Seattle's mayor is up in arms about guns

L.A. Times ^ | 11/25/2008 | Kim Murphy

[BuckeyeTexan]

{Snip} The shootings, in a city where sporadic but horrific incidents of violent street crime rattle its culture of progressive cool, sent Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels on a mission: banning guns on city property, including at parks, sporting events and street fairs. Next month, he will hold a public hearing on his executive order.

{Snip}

After a Supreme Court ruling in June that the 2nd Amendment explicitly protects Americans' right to own guns for self-defense, gun rights advocates are gearing up for a new round of court cases in California, Chicago and elsewhere. The cases will determine how far the justices' decision striking down the District of Columbia's handgun ban can be extended to state and local governments.

In Seattle, the battle will be over a Washington state law that specifically reserves the "entire field of firearms regulation" to the state. Last month, the state attorney general's office issued an opinion that Nickels could not legally preempt state law with the handgun ban.

No matter. The mayor's staff announced Friday that he was proceeding with a public hearing Dec. 15 to take testimony on the proposed administrative rule that would go into effect next spring, making anyone entering city property with a gun guilty of criminal trespassing.

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[thecabal]

Who cares about the Constitution, huh Nickles?

[pissant]

How about arresting all the little gang bangers, legal and illegal, that you’ve allowed to fester in your city, you POS mayor?

[Lurker]

Simple solution. Carry on ones person a copy of the Washington State Pre-emption Statute and a copy of the Washington State Attorney Generals opinion on the matter.

If one is arrested carrying a firearm in some mayorally un-approved place, hand the arresting officer a copy of those two documents and politely inform them that they've lost their immunity to lawsuits and that you'll sue under 18USC242 (could be 18USC240, too).

Send a certified letter to the Mayor as well and inform him that the City officially and the Mayor personally will be subject to the same suit.

L

[Not A Snowbird]

Ping!

[EGPWS]

The shootings, in a city where sporadic but horrific incidents of violent street crime rattle its culture of progressive cool, sent Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels on a mission:....

To find a mayor for Seattle that has a mindful clue worthy of the position of mayor???

If so, cool!

[MD_Willington_1976]

I have some PDF forms I’d like everyone here to print out and mail to the Honorable, R. McKenna, WA State Attorney General regarding this.

I’m not sure how to host the PDF’s here though.

They are polite and concise letters to the AG for both resident and non residents that may visit Seattle.

MD

[BenLurkin]

banning guns on city property, including at parks, sporting events and street fairs.

Yeah, that'll work.

[sionnsar]

Thanks to SandyInSeattle for the ping.

Say WA? Evergreen State ping

FReepmail sionnsar if you want on or off this ping list.

Ping sionnsar if you see a Washington state related thread.

[anniegetyourgun]

The people who elected this turkey are unarmed....and will continue to suffer at the hands of the criminals. All the while, they’ll wonder why they are targets.

[Clemenza]

In other news, Greg Nickles is still fat and dumb.

[Squantos]

Yer smart.......

[Jack Hammer]

This sort of idiocy just goes on and on and on and on: even the very simplest exercise in elemntary logic is beyond such characters - lawbreakers, by definition, do not observe the law. Ghus, laws restricting firearms only inconvenience the law abiding and have no influence whatsoever on thugs.

[M1911A1]

I don’t go to Seattle if at all possible. I’m thinking of sending messages to a bunch of retailers in the city that I don’t patronize them because the Mayor is a gun hating ignoramous.

[MD_Willington_1976]

Go here

http://www.thehighroad.us/showpost.php?p=5039951&postcount=22

or

http://www.thehighroad.org/showpost.php?p=5105292&postcount=44

print out the applicable letter and send it to the WA State AG, any resident of the US can fill out the appropriate letter.

[ponygirl]

My brother and his uber-liberal wife live in Seattle. She "doesn't believe in" guns. (My thought: "What, is that like believing in the Tooth Fairy?") We had this conversation one of the very first times we ever met:

Her: "We should ban guns, like they do in Canada."

Me: "Great idea! Then the only people who have guns will be the criminals."

Her: (stunned look of disbelief) "Well... I guess that's one way of looking at it."

[Lurker]

Yer smart.......

I may not be all that smart, but I do learn.

L

[basil]

Ping!

[Lurker]

One cannot access the link you posted without being an approved member of that forum.

[whiterhino]

bump for later