From the MadRocketScientist
Maurice Clemmons, who gunned down four Lakewood police officers Nov. 29, was an evil man and no changes in gun laws are going to prevent murders like he committed.
That is a conclusion that Chelan County Sheriff Mike Harum said he came to while serving on a panel of law enforcement officers looking into the shootings.
He was appointed by Gov. Chris Gregoire to a panel that was asked to determine if changes in state laws might have prevented the murders, or if any changes could prevent similar murders in the future.
“Our fear was that if a legislator has a knee-jerk reaction to this whole incident, he might come up with something that we would not be able to work with as a community,” Harum said.
The panel met Dec. 29 in Olympia. Harum was the only law enforcement officer from North Central Washington on the eight-member panel.
How soon will this information be ignored by my Legislators in Olympia?
Too late. They’ve already forgotten every reasonable thing he said.
In other WA gun news, some folks in Oly aren’t waiting for SCOTUS to look at the Montana and Tennesee firearms bills to file their own bill.
HB 2709 – The Washington State Firearms Freedom Act of 2010.