November 17, 2009 - 10:45 pm

Mayor Nickels: Morally, intellectually and constitutionally flawed

Lame duck Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels is on his media farewell tour (he somehow has bypassed my show). In an interview with KING-5's Jean Enersen, Nickels was asked about his illegal, unconstitutional gun ban.

Nickels' answer revealed the bizarre thinking that contributed to his ouster as mayor:

The city passed a ban on guns on city-owned property where children are likely to be, but the constitutionality of the ban is in doubt and could turn into a court battle that could cost the city a lot of money.

"You know, if we can save one person, one life, then I think it is absolutely worth it. But we lost a police officer on Halloween night. He was shot with an assault weapon. Why do we have assault weapons? No hunter needs an assault weapon. There is no purpose to that except to take human life," said Nickels.

He was asked about his unconstitutional gun ban on city property and he had the audacity to bring up the murder of Officer Brenton. A bizarre and shameful non-sequitur.

But I'm most intrigued by his statement "if we can save...one life, then I think it is absolutely worth it." First of all, there is absolutely no way to ever prove that a gun ban has saved any lives.

Secondly, is that the new liberal standard for when it's acceptable to ignore the constitution? As one listener asked Tuesday, why doesn't the mayor ban all cars in the city? That would almost certainly save lives.

How about an unconstitutional ban on homosexuality? There have been many AIDS deaths in the city - now that Mayor Nickels has established the standard that you can ignore the constitution if you can save one life, where will he stop?

Will he authorize Seattle Police to start torturing suspects to get information? After all, that might save just one life.

Ah... how easy it is to break down the idiocy of the anti-gun left.