Anti-gun activists love anecdotes. They like to present stories of people who survived horrific experiences or who lost people in senseless atrocities, all to try and leverage our emotions into supporting gun control.
The problem is that we’ve got stories, too. We’ve got a lot of them. They range from people who lost loved ones to people who used guns for self-defense.
Or, there are times when we just trot out the stories that show how little their preferred laws actually do.
King County Sheriff’s Office (KCSO) deputies say neighborhood complaints about crime in White Center are skyrocketing.
To combat that increase, the KCSO Special Emphasis Team has been working alongside the Department of Corrections and King County Metro’s Bicycle Emphasis Enforcement Squad (BEES) to conduct extra patrols.
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On Tuesday, KCSO deputies were on an emphasis patrol when they found a man smoking weed on a bus. Major Hamill tells us the BEES followed the bus and had the driver pull over so they could take the man into custody for smoking weed on the bus.
“The deputies stumbled onto something much bigger from just that small stop,” Hamill said.
He tells us the deputies tried to escort the man off the bus, but he became uncomfortable and tried to pull away.When they patted him down, Hamill said deputies found a gun — an Uzi with a silencer under the man’s shirt and tucked down his pants.
An Uzi is a military-grade machine gun that is generally illegal to own in the United States.
That’s right, some dude was sitting on the bus, smoking weed, while walking around with a suppressed Uzi.
There are a number of transferable Uzis in civilian hands. I’ve got a buddy who has one, actually, and there are a whole lot more than his running around out there, so it’s not quite accurate to say it’s “generally illegal” to own. It’s quite legal, so long as you’ve got the money and the paperwork.
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