Quote of the Day
Not one Republican voted for HB 1163. Washington Democrats built a permit that costs $126, demands a class the state refuses to teach, and disqualifies much of the workforce capable of teaching it. When your own implementing agency has to publicly concede the mandatory step cannot be met, the failure belongs to the people who wrote the law, not the ones handed the clipboard.
JASON RANTZ
September 14, 2026
Washington gun permit collapsed before it even started
I’m reminded of certain types of personality disorders (borderline personality disorder, and possibly others). They will create unwinnable situations for the people around them and when there is a conflict or something goes wrong, they will insist they are never at fault.
You can point out the laws of physics would have to be violated to accomplish what they demand of you and their response will not be to modify their demands. It will something on the order of, “You’ll just have to figure it out.”
See also It is Always Someone Else’s Fault.
“… the mandatory step cannot be met…” — the article does not make the obvious conclusion that this is by design, not by mistake.