Dear ANZAC,

Thank you so much for your support of the Alliance for Gun Responsibility! We would not have achieved such a historic victory on background checks without your leadership. That’s why we wanted you to be among the first to know we will soon file a 2016 ballot initiative: Emergency Protection Orders!

This critical initiative could have prevented the UC Santa Barbara, Café Racer and Seattle Jewish Federation shootings. It would help law enforcement and families temporarily restrict access to firearms for individuals proven to be a threat to themselves or others. This lifesaving policy is so commonsense that 83 percent of Washingtonians support it!

We tried to pass this bill through the Washington State legislature this year and last year. Our legislators failed to act – once again proving too many of them are bought and paid for by the gun lobby. However, given the people are with us and voter turnout in Washington State this year is expected to be high, we are confident we will succeed at the ballot. In doing so, we could prevent the next tragedy.

We will formally announce our initiative next week but we wanted to let you know in advance, since you have been with us from the beginning. We hope you will stand with us again now as we take another important step forward!

Thanks again,

The Santa Barbara killer shot, stabbed and ran over his victims. If he is so dangerous that he shouldn’t have a gun, he shouldn’t be on the street!
He have been locked up and treated.
As the incident showed, even without a gun he would have killed people…..

The cafe racer shooter was able to buy guns because the family declined TWICE to press domestic violence charges.
If they weren’t willing to do that, why would they have sought an EPO?

WA law already allows for temporary holds for mental health evaluations. If someone really is a danger to themselves and others, that it the correct route to protect the public.
I work closely with the King County Sheriff’s office and have seen this process in action - it is fair and it protects the individual, the family and the public.

And the scope for abuse with these firearm emergency protection orders is great. There needs to be due process, and an appeal process.
The California law just passed has no right of appeal, no process outlined.

How about encouraging gun safety education in schools (if you see a gun, don’t touch it), raising money for educational campaigns for safe storage etc?
Lobby the federal government for tax credits on gun safes? Encouraging Governor Inslee to get WSP to investigate every background check denial like they do in Oregon?
Plenty of other good avenues out there to make a difference.

While I don’t doubt some legislators are influenced by the gun lobby, I am sure that there are many that have the same concerns that I do.

I won’t support WAGR when it pursues laws that are redundant, or prone to abuse.
if you send me a copy of the draft initiative, I’d be happy to provide comments.

Congratulations on your "victory" and what you've helped to set in motion.....

While I did mostly agree with your response, I have tosay that there is a high level of hypocrisy in regards to I594 in your response.

Well, thanks for replying to them and adding some logic to the conversation. Unfortunately I doubt that it will make any difference, since I'm convinced that they don't care about logic or common sense, but they simply want to harm the gun-owning community.

And may I ask, what were the exact terms of your offer to donate $1000 against the next anti-gun initiative?

I have never doubted the motives of Bloomberg, MDA etc.

And like I said, while I support 594, if WAGR goes off into some AWB or mag limit initiative afterwards, I'll donate double what I donated to 594 against it.

And may I ask, what were the exact terms of your offer to donate $1000 against the next anti-gun initiative?

$500, I think. To be fair, it included a lunch.

(edit) if MAIG come here (or WAGR even) and try anything beyond UBCs, I'll donate double that amount (or more) against them.

I'd want to wait and see the text of this initiative to declare it "anti-gun". If it is a carbon copy of the CA legislation, $1000 will be put against it.

Holy crap, just let it go. We've got another crappy initiative coming down the pipe. At least Anzac is already swinging against it. I just hope it strays into unconstitutional so it can be smacked down.