I-594 vote telling

The passage of Initiative 594 and the rejection of Initiative 591 send a twofold message.

One, any future anti-gun measures, here in leftist Washington, voters have said that they don’t have a problem with the government confiscating firearms. Will they also not have a problem when the Big Brother government that they cherish decides that they really don’t need freedom of speech?

In the national election, however, a third message was sent to our frothing-at-the-mouth gun-haters from New York to the cubicles of The Spokesman-Review and the Seattle Times. With the Republicans capturing the Senate, called the “Big Prize” by the National Rifle Association, the anti-gun juggernaut has just been shot down (no pun) in flames.

With the exception of a few Marxist-left states, like Washington, most Americans took the NRA’s advice to “vote freedom first.”

Curtis Stone

Dayton, Wash.