Urgent Request on Gun Iniatives

[Skyvalhunter]

I sent out my e-mails

[MarkyMark]

Am I the only one who thinks Sen Jeannie Darneille looks like Sir Elton John?

State Sen. Jeannie Darneille (D-27th District) candidly revealed, “I am not a person who handles guns. I don’t own guns. I don’t…they shock me, quite frankly. We’re an open carry state and when I see people open carrying their guns, while it may be perfectly legal, it creates a visceral, personal, physical reaction in me as it does in other people…”

[pianoman9701]

Must be a lot like the visceral, personal, physical reaction in me when I see this woman's face coupled with her ignorance.

[huntrights]

We need to keep this up top. I'm not sure people realize how bad I594 is for gun owners. There was a good turnout on the pro- side today, but its hard to tell.

We'll likely be hearing a lot more about I-594 (The anti-gun, whittle away at our rights, more useless bureaucratic red-tape initiative that affects only law-abiding citizens and does nothing to prevent the malevolent and evil acts of criminals).  Keeping this topic as a "Sticky" is definitely important to ensure people continue to be informed and to make it easy to take action regarding this very ominous initiative.

Here are the links to the testimony given on both days.  There were a large number of people that attended the House Judiciary hearing so many of them did not get a chance to speak.  There were not as many people at the Senate Law and Justice hearing, and it appeared that all people that wanted to speak had that opportunity.  In both cases, people could also submit their written testimony if they chose to do so.  If you were not able to attend the hearings, it is worth your time to watch the testimony.

1-28-14
Testimony to the WA Judiciary Committee

Public: HI 591: Protect Our Gun Rights, HI 594: Universal Background Checks, HB 1561: Short Barrel Rifles
Full Video:
http://www.tvw.org/index.php?option=com_tvwplayer&eventID=2014010151


1-29-14
Testimony to the WA Senate Law and Justice Committee

Public: HI 591: Protect Our Gun Rights, HI 594: Universal Background Checks
Full Video:
http://www.tvw.org/index.php?option=com_tvwplayer&eventID=2014010154


 
The anti-gun crowd (supporters of I-594) continuously focus on the emotional anti-gun mileage they can get out of horrible tragedies versus drilling down to the root causes of the social ills that are the primary causes of those tragedies.