SEATTLE NEWS ARCHIVES & FEATURES

On Sandy Hook: Bob Ferguson’s pointless agitating

Dec 15, 2017, 8:28 AM

Bob Ferguson...

AG Bob Ferguson recently filed a campaign finance suit alleging that Facebook and Google failed to keep legal records. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

(AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

Under mounting legal problems of his own, Bob Ferguson went to grandstand at a vigil for Sandy Hook shooting victims

Further cementing his legacy as “Sideshow Bob,” on Thursday of this week, Bob Ferguson gave a campaign speech for his gubernatorial run. He delivered it at a vigil for the children and educators murdered at Sandy Hook Elementary School five years ago.

Those murders were carried out by an evil young man who was known to be violently, mentally ill, but was allowed to live at home. Bob Ferguson has nothing to say about the increasing rates of murder by handgun in King County. Those murders are clearly due to the gold-rush wars gangs are having in preparation for the defacto legalization of heroin.

Instead, Ferguson made a familiar proposal that would have done nothing to prevent the tragedy of Sandy Hook. Nor would Sidehow Bob’s proposal, if passed into law, prevent another Sandy Hook. Yet, for the progressives who have already mentally cast votes for him, the proposal is an elixir against all violence.

Ban the sale of so-called assault weapons and limit magazine capacities in other weapons

Bob Ferguson’s proposal for a ban on sales of these firearms, if passed into law, would take rifles away from exactly … zero people. One does not need a link or a footnote to understand that.

Sideshow Bob’s proposal to limit magazine capacity, if passed into law, would prevent exactly … zero deaths in so called gun-free zones like schools. Doubt that? Watch the video, below.

There is an actual, physical demonstration, one with an experienced shooter, another with a less experienced, that destroys the myth of magazine size as a tactic to prevent murders. Below, is Sideshow Bob’s fact-free campaign speech at a vigil for murder victims.

Associated Press

Man ordered released on bail after decades on Utah’s death row after DNA tests show no match to him

A Utah judge has ordered a 71-year-old man to be released on bail after he spent decades on death row for a 1985 killing, despite objections from the victim’s family, after prosecutors said newly analyzed DNA evidence did not match him. Douglas Stewart Carter was sentenced to death that same year after a jury found […]

10 minutes ago

Chelan Hills Fire...

MyNorthwest Staff

Chelan Hills Fire court update: 2 plead not guilty, trial set for Nov. 17

Four of the five suspects arrested in connection with the July 4 Chelan Hills Fire appeared in Douglas County court Monday.

22 minutes ago

Associated Press

Kentucky authorities search for suspect in fatal shooting of state trooper along highway

SMITHS GROVE, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky state trooper was fatally shot along an interstate highway Monday and authorities were searching for the shooter and a car that was at the scene, a police official said. Trooper Hayden Phillips was shot while patrolling along northbound Interstate 65 in Warren County, Kentucky state police said in […]

56 minutes ago

Seattle police Chief Shon Barnes katie wilson...

Gee Scott and Ursula Reutin Show

Gee calls Wilson’s hiring process for city’s next chief ‘performative’: ‘You didn’t need that collective voice when letting a chief go’

 The City of Seattle hosted the first of three public sessions where candidates for the next chief of police have a chance to respond to community feedback.

59 minutes ago

An aerial view of the aftermath of a news helicopter that crashed in Chatsworth, a neighborhood in ...

Associated Press

A drone’s perspective meets photographer’s thoughtful eye to create powerful crash photograph

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ethan Swope is a Los Angeles-based freelance photographer who has worked with The Associated Press since 2019, covering breaking news and sports. His first AP assignment was the Kincade wildfire in Northern California. What he had to say about this extraordinary photo I saw a notification of a potential news helicopter […]

1 hour ago

seattle fuel fire...

Gee Scott

Gee: Wait, what?! Suspects set themselves on fire allegedly trying to steal fuel in Seattle

Seattle police are searching for two suspects who allegedly tried to steal fuel from box trucks in Seattle, and set themselves on fire. Wait, what?!

1 hour ago

On Sandy Hook: Bob Ferguson’s pointless agitating