UPDATED: Seattle police announced the arrest of a suspect in a fatal shooting that occurred in the city’s Westlake Station transit tunnel last Friday; a man apparently “well known” to lawmen in nearby Bellevue, where the arrest occurred, but already Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan is blaming guns, not the alleged perpetrator. In a statement […]
Found in Seattle: Solution to Drive-By Shootings?
Responding to a trio of drive-by shootings along a Seattle street since last fall, socialist City Councilwoman Kshama Sawant has offered a solution: raised flower beds and speed bumps on the street. According to KING5 News, the local NBC affiliate, Sawant called for “common sense gun measures” including a ban on semi-automatic firearms. The Jet […]
Interesting Data: Seattle Murders Up Since Gun Control Crusade Began
Relying on Seattle Police Department data, Patch.com reported that the Jet City “tallied more homicides (last) year than any year in more than a decade,” an interesting revelation considering that passage of an anti-gun-rights initiative, largely supported by Seattle voters, was supposed to reduce murder and mayhem. There were, according to the article, 31 homicides […]
More on Gun-Related Deaths 2017: The New Math of Hysteria?
Continued reporting on gun-related deaths in 2017—a record high in the U.S. in almost 40 years, according to The Hill and other publications—keeps one thing in perspective: combining the number of suicides, homicides, accidents, legal interventions and “operations of war” creates a more dramatic, and perhaps misleading, impression about firearms in the United States. Last […]
‘Gun Deaths’ Reach ‘Record High,’ Says CNN
According to a new report at CNN, “gun deaths in America have reached a record high.” The report says that 39,773 people “died by guns” last year, and this is where it appears a numbers game starts playing, which can be understandably frustrating to anyone used to asking direct questions and getting direct answers. It’s […]
Seattle Center Homicide Has Lessons Liberals Refuse to Hear
UPDATED 11/6 – A fatal stabbing at the Seattle Center last Friday has some lessons for anti-gunners across the country that they don’t want to hear. One reason may be that the suspect, identified as David Lee Morris, was held at bay for several minutes by a legally-armed citizen until police arrived and […]
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