In the aftermath of a triple murder at a Seattle hookah lounge early Sunday, Democrat Mayor Bruce Harrell was accused of exploiting the crime to push his anti-gun agenda and public reaction has placed the blame on the city’s political leadership and its policies.
Seattle’s problem with crime may be reflective of what is happening in other large cities with liberal municipal governments.
Harrell’s reaction to the slayings was “predictable,” the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said.
In a statement posted on his website, Harrell lamented the “awful epidemic of gun violence” and declared his office is “partnering with legislators at the state level to advance enhanced gun safety legislation and end state preemption over firearms so Seattle can finally set our own laws that keep Seattle neighbors safe.”
Harrell has been a perennial critic of the state’s 40-year-old preemption statute, which has prohibited the increasingly-left city administration from setting its own restrictive gun laws. It was that kind of local control which led the State Legislature in 1983 to adopt the first preemption law, and strengthen it in 1985, the year that the National Rifle Association held its annual convention at the Seattle Center.
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