Why you exist...

The rhetoric from the Obama administration has one overriding message

You exist for the sake of the State:

The state will decide how much of your social security retirement account to use for other spending (net effect of reducing your payroll contribution to your SS account)

The state will decide how much of your income you will keep (proposed tax increases)

The state will decide if you make too much so they will take more of your income (proposed surtax on income)

The state will decide how much of your retirement nest egg is theirs (increase in capital gain tax)

The state will decide which business to tax more than others (picking winners & losers)

The state will decide who can get waivers on their new plans (over 200 waivers to Obama Care)

The state will decide how much debt they can pile on your children/grandchildren (Debt over $15 trillion today going to $20 trillion in the next 5 years)

Whatever happened to “Consent of the Governed?”
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35 weeks until the Nov 6, 2012 General Election

13 weeks to State Convention—May 30, 2012

3 weeks to County Convention—Mar 24, 2012

THIS Saturday - Caucuses - March 3, 2012
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Here is a copy of a letter I sent my State Senator. You may want to send somethign to your Senator too on this item if you are a responible owner of a firearm.
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Dear Senator Conway,

SB 6628 would single out firearms in the Washington statutes and make it a crime if a child obtains access to a loaded firearm that was stored in a location where the person reasonably knows that a child is likely to gain access.

This is already covered in Washington’s Reckless Endangerment statute!

The only reason to push this duplicative law is to demonize firearms in Washington law. Fatal firearm accidents are at an all-time low. If Senator Kline really cared about saving children, rather than trying to exploit a tragedy to attack firearms, he would be targeting poisons, items that suffocate children and objects on which kids choke because all three cause more accidental deaths to children than firearms. But we know that Senator Kline, who sponsored the semi-auto ban two years ago, is only interested in banning firearms and making life miserable for law-abiding gun owners.

This legislation is a knee-jerk response to the tragic shooting of an 8-year old girl by a 9-year old boy at a Bremerton school last week. Rather than go after firearms, Senator Kline might better spend his time going after people like the boy’s mother, whose lengthy criminal record included possession of meth, marijuana delivery and forgery. The boy found the gun, which allegedly belongs to the mother’s criminal boyfriend, during an unsupervised visit to her house.

Senator Kline conveniently ignores the fact that the firearm in question was already illegally possessed by a prohibited person. We're supposed to believe that individuals who knowingly and intentionally committed previous felonies, and whose very possession of a firearm appears to be another felony itself, would obey a safe storage statute?

Senator Kline added a SECOND SECTION to SB 6628, amending the concealed pistol license statute (RCW 9.41.070) to add a $2.00 fee INCREASE to the cost of a CPL. What does reckless endangerment or requirements for firearm storage have to do with CPLs? Absolutely nothing! It is merely an underhanded trick to give life to a bill that had no business being filed in the first place.

Senator Kline allowed HB 1508, the range protection bill, to die in his committee. If Senator Kline is interested in FIREARM SAFETY, how better to do that than correct and pass a bill that ensures firing ranges are available for safe shooting -- and more importantly, where FIREARM SAFETY CLASSES are regularly conducted.

Senator Kline talks about being reasonable but this is an incredibly cynical and brazen attempt to "dance in the blood" of a poor victim to promote Senator Kline's extremist anti-gun agenda.

Please DO NOT SUPPORT SB6628.
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