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Fed up with the passage of an 18½-page incoherent rambling unconstitutional gun control initiative that was bankrolled by billionaires gun owners across Washington state held the largest felony civil disobedience rally in the nations history brazenly titled I Will Not Comply." No one was hurt and no stores were looted. Between 1000 and 3000 lawful gun owners showed up openly armed at the state capitol in Olympia Wash. on Saturday to defy the newly passed gun control law I-594.
Organizer Gavin Seim made the extraordinary nature of the rally very clear This isnt just a protest. We are here to openly violate the law. Attendees publicly transferred their guns to each other in violation of I-591s background check provisions and some even bought and sold guns just a few feet away from law enforcement. A fire pit blazed throughout the rally and at the conclusion gun owners lined up to burn their concealed weapons permits. A petition was circulated affirming gun owners refusal to follow I-594 which ended with We pledge our blood. We will not comply."
As the RSVPs in advance of the rally grew to over 6000 the police - most who probably detest I-594 - decided not to enforce the law. The Washington State Patrol announced there would be no arrests for exchanging guns - not even for selling guns. Seim refused to obtain a permit to hold the rally citing the right of people to peaceably assemble.
The rally could not be dismissed as fringe elements. Several lawmakers and lawmen spoke including former Graham County Sheriff Richard Mack of Arizona Washington State Rep. Elizabeth Scott (R-Monroe) and Rep. Graham Hunt (R-Orting) who sported an AR-15 during his speech. Mack advised gun owners engaging in civil disobedience to put your sheriff next to you to keep it peaceful." Scott defiantly explained in her speech I will not comply with I-594 because it is unconstitutional unenforceable and unjust. It is impossible to enforce this law unless there is a police officer on every back porch and in every living room. So it will be enforced selectively." She noted that Founding Father Alexander Hamilton said any law that violates the Constitution is not valid and there is a moral obligation to disobey unjust laws.
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