I’m responding to the Sept. 8 front-page story “State AG seeks assault weapons ban,” with requisite demagoguery, displaying a mother of a wounded victim from Mukilteo, and Attorney General Bob Ferguson vowing prevention from this happening elsewhere.
Ferguson rails against assault weapons and high-capacity magazines. He hopes none realize rifle type, size of magazine, account for few shooting deaths in this country. Even the worst shooting in the Pulse nightclub was less than one-tenth of the shootings in Chicago to date. How many drive-by shootings in cities are committed with rifles? Why are most shootings occurring where gun laws are most stringent?
Had the Mukilteo killings happened with a Buck Model 110 knife, would Ferguson advocate laws against knives?
Washington voters passed a background check law for gun sales recently. Now, in addition to federal, the form is virtually verbatim for Washington. Oh, by the way, border agents can’t accost illegals because they look a certain way, but if you don’t answer the question of race on federal and Washington forms, no sale. Ferguson should remove his personal vendetta against gun rights and take a pragmatic approach, support the Constitution and Washington state laws as he swore to when he took office.
