It's the communist playbook in real time. Allow crime to fester, then disarm law abiding citizens rather than punishing the people responsible.
Democratic Socialist Mayor of Seattle, Katie Wilson, has been a disaster for the city and she's only been in office nine months. So far, multiple major corporate employers are leaving Seattle to avoid tax expansion, homeless camps are growing exponentially, she has triggered several public safety controversies, faced potential recall and plunging public approval.
Anyone with sense could have predicted this, but Seattle is a nesting ground for woke cultism and Wilson said all the right things during her campaign.
As with any far-left administration, it was only a matter of time before Wilson went after firearms rights. In a recent announcement on a "new approach to gun violence", the Mayor calls for "preventing gun violence before it happens". Part of this plan includes Wilson pushing for added restrictions to firearms carry in Washington.
Wilson wants to work with the state legislature to advance gun violence prevention legislation, including regulation of firearms “in sensitive spaces,” regulation of firearms at the city's center, and an update to juvenile firearm possession and sentencing laws (she does not specify what these updates would entail).
Washington already preempts most local gun regulation. Cities cannot ban carry on their own; any broader restrictions would require a change in state law. Current state
