Gun rights, 51st state are linked, Shea tells rally

[TexasTowelie]

OLYMPIA – Striding back and forth across the marbled Rotunda with the flag of the proposed state of Liberty behind him, Rep. Matt Shea drew a connection between supporting gun rights and splitting Washington at the crest of the Cascade Mountains.

Despite all the talk he’s heard about “One Washington” around the Capitol, Eastern Washington and liberal downtown Seattle are very different, the Spokane Valley Republican said. Residents of the latter might support more government regulations, higher taxes and gun control; residents of the former don’t, he said.

About 50 people gathered in chairs and on the steps around him cheered and clapped.

“We’re not going to live in a state that takes away our firearms,” he said, to more cheers. “The only solution left is a 51st state.”

Read more: http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2019/feb/15/gun-rights-51st-state-are-linked-shea-tells-rally/


Rep. Matt Shea, R-Spokane Valley, talks about the connection between gun rights and the proposed state of Liberty in Eastern Washington, at a rally Friday at the Capitol in Olympia, Wash. (Jim Camden / The Spokesman-Review)

[pangaia]

1. These people need psychiatric evaluations.

Something up there is not functioning properly.

[Canoe52]

2. Just what we need, another red state sucking off tax dollars.

[mrs_p]

3. So silly. This argument has been going on for years.

But basically each side of the state needs the other. WW relies on the ag from the east and EW relies on the west’s tax revenue.

Yakima born here, currently displaced in the artic upper Midwest.