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Bullets Fly All Over Blue State’s Highways After It Clamped Down On Guns
Daily Caller ^ | 2/10/24 | BRANDON POULTER

Posted on 02/10/2024 5:45:37 PM PST by CFW

Democratic Washington Gov. Jay Inslee signed one of the nation’s most restrictive gun laws in 2023, and now highway shootings are surging in the state.

Over 50 models of guns are banned under the legislation, including popular rifles such as AR-15s and M-16s, and the Democratic Legislature wants to crack down further with several more gun control bills in the body. The state is now seeing a surge in highway shootings, with more than a dozen reported on state highways since the beginning of the year, according to KOMO News.

There have been over 190 reported “shooting incidents” in the state year to date as of Friday, Washington State Police (WSP) told the DCNF. Of these, nine are freeway shooting incidents from the Seattle area that are actively under investigation.

The number of reported shooting incidents in 2023 was similar, at 199 by this time last year, WSP told the DCNF.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; banglist; constitution; crime; firearms; idiots
Yeah, that is what happens when you "defund" your police and prevent law-abiding citizens from carrying firearms for their protection. The criminals feel emboldened to commit whatever crimes they wish and they all carry firearms. Because...and get this....they are criminals and do not obey laws.
1 posted on 02/10/2024 5:45:37 PM PST by CFW
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This happens everywhere and every time law abiding citizens are deprived of arms.

The perps are guaranteed free hand and no return fire, at least not from lawful carriers, only other crooks to contend with.

2 posted on 02/10/2024 5:49:02 PM PST by going hot (Happiness is a Momma Deuce)
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To: CFW

Is Inslee ever on the highways?😎


3 posted on 02/10/2024 6:06:20 PM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: CFW

It reminds me of the episode “The Anvil Chorus” from The Rifleman. The town marshal appoints someone to fill in for him in his absence, and the person promptly posts a “no gun” notice and starts a confiscation process.

Three outlaws soon arrive and find the town defenseless. It’s not hard to figure out what happens next.


4 posted on 02/10/2024 6:06:40 PM PST by scott7278 (Those who beat their swords into plowshares usually end up plowing for those who kept their swords.)
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"Over 50 models of guns are banned under the legislation, including popular rifles such as AR-15s"

Daily Caller -- LIAR

They are not banned only the sale is banned.

5 posted on 02/10/2024 6:11:36 PM PST by steve86 (Numquam accusatus, numquam ad curiam ibit, numquam ad carcerem™)
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To: CFW
including popular rifles such as AR-15s and M-16s,

Laughing at Brandon.

6 posted on 02/10/2024 6:11:59 PM PST by PAR35
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To: Bonemaker

I doubt that Inslee ever buys his own groceries or pumps his own gas.


7 posted on 02/10/2024 6:34:49 PM PST by Noumenon (You're not voting your way out of this. KTF)
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Or is not EVER without several armed-to-the-teeth guards!


8 posted on 02/10/2024 6:50:11 PM PST by Taxman ((SAVE AMERICA! VOTE REPUBLICAN IN 2024! SAVE AMERICA!))
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To: Noumenon

PS Inslee is IMPORTANT, dontchaknw!


9 posted on 02/10/2024 6:50:47 PM PST by Taxman ((SAVE AMERICA! VOTE REPUBLICAN IN 2024! SAVE AMERICA!))
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To: Taxman

OOPS!

“dontchaknow!”


10 posted on 02/10/2024 6:51:32 PM PST by Taxman ((SAVE AMERICA! VOTE REPUBLICAN IN 2024! SAVE AMERICA!))
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I lived on the east hill of unincorporated Kent for 5 years. Seeing how the natives drive out there, it is not surprising that there are a lot of highway shootings. Western Washington is the one place where I have lived or driven in this country where the "Keep Right Except To Pass" sign should be displayed more than it is.

It seemed like a rule that drivers there get into the left lane in order to slow down.

11 posted on 02/10/2024 7:15:07 PM PST by Bernard (We honor veterans who fought to keep this country from turning into what it now is. --Argus Hamilton)
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“Democratic Washington Gov. Jay Inslee”

nope
Democrat Marxist fascist WA Ruler Jay Inslee.
WA has gone full communist


12 posted on 02/10/2024 7:21:18 PM PST by A strike (Words can have gender, humans cannot.)
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3. Inslee is too busy turning Washington into a MARXIST state to fight crime.


13 posted on 02/10/2024 9:00:40 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (Figures a)
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I think that the real problem is a combination of other laws (police can't generally do high speed chases), underfunded police who have not staff time to investigate most crimes, and the rise of violent drug gang activity in the state.

I don't think that the rise in highway shoots has much of anything to do with laws restrictive assault weapons. By the way in the Soviet of Washington the woke laws are so convoluted that by legal definition a tubular magazine 22 LR semiautomatic rifle is an assault rifle. You know one of the weapons of mass destruction and military weapon of war!

14 posted on 02/11/2024 12:08:04 AM PST by Robert357
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This was predicted to happen when Texas made it legal to carry a gun in your car without a permit. Road rage shootings were supposed to skyrocket, except........they didn’t. The numbers plummeted.

Leftists are wrong about everything. They want to raise taxes and ban guns.

History proves tax cuts increase revenue and an armed society is a polite society.

EC


15 posted on 02/11/2024 2:01:02 AM PST by Ex-Con777
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would love to see a perp walk of all these pukes killing this country


16 posted on 02/11/2024 3:09:31 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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They refuse to punish juveniles. That’s who is responsible for this insanity. A version of the “Kia Bois” phenomenon.


17 posted on 02/11/2024 6:46:46 AM PST by bigfootbob (Arm Up and Live Free!)
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To: Taxman

They’re called The Washington State Patrol. They’re tasked with that losers protection.


18 posted on 02/11/2024 6:48:36 AM PST by bigfootbob (Arm Up and Live Free!)
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***and now highway shootings are surging in the state. ****

BAN CARS! That will fix it!


19 posted on 02/11/2024 8:38:18 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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