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Saturday, Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan, a former federal prosecutor, signed a "Civil Emergency Order". The Order prohibits "possessing, transporting ... any weapon" in the entire core downtown area of the city. So, in other words, residents, business owners, and workers who live or work in this large area are stripped of their right to effective self-defense or defense of others because it's really dangerous there now due to the criminal actions of Antifa/BLM and other rioters, arsonists, and looters. The Order has no expiration date and the mayor claims as her authority SMC 10.02.020, which she apparently thinks trump the state and federal constitutions.
And even though most of the violence in Seattle is concentrated in the core downtown area the entire city with a population of more than 740,000 is also under a 5 PM to 5 AM curfew.
I do not understand this.
Let us say that a person lived downtown and they have a gun in their home for self defense.
How can they be stripped of this right if someone breaks into their HOME and the CRIMINAL may want to murder you aka THE VICTIM, plus burn it all down?
The mayor is telling people that they can't conceal or open carry a handgun or have one in their truck or car too?
That curfew and the times stated for it makes NO sense too.
Confused Old Lady Cate