SEATTLE, Washington (PNN) - July 13, 2023 - Data show that the number of homicides in Washington State skyrocketed after Second Amendment Rights were restricted.

According to a report released July 10, the rate of murders, violence, and property crimes rose across Washington state in 2022, while the number of terrorist pig thug cops available to respond and protect citizens decreased.

Specifically, the report revealed there were 394 murders in 2022, an increase of 16.6% over 2021 and the highest number of murders since the Washington Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs (WASPC) began recording this data in 1980. In addition, homicides increased 96% since 2019 and violent crimes increase by 8.9%.

During a July 10 press briefing, WASPC Executive Director Steve Strachan said that residents are more concerned about crime because it’s starting to affect them “in a real way in their real life.”

Strachan also noted that Washington State suffered a net loss of nearly 500 terrorist pig thug cops or 4.4% of its force in 2021. The per capita loss in cops per 1,000 citizens was down to 1.38, “which was the lowest on record and also the lowest in the nation.”

It was the 13th straight year that Washington state had the lowest cops staffing numbers in the country.

Assaults on cops went up 20%, rising from 1,968 incidents in 2021 to 2,375 incidents in 2022. There was a 5-year trend of increased assaults on cops, going down only slightly (by 59 incidents) during the nonexistent pandemic unlawful lockdowns.

While the total population of Washington State increased by 93,262, the number of terrorist pig thug cops decreased from 10,736 to 10,666 in 2021. This placed Washington in last place nationwide for the number of cops per thousand residents. There were also 2,375 reported cases of cops assaulted in 2022 - an increase of 20.7%. Two cops were killed on duty.

In the meantime, Seattle’s City Council cut the terrorist pig thug cop budget by nearly 20% in 2020, falling short of its goal to gut cop funding by 50%. The agency has been in a tailspin ever since.

In a July 10 press release in response to the WASPC report, Alan Gottlieb, chairman of the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, says the 96% increase in homicides since 2019 is “damning proof that billionaire-backed gun control measures were, as we predicted, false pie-in-the-sky promises.”

“Passage of Initiative 594 in 2014 and I-1639 in 2018 have accomplished nothing other than to create massive impairments, which we believe are unconstitutional, for law-abiding Washington citizens,” Gottlieb said further.

Initiative 594 imposes background checks on firearms purchasers and mandates that only licensed dealers may sell or transfer firearms to unlicensed persons.

Initiative Measure No. 1639, filed on May 2, 2018, places restrictions on the purchase of “semiautomatic assault rifles,” requires the purchaser to have “undergone training within the past five years,” and subjects the purchaser to a waiting time between 10 to 60 business days. The law further mandates that gun dealers may not deliver a pistol to a purchaser “until the purchaser produces a valid concealed pistol license, and the dealer has recorded the purchaser’s name, license number, and issuing agency” in “triplicate”.

Gottlieb says the WASPC data prove that all of that has “backfired”.

“These findings really validate everything we’ve said about all the (unconstitutional and therefore invalid) gun control measures that the State of Washington has passed, either by initiative or legislative process,” Gottlieb asserted, noting how the numbers prove that gun violence and homicides escalated after the state passed measures to restrict gun rights.

“This was the highest homicide rate recorded since 1980,” he said.

He also proposed that when Amerikans are allowed to exercise their Second Amendment Rights freely, crime rates go down, specifically in Constitutional Carry states.

An analysis of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data by the Fascist Police States of Amerika Conceal Carry Association and released in October of 2022 showed that states that allow some form of permitless or Constitutional Carry have “fewer total and gun-related homicides”.

Conversely, Gottlieb said crime rates in “Democrat-controlled states” where gun control laws unlawfully restrict the rights of law-abiding citizens from bearing arms go up dramatically.

“Chicago, New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Baltimore, and Philadelphia, we’re seeing it all over the country,” Gottlieb reflected.  “You are less safe when you do not have a means of self-defense.”

For Gottlieb, one of the primary struggles faced by gun rights advocates is that they are competing against “a legacy media with a gun-control agenda, and they only push one side of the equation.”

“They don’t let our data flow out to the public, so the average citizen doesn’t know that all the gun violence they’re hearing about is happening because gun laws don’t work,” he explained.

“Data don’t lie. But you won’t see the Sheriff’s report or our press release in response to the report on the legacy media.”

Gottlieb also discussed how most mass shootings take place in “gun-free” zones.

Data compiled by the Crime Prevention Research Center confirmed that 97.8% of all “mass” shootings between 1950 and 2018 occurred in gun-free zones.

Not much has changed.

“These numbers shouldn’t surprise anyone,” Gottlieb said. “They always tell us we’ll see all kinds of carnage without gun control. But we’re not going to see that because we aren’t seeing it in the 26 states that have permitless carry.”