On a morning when a school shooting grabbed headlines yet again, Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels urged state lawmakers for the second year in a row to pass tougher gun laws.Go ahead, turn 'em in, Mr. and Mrs. Washington State. Nickels, Kerlikowski and Crenshaw will personally guarantee your safety if you do, and they'll be able to show you their guns (paid for by you) to prove it.
"We have some of the weakest gun laws in America," Nickels said Wednesday, flanked by police Chief Gil Kerlikowske and Special Agent Kelvin Crenshaw, who heads the Seattle office of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
* You really need to be an over-the-hill trivial-minded geek like someone I know to get the pun behind the post title. Anybody care to stand with me in self-inflicted shame?
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The Bluest skies you've never seen are in Seattle .....
Washington has some of the strongest firearms laws in the country.
Now, If we can just get rid of the civilian NFA weapon ban in WA, they would be even stronger.
"You really need to be an over-the-hill trivial-minded geek like someone I know to get the pun behind the post title. Anybody care to stand with me in self-inflicted shame?"
You wouldn't happen to be making reference to the "better dead than red" period of our history, (The McCarthy era). Would you? If not, I'll stand down.
kristopher wins the prize, EDQ: It was the first line of lyrics from the theme song to "Here Come the Brides," sung by Bobby Sherman.
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