Seattle Mayor's Plan Disregards State Law
 

It never ceases to amaze how these pricks allways rail about following the rule of law.......... that is until a rule comes down they dont like...... then they openly repudiate it







BELLEVUE, Wash., Nov. 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A draft proposal issued Friday by Mayor Greg Nickels outlining his scheme to ignore state statute and state legislative authority over firearms regulation amounts to a slap in the face against more than 250,000 Washington state residents, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said in response.


"We're going to review this draft proposal line-by-line," said CCRKBA Chairman

Alan Gottlieb, "but even a cursory glance at the document released Friday by Mayor Nickels shows that he has chosen to arrogantly ignore the State Attorney General's opinion. State statute clearly limits municipal authority, and the Nickels plan suggests he is attempting to be a little too clever in trying an end-run around the law.


"If Nickels pushes ahead with this scheme," he added, "there will be two kinds of criminals in Seattle, thugs and those who win elections. Both seem to believe it's just fine to ignore the law by playing the system.


"The outrage here is that the mayor is grossly overreacting to a single event," Gottlieb stated, "and trying to push his personal anti-gun agenda by administrative rule, rather than submit this proposal to the city council. We believe such a rule is unenforceable and that it intentionally violates not only the letter of the law, but the spirit and intent of the law as passed by the Legislature more than 20 years ago.


"Legally-armed Washington residents, whether they live in Seattle or just visit there, have just as much right to be on public property as any other citizen," Gottlieb observed. "Mayor Nickels cannot simply issue what amounts to an imperial edict that not only ignores the state preemption statute, but essentially strips these citizens of their state constitutional right to self-defense in places where they have a legal right to be, and the courts have already affirmed this.


"We will encourage gun owners to attend the scheduled Dec. 15 public hearing and remind Mr. Nickels that he was elected mayor of Seattle, not its monarch," Gottlieb said.


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.

http://www.examiner.com/p-266251~Sea...ys_CCRKBA.html

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I'm a bit north of Seattle. Those politicians down there are nutjobs. They were actually debating banning bonfires at the dozen or so bonfire pits in a couple parks in the city. Were there complaints about smoke? No. Secondary fires started from careless people? No. They were worried about global warming. These guys travel around the country on jets going to meetings and symposiums but the common folk can't have a fire on the beech in the summer. And don't get me started on the yuppies when they get out into woods.

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bring it back up

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For this you can also thank the individual that brought a handgun to the Bumbershoot festival and suffered an "accidental" discharge while scuffling with another concertgoer. That's what started this whole affair.

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somebody in Seattle needs to make a criminal complaint to the DA for the mayor's official oppression...

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this works both ways.
The more I see this out of politicians.....the more the people need to behave this way as well.

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