By Conn Williamson
Along the gold coast of Lake Washington, a mere five miles to the East from the chaos and subterfuge of the Seattle political nightmare, extremist politics have now reached the suburbs and are entrenched within the community in the form of a low-income housing project.
Enter the city of Kirkland, Washington into the chaotic melee of anarchy of radicalized politics, an affluent bedroom community infused with an influx of big tech infrastructure where gun ownership is disapproved of in an aristocracy of community activists which includes employees from the major tech players of Facebook and Google. Within this fairytale environment of vast lawns and sweeping vistas of the Olympic mountain range, the sickness of anti-gun and societal Liberalism afflicts the everyday life of law-abiding citizens and their children.
In the aftermath of the Kirkland city council working with King County to provide a mecca of low-income housing, the Constitution was circumvented in the process at least in a specific example of tyranny.
In being fair to the architects of rampant progressivism, certain lawmakers are and were in some cases merely oblivious and not indifferent to their short-sightedness of ignorance. However, residents within the housing projects are banned from owning firearms or any other form of self-defense mechanism as politicians and administrators allegedly ignore basic rights.
Recently, work was completed on a Kirkland property to convert a former hotel into a shelter for those unhoused and along with the ceremony of hosting a slew of residents, a precedent was set at least within the community infrastructure that self-defense measures of the residents would be limited.
KOMO-TV reports that the property located on the border between Kirkland and Bellevue and adjacent to a school is already in violation of fundamental freedoms as the governing body of the project, Plymouth Housing an outsourced non-profit vendor, will not permit any sort of firearm variant onsite, which has left Second Amendment advocates frustrated, if not incited. Nothing can go wrong here.
As public commentary through meetings and social media has become heated and erring towards backwards policy, the stance of the city of Kirkland towards in backing the reckless policy of Plymouth is reprehensible.
Kirkland Deputy City Manager Jim Lopez has been implicit through community forums that elected officials will support the Plymouth Housing complex enforcing a “no weapons” policy, an egregious response to residents concerned for their safety on the property. Within the KOMO-TV story, Lopez vehemently defended the position of the city that effectively the property at the very least would be a “gun free” zone. Along with Lopez being unaware of Constitutional freedoms, he and his colleagues and others across in the nation managing similar projects have failed to grasp the basic fabric of reality when it comes to the noble intention of an individual to practice self-preservation.
In 2013 the Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) won an permanent injunction against a tax-payer funded property in Warren County, Illinois in successfully defending a resident and others procedurally banned from exercising their basic rights. In light of the SAF legal decision, Lopez was contacted by theGunmag.com staff in regards to the matter, but he declined to respond.
While local residents remain wary of public safety in and around the property, similar projects are being constructed throughout the region and the failure of public officials to comprehend the importance of self-defense in a volatile environment ripe for crime is only a recipe for disaster.
As the new saying goes, “what happens in Seattle, doesn’t stay in Seattle,” and this sentiment pertains to California and Oregon as well in threating the very fabric of the nation and the near future.
