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I posted my opinion on Mike's blog thus:
Mike, as a lifelong resident of the screwed up state of Washington, I would advise you to stay home, and for the PHS to reconsider.
The open carry display in the galleries had the effect of derailing Alan Gottlieb's strategy of give away rights in exchange for revocable privileges. It will cause SAF to have to put up or shut up on it's lawsuit against 594. Further action on that front is I believe, simply shooting the corpse.
On the moral/constitutional issues:
Washington needs to get worse, before it can get better. It needs to live under 594 and all it's defects. Innocents will get prosecuted, yes. The furor must rise from the inside out. Or, as an alternative, 594 needs to be proven a meaningless joke, unenforceable, and largely ignored. Or as an another alternative, found illegal in court.
To explain that you have to compare us to Connecticut, which is a hair away from a shooting conflict. Ultimately, politics fails. Then force decides the issue.
Thus Connecticut is closer to actual redemption than increasingly leftist/collectivist/money controlled Washington.
Most people in this state wouldn't recognize tyranny if if it were right in their face. The west end of this state is in effect, a lost cause as far as political remedies to tyranny go.
An arrest at the capitol, a perp walk, and a few days in the Thurston County lockup, might serve to harden the faithful,but trust me, the population of Western Washington is dead asleep, shallow and ignorant, selfish and greedy, on the whole.
In short, right now, we aren't worth your coming here to participate. No where nearly as worth it as those citizens of Connecticut, waiting for that knock on the door. Or Boot, or battering ram.
Right now, this is up to us, and you have no obligation, moral or otherwise to come all the way out here for this, as much as I appreciate you coming to speak.
And if you do, I would hope you limit your role to that of official spokesperson and representative to the press, for which I think you would be profoundly well suited.
This State is going the way of California, and the only ones who can stop it is our own. And it's our own fault. If gun owners had stuck together, 594 would never have seen the light of day. That's the sad, dirty little secret we hold here. Right now, even more are willing to compromise rights away in exchange for making 594 less onerous.
Asking you to come here even as we cut our own throats is grossly unfair to you, and all the localities where good people who aren't willing to cave in need the help.
Feb 2, 2015, 4:42:27 PM
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