Is anyone keeping count on the number of Department of Corrections-supervised model citizens who have gotten into trouble with the law in the Seattle area?
Anyone remember Raymond Porter, other than folks at the King County Sheriff’s Department? He’s the scumbag who gunned down Deputy Steve Cox in December 2006 about four hours after he had also murdered another man, using the same gun he used on Cox. Porter, being a convicted felon, couldn’t legally have a gun. The law says so. Maybe Porter couldn’t read.
How about Daniel Culotti, the convicted arsonist and nutball who tried to stomp a man named Kenneth Miller in broad daylight in 2006 down in the Westlake Plaza area? Remember him? Well, he’s not around anymore because he made a fatal error in the victim selection process, since Miller was licensed to carry, and in the midst of being severely beaten – when nobody would come to his aid, mind you – he drew his licensed Ruger .357 Magnum double-action revolver and capped his attacker. Alan Gottlieb and I wrote about this incident in our book America Fights Back: Armed Self-Defense in a Violent Age.
The man suspected of fatally shooting another man in the head Tuesday afternoon in downtown
Seattle had been released from prison in September 2009 and was under Department of Corrections supervision for multiple crimes.-Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Then there was Ronald Matthews, the guy who murdered King County Deputy Rich Herzog with his own gun back in 2002. He was a man with a “troubled life,” according to press coverage.
Now we have a shooting in downtown Seattle allegedly involving a fellow identified as Tomas Afeworki. According to coverage in the Seattle Times and on-line Seattle Post-Intelligencer, this guy apparently walked right up to his victim and shot him in the head. The incident evidently was captured on security cameras.
Every time one of these characters decides to attack or kill another citizen, and particularly if that person is a civilian law enforcement officer, the fallout inevitably encompasses the firearms community. Gun prohibitionists have concluded that the way to disarm criminals is to take guns away from their law-abiding would-be victims. That’s the kind of logic that comes straight off the stable floor, if you get my drift.
Even if Afeworki is able to post bail, he will not be released because he is accused of violating his state Department of Corrections (DOC) probation for being arrested in connection with the shooting. Afeworki has been under DOC supervision for a second-degree-assault conviction, according to law-enforcement officials.—Seattle Times
Mr. Afeworki is a real piece of work, having been released from prison in September 2009, and he was under DOC supervision for what Post-Intelligencer reporter Casey McNerthney described as “multiple crimes.” Digging a bit deeper, we find that his record includes misdemeanor assault, burglary and unlawful imprisonment.
Where did he get the gun? Well, statistically, the odds are pretty slim to non-existent that he got it at a commercial gun shop, or at a Puyallup gun show. Odds are much higher that it was stolen by somebody, and obtained either from a street acquaintance or a family member.
There are lots of violent thugs on the streets. Their freedom justifies the approximately 260,000 concealed pistol licenses now in circulation in Washington State.
Perhaps the question that should be posed to the public is this: Would you feel safer drinking coffee in a Starbucks knowing there are legally-armed citizens at the next table, or walking down the street knowing that a DOC-supervised felon with nothing to lose may be walking up behind you with an illegally-carried gun and the worst of intentions?
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Comments
Common sense does not rule this country anymore. a county full of armed citizens will detour most criminals from wanting to commit crimes simply because the odds of dying are too great. a citizen is not under the same legal constraints as a law enforcement officer when they are being attacked. Hence the criminal moves someplace else where it is safer to commit crimes. Give me a room full of gun toting coffee drinking Starbuck people anytime.
There will come a day when we as avid Gun Rights supporters will see our Second Amendment rights totally restored and protected with no fear of them being attacked by over zealous left agenda, by the Anti gun groups or the falsely reporting news media.
This isn't about truth justice and the American way. It's about Marxists having their way.
They lie and then tell lies about those lies to cover other lies. This brings them power because our news media won't report those lies or examine them at all because they are aware that those lies represent the aquiring of power for them. Because they are Marxists as well....
Get the idea that they might be something to this conspiracy stuff?
It isn't theory, it's fact.
It's not only the DOC that's a problem in this State, that Washington State Criminal Justice Training Commission, also releases many dangerous criminals into the community Dave.
Take a look at the recent model shown in Yakima?
http://www.kimatv.com/news/local/106157583.html
He matches to perfection the Federal Border Patrol Chief, and Child Rapist running the Federal Border Patrol, of Washington, Oregon, and Alaska?
There must be some connection to that Crown Victoria, and this "IS" the TRUE reason for the term "Keep and Bear"!
Washington State, known well as the 4th Corner, where the dunce cap IS Supreme!
Dave Workman, in the Miller-Culotti anecdote, would that happen to be a Ruger SP-101 .357 Magnum, 5-shot double-action revolver? I own one, and it's perfect for concealed carry. I bought it in 1995, after reading several gun mags that featured "Popular Guns for Self-Defense", type articles. The Ruger SP101 .357 Magnum made everyone's short list.
Thanks to Miller depending on his, I know I can depend on mine.
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