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WA: Gun rights rally at Washington Senate gallery results in ban on firearms
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Blaming a rally by a group of legally armed Second Amendment advocates at the state Capitol in Olympia Thursday, Washington’s Lt. Governor ruled Friday that guns are now banned from the chamber.
The rally of some 200 gun rights activists on the steps of the Capitol building Jan. 15, was a continuation of the vocal opposition to the state’s background check ballot referendum, I-594, passed by voters last November. However, when the protest spilled over into the public gallery, there was an altercation between an open carrier and a state police lieutenant that ended with threats of removal and arrest. |
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| Again, it is fear, fear created by anti-gun groups which drive the undercurrent. The altercation likely is the result of fear on both sides. It also appears the actions of a minute minority has resulted in a damning of the majority, a move I do not nor should anyone respect. The banning was an emotional knee-jerk, hysteria. Law-makers who are unable to use pragmatism, logic and reason, removing emotional outbursts would best be left to some other job. |
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