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Mary Bruno

The Seattle Times reports that Mayor Mike McGinn is preparing to ask Seattle businesses to ban guns from their premises. About a dozen local businesses, including Cafe Racer, scene of last year’s fatal shooting, have already signed up for their “gun free” decal. Local governments can't make their own gun laws in Washington State. So McGinn took what the Times called a “unilateral executive action, in coordination with Washington CeaseFire.” Apparently, the mayor failed to share his gun free plan with the City Council, an oversight which prompted Bruce Harrell, erstwhile mayoral contender and chair of the council’s Committee on Public Safety, Civil Rights and Technology, to wonder whether the mayor ought to be focused on changing the law that prevents Seattle from regulating firearms. Meanwhile, gun rights activist Alan Gottlieb called the no-guns idea bad business: “If these businesses want to turn off their customer base I guess they can do it,” the founder of Bellevue’s Second Amendment Foundation told the Times. “It’s a free society.”

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Mary Bruno

By Mary Bruno

Mary was Crosscut's Editor-in-Chief and Interim Publisher. In more than 25 years as a journalist, she has worked as a writer, editor and editorial director for a variety of print and web publications,