Washington EAOTD #2: Email committee members today, please!

[Mad Pick]

Easy Action of the Day #2 -

Email the the Civil Rights & Judiciary committee members today (email addresses are below). They're scheduled for an executive session on the following bills. Which means, they're getting ready to send them to the floor for VOTE!

Tell them "DO NOT PASS" these bills out of committee. Let the courts do their work to resolve hundreds of lawsuits across the country, don't bury the state in legal fees, don't impair Washingtonians civil rights, don't burden law enforcement with a worthless permit process (still have to do background checks), let them do their work and catch the criminal roaming our streets. Be polite, be professional, but be FIRM. But do it NOW! Don't wait. Then, tell 2 friends, like and share this post everywhere.

HB-1178 - Repealing Preemption- making a patchwork of gun laws that changes city to city, county to county statewide. No uniformity, no consistency and a legal minefield for cities to defend these laws in court.

HB-1143/1144 - Permits to purchase, training, fees, an extra, identical background check, fingerprinting, delays to purchase any firearm. And no, you can't cross the border to escape this regulation.
"No state may erroneously convert a secured liberty into privilege, and issue a license and a fee for that license" Shuttlesworth vs Birmingham, 1969 United State Supreme Court.

HB-1240 - Assault Weapons Ban. An EMERGENCY and Immediate ban on semi auto rifles, some pistols and shotguns. Driving thousands of jobs from Washington. Preventing people from moving here with any semi auto rifle. Does nothing to address criminal use of firearms, but bans the most commonly owned class of firearms in Amercia.
"Where constitutional rights are concerned, there can be no law or rule-making which would abrogate them." ~ Miranda v Arizona, 1966, United States Supreme Court"

HB-1195 - Ban open carry in city and county parks. Creating a an overly broad "sensitive places" which has been struck down by the courts, but also eliminates hunting and hunting access statewide.

Copy and paste their emails into your email program and send them a message:

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[Mad Pick]

Done!

 

[ilikegunspdx]

Easy Action of the Day #2 -

Email the the Civil Rights & Judiciary committee members today (email addresses are below). They're scheduled for an executive session on the following bills. Which means, they're getting ready to send them to the floor for VOTE!

Tell them "DO NOT PASS" these bills out of committee. Let the courts do their work to resolve hundreds of lawsuits across the country, don't bury the state in legal fees, don't impair Washingtonians civil rights, don't burden law enforcement with a worthless permit process (still have to do background checks), let them do their work and catch the criminal roaming our streets. Be polite, be professional, but be FIRM. But do it NOW! Don't wait. Then, tell 2 friends, like and share this post everywhere.

HB-1178 - Repealing Preemption- making a patchwork of gun laws that changes city to city, county to county statewide. No uniformity, no consistency and a legal minefield for cities to defend these laws in court.

HB-1143/1144 - Permits to purchase, training, fees, an extra, identical background check, fingerprinting, delays to purchase any firearm. And no, you can't cross the border to escape this regulation.
"No state may erroneously convert a secured liberty into privilege, and issue a license and a fee for that license" Shuttlesworth vs Birmingham, 1969 United State Supreme Court.

HB-1240 - Assault Weapons Ban. An EMERGENCY and Immediate ban on semi auto rifles, some pistols and shotguns. Driving thousands of jobs from Washington. Preventing people from moving here with any semi auto rifle. Does nothing to address criminal use of firearms, but bans the most commonly owned class of firearms in Amercia.
"Where constitutional rights are concerned, there can be no law or rule-making which would abrogate them." ~ Miranda v Arizona, 1966, United States Supreme Court"

HB-1195 - Ban open carry in city and county parks. Creating a an overly broad "sensitive places" which has been struck down by the courts, but also eliminates hunting and hunting access statewide.

Copy and paste their emails into your email program and send them a message:

[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
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Once you have emailed, please comment below so we can keep the momentum going!

Good job putting that together! It's so easy there is no excuse for not doing it. If you care about saving your gun rights take a couple minutes and do it!

 

[Mad Pick]

My email:

Subject: Please oppose anti-gun bills!

Dear committee members,

I ask you to please do NOT move the following bills on from committee:
HB1178 - Repealing preemption
HB1143, HB1144 - Permits to purchase, etc.
HB1240 - "Assault weapon" ban
HB1195 - Open carry in parks

Every single one of us -- both Democrat and Republican -- knows WITH CERTAINTY that these bills will do nothing to reduce crime, and will only hurt good, law-abiding citizens.

