I'm dancing on thin ice here, trying to avoid posting a political thread, but this is important. Please, do not respond with any feedback that could get this thread removed.
Washingtonians,
If you have no other reason to vote, please at least look at Initiative 1639. In your voter's pamphlet, read the arguments for and against. The choice of how to vote will be obvious to those on this forum, but maybe not so obvious for others within the state. I will say no more.
"The Road To Hell Is Paved With Good Intentions...."
This old saw has been on the public consciousness for hunnerds of years but people never think about it until it affects THEM.
The problem is, people out here are "nice"..... and incredibly naive/stupid.
Stupid people have been "trying to do the right thing and just make everybody happy" as long as there's been voting.
We're getting more and more "democratic," voting the whim of the stupid people. NICE stupid people, mainly.
We already
have a law on the books here in WA that says I have to do a background check on a friend or acquaintance if he's over visiting and he shoots clay birds in my yard using my gun.
We HAVE this law. "Nice People" voted it in a few yrs ago..
I am a certified Hunter Safety Officer Of Thee State Of Washington...... an unpaid employee of the WDFW. At An In Service Training Seminar we were given an exemption from the State Attorney General so we could continue to teach. In a room full of 2400 adults one lone hand goes up..... There's Ol' AnilWa again...." I need that in writing.... "
IMO, the sick thing is, I WAS THE ONLY ONE!..... In a room of 2400.....Everybody else was perfectly happy to live in a world where "We're exempt from the law cuz we know the secret han'shake" which is just ANOTHER iteration of stupid people IMO. I don't want to be a member of any Secret Society. Nor of ANY "Society" that would want me.....
Long story short, I'm the only guy in the world who calls the FBI to have them run background checks on folks when we're having a fam'bly barbeque..... It's gotten to the point where they say "Are you that guy from Washington??? WE DON'T WANT TO BE PARTY TO YOUR STUPID LAWS!!!"
LOL
al