BELLEVUE, WA – A new report released Monday by the Washington Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs (WASPC) offers ample evidence that two extremist gun control initiatives, along with additional legislation pushed by Democrat lawmakers, has failed miserably and should be repealed, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said today.
“WASPC data released Monday showing a 96 percent increase in homicides since 2019 is damning proof that billionaire-backed gun control measures were, as we predicted, false pie-in-the-sky promises,” said CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb. “Passage of Initiative 594 in 2014 and I-1639 in 2018 have accomplished nothing other than to create massive impairments, which we believe are unconstitutional, for law-abiding Washington citizens.
“While the billionaires who bankrolled both initiatives were saying these measures would reduce crime,” he recalled, “we were telling people the truth, and the WASPC report vindicates our arguments. WASPC says last year’s 394 murders is the highest number of homicides recorded by the group since 1980.
“And we’re more than one year out from passage of a ban on so-called ‘large-capacity magazines,’ which was a pet project of Democrat Attorney General Bob Ferguson,” Gottlieb added. “Guess what, murders went up last year by 16.6 percent over 2021.
“At this point,” Gottlieb said, “it is fair to ask what good has any of these laws accomplished? These gun control measures have only helped make people less safe, and it should be clear to voters they’ve been deceived by the gun prohibition lobby, which will no doubt try to spin the new report to suggest even stricter measures are necessary.
“In private business,” he added, “if something repeatedly doesn’t work, the plan is scrapped and the company tries something else. If the people responsible refuse to let go, they might be fired. But the anti-gun crowd invariably doubles down, only making things worse.
“It is time to hold these people accountable, and for the Legislature to acknowledge that gun control extremism has been an abject failure. Restrictions created by I-594 and I-1639 can legally be repealed, along with Ferguson’s 2022 ban on magazines and this year’s ban on so-called ‘assault weapons.’ Washington citizens deserve better, and it is time for a change of direction.”
With more than 650,000 members and supporters nationwide, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (www.ccrkba.org) is one of the nation’s premier gun rights organizations. As a non-profit organization, the Citizens Committee is dedicated to preserving firearms freedoms through active lobbying of elected officials and facilitating grass-roots organization of gun rights activists in local communities throughout the United States.
they fear the 3% that have the guts to stand up to their bs , and hope to weaken their defenses
Dems don’t care. You can’t legislate evil only the law-abiding. More shootings, more infringements and then it starts all over again. Society needs to adopt something even the stupidest criminal, politician or bureaucrat will understand, if you shoot first then that’s the last thing you’ll remember. Draconian? Of course. Crooked cops?Possibly. Effectiveness? Maybe. Repeat offenders, seldom. Due process? Certainly not for the dead victims. Reality? Never happen.
Good luck with that! Stupid doubles down harder and stupid is the democrats’ Hallmark.
Proud member of the CCRKBA. You should be too.
Instead of gun control, how about you try CRIMINAL CONTROL. By that I mean make it rough on them, no plea deals for crimes committed while armed, add time for violent crimes committed while armed, add time if the gun they use is stolen or serial # defaced, add stop & frisk as a condition to parole for violent offenders, try crimes that are committed while armed in Federal Court. Stop playing ball with these asshats. Make it so that it isn’t a joke, that it’s serious time, not a slap on the wrist. Bring back three strikes laws for… Read more »
Gun control freaks see these sorts of statistics and immediately go to, “We need more efficient control.” Or, “We need a heavier hand to control/eliminate gun sales.” At the same time, they want to de-fund the police and eliminate bail for the actual criminals. It seems it is never the fault of the poor, abused perpetrator, but rather the law abiding citizen gun owner who feels the crushing weight of gun control. What they really want is the total elimination of all firearms except those needed by government to herd us into cages and cells. As has been said by… Read more »
m44 – total elimination of guns (and other ‘dangerous’ arms) from plain old ordinary people since that is the only way they can control us. They will still ‘allow’ their minions to have weapons under very tight control (think military armories) as they will need them to force their will/control on us.
Failure of a Gun Control law is never acknowledged as showing that Gun Control laws don’t work. Instead EVERY failure is taken as an excuse to double down on Gun Control with yet another law that still won’t work.
Have you noticed that stupid always doubles down on criticism? Stupid gets stupider.
Real power twistorically had never conceded anything without a demand. Expose/locate & call out the source of the real power who hi-jacked the left Barking Moonbats (and always have twistorically used the leftist’s/Trotsky’s/Marxist’s as pawns on their chessboard) & you will make real headway. Otherwise, the same cycles of systemic ignorance continue using death by a thousand cuts.