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A group of University Of Washington students are being called vigilantes after they armed themselves with handguns and tried to set up patrols on University Avenue and other areas around campus where students have been attacked over the past year.

Stanley Luong and Luis Garcia have armed themselves. Both are assault victims. Luong says, “Some guy just broke down the window, reached in and unlocked the door and came in and robbed us.”

Garcia says, “Four men jumped out of a car. They assaulted me and threw my girlfriend to the ground and they attempted to rob me. Two times I’ve been jumped. I said it’s not going to happen a third time.”

So both got a concealed license permit and bought handguns. Now they walk with pistols in their pockets…looking for the bad guys.

Luong says, “I don’t know if it’s illegal to walk around and be bait. I’m kind of fishing for robbers.”

Garcia says, “I believe the police they come after the fact. They aren’t there when the incident is occurring I believe this is just the fastest means of protecting oneself and those around youÂ… and so I decided to take that measure and execute my second amendment to bear arms.”

According to the UW Daily Newspaper, there have been ten assaults and robberies in the area in just the past two months. The students also created a Facebook page with more than two dozen friends.

“I was just kind of sick of it and I watched a lot of movies like taxi driver and vigilante movies and I decided, why not make a Facebook” says Luong.

It was quickly removed but by then, the group was already together and remains loosely knit.

The University of Washington Police department doesn’t think this style of vigilantism is a good idea. They would rather see the police work left to the professionals.

University Of Washington Deputy Police Chief Ray Wittmier says, “People when they are carrying weapons a lot of times they feel less vulnerable so they put themselves in bad positions sometimes increasing the likelihood that they might run into a bad situation.”

It is illegal to carry a concealed handgun on college campuses in Washington. There has long been a move to change state law to allow it but so far it has not been successful.

The City of Seattle and the University of Washington pen up the potential victims, and then offer only crime recording and body removal services.

Then they bitch, moan and complain when groups like this one get created.

These poor guys are going to get themselves in trouble. I’m in Tacoma and I can hear the drool splash as it hits the highly polished floors in the Seattle and King County Prosecutors offices.

Bad juju all the way around. Make sure you stop by Monday for “The Big Announcement” that is more than somewhat related to this topic.

Tuesday would’ve been a good day to buy Boeing stock.

Wednesday the company announced they were going to ignore the demands of the Washington Machinists Union and go with a non-union shop in South Carolina to build their future 787 Dreamliner. The stock price went decisively upwards.

And good for them for making the right call.

6000+ jobs will be created with this new assembly plant, along with the 2.5 additional jobs that are proven to be created for every Boeing job. This means approximately 21,000 new taxpaying citizens of South Carolina. The state realized this and knew they had to be very nice to Boeing. Washington state on the other hand, was feeling entitled to the assembly plant and did little to nothing until the last minute to try and win the jobs. Likewise, the WA Machinists union were demanding concessions from Boeing to secure a 10 year contract for the plant.

$26 an hour in WA versus $15 in SC. And those are starting wages. Also, unlike what the local leftosphere bloggers keep furiously pounding into their keyboards, those are also “living wages” for their respective regions. It’s what I call “Krugman’s Disease” – Chronic belief in Kantian Economic Theory stemming from acute mental masturbation while Paul Krugman is talking.

The Washington Democrat Party is no zero for six over the last decade or so with the Boeing Company in job creation. The Machinists Union is zero for umpteen. Both of these losing records are because of their respective entitlement attitudes.

As I’ve stated before, this is a small scale replay of the Michigan/UAW scenario. And it will have the same outcome. Hopefully, Washington residents will swiftly realize that a record as bad as 0-6 means you fire the coach.

The WA legislature did nothing to “incentivise” our state. SC legislators gave Boeing $170 million in tax breaks to help with startup costs. If Boeing had stayed in WA, they wouldn’t have had any startup costs, though they would have had to begin paying more into WA’s very, very bad for business Worker’s Comp system that the legislature refuses to fix. Conversely, SC’s system is quite reasonable.

I’m miles from the nearest Boeing plant and even more miles away from the state capital, and I can still smell “The Smug”. It doesn’t smell like victory.