PLEASE DO NOT BE A PAWN OF THE GOVERNOR OR THE ATTORNEY GENERAL.

Let these bills die. Do not move them forward, because as we all know they will eventually be killed by the courts. Despite what Sen. Kuderer believes, constitutionality is absolutely NOT "in the eye of the beholder."

Please do the right thing this session, and stop the madness.

Thank you.
MadPick
Renton

 

[Mad Pick]

Good job putting that together! It's so easy there is no excuse for not doing it. If you care about saving your gun rights take a couple minutes and do it!

I can't take credit. These "easy actions of the day" are put together by the heroes at the Washington Civil Rights Association. I just do my tiny part by posting and sharing to get the word out there, and of course by doing the easy action myself.

Thanks for everyone who is helping out! The legislature is only is session for a couple of months (thankfully...) so we just need to hit them hard for these couple of months, and then we can relax and spend the rest of the year on lawsuits.

 

[Tinman357]

Thank you for posting this up.

Done.

 

[bentoncity]

Sent

 

[44Brent]

I already sent them this message last week as reported on another thread. Do I need to send them ANOTHER one like it?
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Subject line for House member: The Curious Case of "Monkey-See, Monkey-Do" Bills: HB1346, HB1374, et al.
Subject line for Senate members: The Curious Case of "Monkey-See, Monkey-Do" Bills: SB5174, SB6076, , SB6288, et al.
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The Washington legislature currently has a collection of gun-control bills in committees, which are modeled after California laws. The California laws are being challenged in federal courts which comprise the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. Since the California laws have been bouncing around the courts for years, their pathway and status serve as an illustrative roadmap for predicting what will happen to the Washington bills, which will inevitably be signed into law by Governor Inslee. I will hereafter refer to the collection of bills as "Monkey-See, Monkey-Do" bills, which include the following:

HB1346, HB1374, HB2519, HB2555, HB1068 – SB5062, SB5174, HB2241 - SB6076, HB2240 – SB 6077, SB6288, SB6294

There is a specific law in California which has been going through challenges in the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals since 2017, and is now approaching an embarrassingly ignoble end, with the California Attorney General apologizing for the legal arguments he has been making in defending the law. The specific law under challenge is one which bans the sale of high-capacity magazines (3:17-cv-01017-BEN-JLB). What happened to make this case so embarrassing for Attorney General Bonta?

1. The Supreme Court vacated a ruling by the 9th Circuit of Appeals, which previously upheld the California law. The Supreme Court remanded the case back along with instructions for the 9th Circuit of Appeals to properly apply Supreme Court rulings. See the attached file 2022-08-01-Certified-Copy-of-Judgment.pdf In response, the 9th Circuit Court remanded it back down to the original District Court that had originally issued an injunction blocking enforcement of the law, to rehear the case. See the file attached file 2022-09-23-Order-Vacating-Remanding.pdf
2. The Attorney General has been ordered to provide evidence of historical analogues from the era of the country's founding, that would justify such a ban.
3. After conducting an exhaustive search for evidence of historical analogues from the era of the country's founding, the Attorney General could not produce such evidence. But, what he COULD produce was a huge litany of laws aimed specifically at slaves and Indians, examples from European countries in the 1300s, as well as fire-control codes for the storage of gunpowder. The Attorney General now professes to condemn his own recitation of such laws as being "racist". See referenced file https://michellawyers.com/wp-conten...re-Defendants-Survey-of-Relevant-Statutes.pdf

In contrast to the Attorney General of California, Bob Ferguson has more skillfully delayed embarrassment of having to deliver examples of race-based laws in similar ongoing cases in Washington State. Bob Ferguson has pulled in Alliance for Gun Responsibility as an intervenor into Brumback v. Ferguson and Sullivan v. Ferguson, so that they can take the heat for providing discredited race-based laws as justification for a high-capacity magazine ban.

If you want to watch the entertaining weekly circus of what presages Governor Inslees bills, you can follow the ignoble end of one of California's gun control laws as it reaches its logical conclusion of the legal process here. https://michellawyers.com/duncan-v-becerra/

There is one positive outcome of the "Monkey-See, Monkey-Do" bills that Governor Inslee will be signing into law, and that is that the Second Amendment Foundation in Bellevue is going to be handed one of its biggest opportunities for a fund-raising campaign in its history. That will inevitably be followed by successful lawsuits that not only terminate the current batch of "Monkey-See, Monkey-Do" laws, but also existing gun-control laws.

