I like Eastern Washington. It’s been home for over 30 years; my job would have allowed me to move anywhere. But my family liked calling Spokane home. There are a lot of reasons our community is attractive. The easy commutes, low cost of housing, an excellent medical community and conservative, responsibly based politics are infused into the city and county. It’s been good.

But now we have an activist City Council president who would turn our town into liberal, progressive Seattle. A tax on guns and ammunition? And the revenue would go to some nebulous mental health program that is supposed to curtail “gun violence”? Another law and tax aimed squarely at a constituency Stuckart doesn’t respect. The net result if this unthought-out legislation passes, is a reduction in tax revenue for the city, a burden on sporting equipment shops that sell firearms, and no measurable improvement in fighting the evil which resides on our streets. Just another feel-good lurch to the left for those who support Stuckart and his views.

This is how Stuckart and his ilk, including the leftist running for Congress on the Democratic ticket, Lisa Brown, want to turn our side of the state into Seattle-lite. Resist. Let them know we don’t want their Big Government policies in Eastern Washington. We have considerable work to do to ensure safety for us and our kids. But it doesn’t begin with an emotionally generated tax proposal.

Dave McCann

Spokane