Here’s a question for our legislators:
Why was Senate Bill 6617 which passed thru the legislature in three days with no public hearing considered an “emergency measure” while Senate Bill 5444 and House Bill 1367, which would enhance background checks, provide a waiting period of up to 10 days and requires the purchaser to be 21 years of age to purchase assault weapons continue to sit without a hearing as they have for the past two sessions?
A few weeks ago, 17 school children were murdered by a person using an assault weapon, the same weapon used in countless other school shootings.
The changes in these proposed bills will help protect our children by making the mass murderer’s weapon of choice harder for the killers to obtain.
Why doesn’t this qualify as an “emergency measure?”
What does this say about the priorities of the people elected to serve us?
It says that shielding themselves from the provisions of the Public Records Act is an “emergency” but shielding our children from murderers is not even worthy of consideration?
Something to remember come November.
Tom Coonelly,
Sequim