The article does deal with firearms and is in Washington state Dave has been good about that.
My personal feelings is that fundamental rights belong to all humans regardless of their "legal" status.
I have changed my stance on immigration over the years, and feel instead of focusing on people who travel to better their lives, we need to focus on the problems the government causes. I am finding it more and more difficult to label someone "illegal" for simply exercising a fundamental right of travel without government permission.
I do realize though that it is one of the powers of the Federal Government to protect its borders.
A good read is Omnipotent Government by Ludwig VonMises.
Of course, the human right to travel wherever one wants is a reasonable argument. And so, too, is the concept that fundamental rights belong to all of us, regardless of nationality or where you happen to be standing on the planet at any given moment.
What I'm after here, though, is the hypocrisy on the part of government officials who are supposed to uphold the law and the constitution, and in this case, it's hard to argue that they're doing either.
These @$$clowns want to ignore federal immigration law out of political correctness...but I guarantee that if one of these "undocumented workers" was popped with a trunk load of hardware you would hear a much different whine from this bunch.
I'm still plugging away at the Fast and Furious debacle that involved people who should not have been in this country, certainly shouldn't have been trafficking in guns, and most assuredly should not have been creeping around the Arizona desert the night of Dec. 14, 2010 taking shots at our Border Patrol guys, and killing one of them.
Pardon me, but that personally pi$$e$ me off.
Now, our officials in King County see this as the politically correct thing to do in an appeal to what they believe is a liberal and dependable voting bloc. They're all wet up to their eyebrows, however. They overlook crimes committed, problems created, the drain on our health care and education systems...because of politics.
It should not be that way.
We have laws. Some of those laws we don't like, but we obey them until such time as we can change or repeal them, or overturn them in court; the latter being something I'm kind of familiar with :lol:.
But these guys at the county don't obey them. That's not leadership, and it's setting a lousy example. If they don't like a law, they should work to change it instead of just thumbing their nose at it.
Say one of us runs afoul of a gun law in King County. You think for a nano-second these jerks are going to side with you and say "Oh, it's a lousy law, let's just ignore it." Nope, they'll want to throw the book at you.
Yet they think it's just peachy to give "sanctuary" to people who are in this country illegally. Some of them committing crimes. With guns...which prompts the hand-wringers in Olympia to cook up ways to ratchet down on OUR gun rights.
There's a disconnect. It's not on this forum. It's at the King County Council offices and in Olympia.
And I'm going to rub their faces in it every chance I get.
