HomeMy WebLinkAbout32 OgleJCSA Meeting 11-5-2019
I am Carl Ogle, from Silverdale, member Kitsap Rifle and RevWW1R `lrCeVhtTDCD
Jefferson County Sportsmen's Assn.
Jefferson county adopted a range ordinance similar to Kitsap county using Kitsap
county's playbook. The Kitsap ordinance has survived only because it has been
tried in front of activist judges in Washington state who make decisions not based
on the constitution but on whichever way the political winds are blowing.
When the Kitsap case goes to federal court in front of a judge who knows the
constitution things will change and most likely Jefferson county will feel the
domino effect.
It is frustrating but predictable we find ourselves back again because the Tarboo
Ridge folks and perhaps some others did not get enough, and they never will.
This agenda is not about the children, school or community safety, or any other
warm fuzzy rhetoric. It's is being promoted by anti 2nd amendment zealots who
don't like guns, don't like people who have guns and want gun ranges to go away.
Property rights are part of this issue as well.
There is no better place to practice with guns than a range like JCSA. The
alternative is to go out and shoot in the woods, an idea actually suggested at a
Kitsap county Commissioners meeting by a Kitsap official. Now I understand local
law enforcement may not be able to shoot in Jefferson County.
These actions place an unnecessary financial burden on taxpayers to satisfy the
complaints of a few.
The primary responsibility of elected officials is to protect the rights of all citizens.
To the members of the JCSA get politically active make sure county officials are
doing their jobs, hold them accountable. If they aren't find constitutionally
conservatives who will. Do a real background check on candidates, find out
everything you can about them. That is what I am doing in Kitsap county.
To those who don't like gun ranges there are 2 choices, live with it or relocate.
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