Anti-gun activists love anecdotes. They like to present stories of people who survived horrific experiences or who lost people in senseless atrocities, all to try and leverage our emotions into supporting gun control.
The problem is that we've got stories, too. We've got a lot of them. They range from people who lost loved ones to people who used guns for self-defense.
Or, there are times when we just trot out the stories that show how little their preferred laws actually do.
King County Sheriff’s Office (KCSO) deputies say neighborhood complaints about crime in White Center are skyrocketing.
To combat that increase, the KCSO Special Emphasis Team has been working alongside the Department of Corrections and King County Metro’s Bicycle Emphasis Enforcement Squad (BEES) to conduct extra patrols.
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On Tuesday, KCSO deputies were on an emphasis patrol when they found a man smoking weed on a bus. Major Hamill tells us the BEES followed the bus and had the driver pull over so they could take the man into custody for smoking weed on the bus.
“The deputies stumbled onto something much bigger from just that small stop,” Hamill said.
He tells us the deputies tried to escort the man off the bus, but he became uncomfortable and tried to pull away.When they patted him down, Hamill said deputies found a gun — an Uzi with a silencer under the man’s shirt and tucked down his pants.
An Uzi is a military-grade machine gun that is generally illegal to own in the United States.
That's right, some dude was sitting on the bus, smoking weed, while walking around with a suppressed Uzi.
There are a number of transferable Uzis in civilian hands. I've got a buddy who has one, actually, and there are a whole lot more than his running around out there, so it's not quite accurate to say it's "generally illegal" to own. It's quite legal, so long as you've got the money and the paperwork.
Pretty sure someone riding the bus in a Seattle suburb isn't the person who can afford a Uzi lawfully. It's a shame that they can't, mind you, but that is what it is, even if Uzis should be available at every curb store, and would be in my Utopia.
Regardless, Washington state has a lot of gun control laws, and yet, we've got this fart-knocker toting around a suppressed Uzi while blazing up like no one cares. I...I honestly don't know quite what to make of it.
What I do get, though, is that a true, full-auto Uzi--assuming the media didn't mangle everything about the facts of this case, which isn't a safe assumption on my part, actually--then this is a firearm that violates the National Firearms Act as it's one of the most tightly controlled types of weapons in the country. You can get 'em legally, but not easily, especially after the 1986 machine gun ban went into effect.
And yet, someone dumb enough to call attention to himself on a public bus by lighting a doobie up apparently had one.
If that doesn't completely discredit gun control as a concept, then what will?
See? We've got our anecdotes, too.
Editor’s Note: The radical left will stop at nothing to enact their radical gun control agenda and strip us of our Second Amendment rights.
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