 

[44Brent]

Here's an idea for people who have not sent a personalized message. Send them links to articles like this

Zerohedge

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

www.zerohedge.com

Or send them copies of recent injunctions issued in other states for similar law that they are now trying to pass. Or, remind them that it was a so-called "Safe Storage" law in D.C. that triggered the Supreme Court into issuing its Heller decision, and that their plan to get local governments license to pass similar ordinances will trigger MORE rulings in the courts JUST LIKE HELLER.

SInce I've already insulted them by calling them "Monkey See, Monkey Do" laws they probably aren't receptive to hearing from me personally again. Emphasize that they are going to get inundated with lawsuits and that they will LOSE the lawsuits just like the other legislatures that are losing lawsuits left and right. Also emphasize that once they get the ire of gun owners up and we start filing lawsuits, we aren't going to stop with just the new laws that get passed, but that we will use the big hammer given to us by Bruen to file lawsuits invalidate the ones that are already on the books.

 

[po18guy]

Done. Sadly.

 

[GWS]

And...
Done
Thanks to @Mad Pick for the heads up.

 

[po18guy]

1. They KNOW these will be ineffective at achieveing their "stated" goal.
2. They KNOW they are unconstitutional in light of SCOTUS rulings.
3. They PASS THEM anyway.
4. Costs US time and money.
5. Costs THEM nothing.
6. Therefore, they are punishing us and draining us of our reserve to oppose them.

 

[Jim Horn]

11 emails sent, individually addressed. Thank you for the advice!

 

[ilikegunspdx]

1. They KNOW these will be ineffective at achieveing their "stated" goal.
2. They KNOW they are unconstitutional in light of SCOTUS rulings.
3. They PASS THEM anyway.
4. Costs US time and money.
5. Costs THEM nothing.
6. Therefore, they are punishing us and draining us of our reserve to oppose them.

Truth. Also keep in mind the more this is talked about in the media, social media, etc the more they marginalize gun owners as "them". That makes it easier to launch the next attack. "Us" against "them".

If it's a constant parade of sob stories from victims it makes an emotional reaction for a certain political base. Likewise the constant "we have to protect them" language from politicians". It's all about power and politics. They want to marginalize and demonize gun owners. That makes them the "virtuous ones" fighting against "the evil guns", in their heads I mean.

For them they actually think the amount of crimes is simply due to the number of guns on the street. The actual cause is soft on crime policies where people can be arrested dozens and dozens of times when still in their early 20s and still be released only to commit murder.

 

[Caveman Jim]

Steve, thanks for branching out with this Easy Action of the Day.
DONE!

 

[44Brent]

1. They KNOW these will be ineffective at achieveing their "stated" goal.
2. They KNOW they are unconstitutional in light of SCOTUS rulings.
3. They PASS THEM anyway.
4. Costs US time and money.
5. Costs THEM nothing.
6. Therefore, they are punishing us and draining us of our reserve to oppose them.

There is another aspect to consider and that is the human response to publicly LOSING a fight in a way that you end up with a pie in the face. In the days before the Illinois legislature it turned into a public spectacle of each side warning the other that they were going to win in court. One of the gun banners public said "We will see you in court" to the gun freedom lobby. Within days of the law being signed into law they got a big huge public slapdown by a judge in a state court. Gun banners were hopping mad because all their bluster was exposed as being nonsense. They now have egg on their face. Think of a bullly in a school yard bragging he is going to beat up a little kid smaller than himself. The smaller kid delivers an instant knockout blow to the bully and the bully is on his back totally embarassed.

If you are a gun banner how many times do you want to be publicly defeated in court ? 5 times? How about 100 times? If they take away state preemption they are going to lose 100 times instead of 5 times. It is good to remind them of this.

They consider gun owners to. be a soft easy target to blame for all the problems they themselves created. When they discover that their "soft easy" target actually has a big hammer ;and is using it to knock the snot out of them, they will look for a different target to blame for their failures.

 

[po18guy]

Can there be an injunction against passing unconstitutional legislation? The rulings are known instantly. It's not like a horseman has to ride across the USA carrying the SCOTUS decisions.

In the alternative, why don't they declare martial law? It's ultimately what they want.

 

[44Brent]

In the alternative, why don't they declare martial law? It's ultimately what they want.

Because they need to confiscate the guns first!

 

[RobMa]

Done!!!

 

[Nwcid]

Emails sent.