Tawnos
Regular Member
http://apps.leg.wa.gov/documents/billdocs/2011-12/Pdf/Bills/House Bills/2067.pdf
This bill strikes the entirety of 9A.16.110. This goes beyond bad politics as usual, it's unconscionable. Any of you living or with family in the 48th district should be contacting Ross Hunter: ross.hunter@leg.wa.gov - Tell him what you think about making self-defense a scarier legal position to be put in, and why you or your friends will not be voting for him. My email follows:
This bill strikes the entirety of 9A.16.110. This goes beyond bad politics as usual, it's unconscionable. Any of you living or with family in the 48th district should be contacting Ross Hunter: ross.hunter@leg.wa.gov - Tell him what you think about making self-defense a scarier legal position to be put in, and why you or your friends will not be voting for him. My email follows:
Subject: I'm disappointed in you - HB1016 & 2067
Body:
First, you vote “no” on HB1016 because you don’t understand the law. Your reasoning that you “have remaining concerns about these suppressors leaking into the general population. Stuff gets stolen, lost, or given away” makes no sense when the bill in question does not change the purchase or acquisition of these devices, it simply removes penalties for using them to reduce noise. Thankfully, that poor vote was overturned by your more sensible colleagues.
You then turn right back around and work to further weaken the legal rights of a person acting in self-defense. It is unconscionable to place the burden of defense on the assaulted party. Many avoid going to court already due to the perceived imbalance of prosecutorial power versus the right of the defendant, and you further engender this bias via HB2067. It’s clear you care little about the rights of the people in this state to effectively defend themselves per Article 1 Section 24 of our constitution, both in safety of practice and practicality of legal repercussions. As such, I will be urging friends and families to vote against you this next election, as you clearly do not serve the rights of the people of the 48th district.