Posted on 12/15/2014 10:45:19 AM PST by Kaslin
Fed up with the passage of an 18½-page incoherent, rambling, unconstitutional gun control initiative that was bankrolled by billionaires, gun owners across Washington state held the largest felony civil disobedience rally in the nation’s history, brazenly titled “I Will Not Comply.” No one was hurt and no stores were looted. Between 1,000 and 3,000 lawful gun owners showed up openly armed at the state capitol in Olympia, Wash., on Saturday to defy the newly passed gun control law, I-594.
Organizer Gavin Seim made the extraordinary nature of the rally very clear, "This isn’t just a protest. We are here to openly violate the law." Attendees publicly transferred their guns to each other in violation of I-591’s background check provisions, and some even bought and sold guns just a few feet away from law enforcement. A fire pit blazed throughout the rally, and at the conclusion, gun owners lined up to burn their concealed weapons permits. A petition was circulated affirming gun owners’ refusal to follow I-594, which ended with, “We pledge our blood. We will not comply.”
As the RSVPs in advance of the rally grew to over 6,000, the police - most who probably detest I-594 - decided not to enforce the law. The Washington State Patrol announced there would be no arrests for exchanging guns - not even for selling guns. Seim refused to obtain a permit to hold the rally, citing the right of people to peaceably assemble.
The rally could not be dismissed as fringe elements. Several lawmakers and lawmen spoke, including former Graham County Sheriff Richard Mack of Arizona, Washington State Rep. Elizabeth Scott (R-Monroe) and Rep. Graham Hunt (R-Orting), who sported an AR-15 during his speech. Mack advised gun owners engaging in civil disobedience to “put your sheriff next to you to keep it peaceful.” Scott defiantly explained in her speech, “I will not comply with I-594 because it is unconstitutional, unenforceable and unjust. It is impossible to enforce this law unless there is a police officer on every back porch and in every living room. So it will be enforced selectively.” She noted that Founding Father Alexander Hamilton said any law that violates the Constitution is not valid, and there is a moral obligation to disobey unjust laws.
Seim, a political activist and congressional candidate, wrote on his website, “Today I become an OUTLAW! Arrest me! I will NOT comply.” He led the rally peacefully, and at one point asked everyone attending to kneel with him in prayer. As he led the crowd in the Pledge of Allegiance, he stressed, “I am not pledging obedience to the government, it is to the Republic. We don’t ask for our rights, and we don’t negotiate for our rights. We will take America back.”
Another speaker explained what was happening this way, “We no longer consent nor comply.” Mike Vanderboegh, whose Three Percenter movement is modeled after the three percent of the colonists who fought in the American War of Independence, said that those at the rally are the resistance behind enemy lines. The resistance is also taking place in a handful of other states with strict gun control laws, where patriots are now smuggling in weapons illegally. Vanderboegh told attendees, “This is the tyranny the Founding Fathers warned us about. Tyranny can be voted into existence by a majority. We will not fire the first shot, but if need be, we will fire the last.”
Gun control zealots have finally gone too far. Gun owners are now discovering that the police in New York are using gun control laws to confiscate guns from family members within days after their owners pass away. Hundreds of thousands of gun owners in Connecticut and New York who failed to register their AR-15s earlier this year are now felons. Requiring the registration of guns or requiring background checks, as I-594 does, allows the government to compile a list of gun owners, which can be used later for confiscation.
If guns cause crime, then why wasn’t there a single mishap, considering there were 1,000 or so guns present and hundreds of violations of felony law taking place? Tellingly, Washington State Trooper Guy Gill predicted beforehand, “"Most of these folks are responsible gun owners. We probably will not have an issue." The truth is, the state capitol was probably the safest place in the state last Saturday.
Patriots have had enough. The Second Amendment is gradually being eroded, state by state, and gun owners are not going to lie down and give up their arms. A handful of billionaires and elitists in blue cities like Seattle do not respect the Constitution nor represent the vast majority of Americans. Another rally in Olympia is planned for January 15, and another one in Spokane on December 20. The Second Amendment Foundation, headquartered in Bellevue, intends to sue the state over I-594, and will be lobbying the legislature to get the law changed or repealed. Washington state is now ground zero for patriotic gun owners resisting tyranny, which is at a tipping point since law enforcement does not intend to enforce I-594. What happens next?
The time the new law will result in a charge and prosecution is when an illegally transferred firearm is subsequently used in a crime.
The Feds only require a background check on guns bought at retail gun shops and inside gun shows in some states. Private sales between individuals no.
I buy and sell cameras inside and outside of shows without a license or background check.
And Nikons don’t even have their own Amendment!
So, you don’t think that once a government accrues to itself the power and ability to abuse you it won’t do so for political purposes?
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"No one was hurt and no stores were looted."
Yahoo!
So when my hunting group is climbing into the back of a pickup to try our luck somewhere else and I hand my rifle to someone already in the truck for safety while I climb in, we have both become felons?
Thank the Lord, there really are people here who have backbones.
There will be more of this.
straight into the heart of the liberal agenda.
Precedence has been set.
The authorities have made the law unenforceable by deciding to not act when a clear violation of the law was done en masse with law enforcement watching AND announcing they would not act to enforce the law.
Lawyers will line up to represent anyone who is charged with breaking this law in the future. It's a slam dunk win.
According to the wording of I-594, yep.
The elites have gone over the bend as far as violating our freedom, and it looks like America is not blindly following them anymore.
If we (the tea party) could only get the left to understand that the disrespect for and the violation of the constitution is behind police officers being trained with an itchy trigger finger and courts and Federal government being careless about our bill of rights, we could really make progress towards turning this ship around.
Socialism is what we have now and it is not the answer - culturally, politically nor economically!
Courage in the face of tyranny. We can only hope to see more of this among our people.
Every person in attendance is a Patriot.
Sales through Federal Firearms Licensees, new or used, require a NICS background check. A sale neighbor to neighbor does not. Except now in Washington state. Except not on the capitol steps last Saturday in Olympia.
Take that...hahahahaha
This is very similar to what "THEY" have done to many military bases…for instance the Navy Yard shooter incident in Washington DC: military personnel were not allowed to carry weapons; only guards, AND cellphones with cameras were not allowed so no one was able to call for help, or let their family know they were safe.
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