Rioting spreads in Seattle - emergency weapons ban included

[maximus83]

Current live report on local Kiro 7 cable news 6 pm PST, repeating details from there not posted online yet:
* Inslee has activated the national guard
* Looting at Nordstroms, other stores
* Protestors blocked Interstate 5 and the Seattle State Patrol has closed it
* Buildings and vehicles, including some SPD vehicles, are on fire
* Reports from mayor's office of injured police officers
* Two AR-15 rifles stolen from a SPD cruiser

Also: Seattle mayor Durkan just issued a "Civil Emergency" order that among other things, bans the carry or use of 'weapons' within Seattle. So as of this evening: it's illegal to even carry or possess a weapon in the Seattle City limits, let alone to defend yourself or protect your property from looters.

Updated: details on the "Civil Emergency" order, including text of the weapons ban. No indication I can see of a date limit on the order.

Text of the portion of order that is banning weapons (including firearms and knives--which she clarified on her live interview). Sounds like merely possessing or carrying a firearm, or a pocket knife, in the city of Seattle now subjects you to arrest, confiscation, fines, and up to 6 months in jail.

Within this zone, all persons are prohibited from possessing, transporting, purchasing, furnishing or selling any weapon, including, but not limited to: rocks, bottles, pipes, bats, clubs,
chains, sharpened signs, shields, gas, road flares, torches, paint balls, light bulbs, any incendiary devices, pry-bars, skateboards, balloons filled with liquid, dimensional lumber with a dimension greater than V2 inch, or any other objects which can be used for infliction of bodily harm or damage to property.

Seattle Police are hereby directed confiscate any weapon identified above or any other implement reasonably perceived or believed to be capable of being used as a weapon found within these boundaries.

Any individual who violates this order shall be subject to arrest, as set forth below in Section 4, and confiscation of the prohibited item.

SECTION 4:
Any person found to have knowingly violated this Civil Emergency Order is guilty of Failure to Obey the Mayor's Emergency Order, and upon conviction may be punished by a fine of not more than Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00) or by imprisonment for not more than One Hundred and Eighty (180) days or both such fine and imprisonment. SMC 10.02.110; 12A.26.040.

[BoringGuy45]

Yeah, well, good luck enforcing that. Better tried by 12 than carried by 6.

[maximus83]

As Dennis Praeger posted recently: all the coronavirus related lockdowns have really been the left's dress rehearsal for a police state.

The new precedent that they've managed to set and that most Americans are apparently willing to accept--is that even the most fundamental civil rights can be abruptly suspended by mayors or governors during emergencies on the ground of 'public health and safety.'

What we're seeing here is yet another instance of that, and now that they feel they can get away with it, I expect to see these infringements on the first and second amendments continue and expand. The definitions of key terms like 'emergency' and 'public safety' will keep shifting, and expanding, as the left uses them to justify ever-increasing infringements of constitutional freedoms.

[crosseyedshooter]

https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/sta...9168908685318?

Antifa rioter takes AR from smashed police car.

Another angle: https://twitter.com/CalebJHull/statu...548860419?s=20

[TomMcC]

Shades of Katrina. Didn't the feds pass a law that says you can't be disarmed in an emergency?

[TexHill]

Shades of Katrina. Didn't the feds pass a law that says you can't be disarmed in an emergency?

Here's what I was able to find:

In 2006, moreover, President George W. Bush signed into law the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, which contained an NRA-backed amendment sponsored by Sen. David Vitter (R-La.). The amendment prohibits persons acting under color of federal law, receiving federal funds, or acting at the direction of a federal employee from seizing or authorizing the seizure of lawfully-possessed firearms or imposing or enforcing certain restrictions on firearms during a state of emergency.

My take: gives state and local government enough wiggle room to take away guns without consequences.

[TomMcC]

I'll bet Seatle is soaking up federal money. Let the lawsuits fly.

[SteyrAUG]

Despite the wording, I don't think that applies to having any of those items in your home.

Shouldn't apply to lawful carry, permit carry or in your car but I wouldn't want to bet my paycheck on that being respected. If I were a Seattle resident I would do my part and try not to get pulled over and force LE to make a decision but if I were a Seattle resident I'd damn sure be armed.

During the many attempted Trayvon protest for a riot attempts in S. Florida I was rolling a MP5k in a laptop bag and a SIG on my hip. I didn't go looking for trouble but if trouble found me I was gonna have some say in the matter.

Probably a Top 20 consideration in my decision to move to another state completely, and that's kind of sad. Spent a good part of my life in South Florida but it just wasn't worth it any more.

[markm]

Weird how the liberal shit holes have the biggest crime problems when animals riot. You don't catch this kind of shit in NON-retarded States where law abiding people will shoot you if you try to smash in their windows.

[titsonritz]

I didn't see the Seattle specific thread when I posted this earlier...

A local security guard taking care of business...



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