issuing a dealer’s license to a person ineligible for such a license; or
(h) For failing to issue a dealer’s license to a person eligible for such a license.
Private citizens can be charged with a felony for having their firearms stolen and used in a crime but government officials are immune from liability if they allow a sale to a violent felon to go through or “in good faith” prevent a legitimate sale.
So, all some anti-gun or racist governmental entity has to do is claim they were acting in good faith when they prevent the sale or transfer of a firearm to disfavored group, individual, or even everyone. It does provide for a writ of mandamus with the awarding of attorneys fees if the person denied their rights wins. In addition to the time delayed being a denial of rights for an extended period of time expect people of color and the poor to be the hardest hit.
I also found a loophole for certain issues which I will share, and exploit, privately with people I know and trust well.
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