History of Seattle From the Earliest Settlement to the Present Time; Volume 2

History of Seattle from the Earliest Settlement to the Present Time, Volume Two, which I started pouring through and found that there was in 1874, there was a group called the Seattle Amateur Rifle Association, which leased land for a range on current present day Capitol Hill,

I did some digging and found in a book called History of Seattle from the earliest settlement to the present time volume two which I started pouring through and found that there was uh in 1874 there was a group called the Seattle Amateur Rifle Association which leased land for a range on current present day capitol hill

I did some digging and found in a book called History of Seattle from the earliest settlement to the present time volume two which I started pouring through and found that there was in 1874 there was a group called the Seattle amateur rifle association which leased land for a range on current present day capitol hill like right where the train station is if you're familiar with the area so like right where protests always happen these days yeah later on there's record record in 1877 of the Seattle rifle team organizing and shooting contests and then later on in 1886 which is a number that probably rings a bell the chinese riots as they called them at the time uh happened which was sort of the start of the labor movement where everyone decided that chinese immigrants were the cause of all of our woes that the low wages being paid to chinese immigrants were because of chinese immigrants and not racism so they decided to run every person who looked chinese out of town literally uh they referred to this as the tacoma method and i'm guessing because that's what they did in tacoma exactly it started there and uh it was a february 7th of 1886 this massive angry racist mob tried to push all the chinese folks out of seattle or anyone they thought might look like chinese and they tried to push them onto a steamboat but there weren't there wasn't enough room for them all there um cops got involved a bunch of other stuff happened they decided no give them time in court but uh in the process of making this decision you know the racist got a mob together and we're basically just going to try and put a stop to this before they the legal proceedings could to go forward so they reached out to local allies in arms they had the home guards which i'm not exactly sure exactly what the home guards were but i assume there's something related to national guard later on or maybe just an extension of military but the home guards and the seattle rifles as well as the university cadets which i'm assuming are of course soldiers in training and uh pulled them all out and made a community self-defense group out of them they put a rifle line and held the mob back and enabled those folks to get you know safely to have their day in court and then to protect them for a while afterward they actually organized uh a sort of a watch because they didn't have enough police to to manage the mob they used folks from the seattle rifles and these other groups to uh to sort of bolster the police forces and keep peace in the town so the sort of thing that we do is long standing historical presence but i think there's a lot of things you can look at the history of and sort of take lessons from so um as as fray mentioned a unified response is of course a huge benefit of having a huge strength of having an organized armed group and it's it's literally if someone reaches out and says we need help help is available but there are a lot of weaknesses uh businesses and clubs can be held liable legally and this is an endemic problem within gun laws it stands the laws are written such that they effectively they're that it comes down to situational context to determine how a gun law should be enforced and the law will never be on the side of a group trying to abolish parts of the law so you have to be very careful about how you how especially an organized or formally organized armed group has to be very careful about how they put their their work in play with that in mind

History of Seattle from the Earliest Settlement to the Present Time, Volume Two

I did some digging and found in a book called History of Seattle from the Earliest Settlement to the Present Time, Volume Two which I started pouring through and found that there was in 1874 there was a group called the Seattle Amateur Rifle Association which leased land for a range on current present day Capitol Hill like right where the train station is if you're familiar with the area so like right where protests always happen these days yeah later on there's record record in 1877 of the Seattle Rifle Team organizing and shooting contests and then later on in 1886 which is a number that probably rings a bell the Chinese riots as they called them at the time uh happened which was sort of the start of the labor movement where everyone decided that Chinese immigrants were the cause of all of our woes that the low wages being paid to Chinese immigrants were because of Chinese immigrants and not racism so they decided to run every person who looked Chinese out of town literally uh they referred to this as the Tacoma method and I'm guessing because that's what they did in Tacoma exactly it started there and uh it was a February 7th of 1886 this massive angry racist mob tried to push all the Chinese folks out of Seattle or anyone they thought might look like Chinese and they tried to push them onto a steamboat but there weren't there wasn't enough room for them all there um cops got involved a bunch of other stuff happened they decided no give them time in court but uh in the process of making this decision you know the racist got a mob together and we're basically just going to try and put a stop to this before they the legal proceedings could to go forward so they reached out to local allies in arms they had the home guards which I'm not exactly sure exactly what the home guards were but I assume there's something related to national guard later on or maybe just an extension of military but the home guards and the Seattle rifles as well as the university cadets which I'm assuming are of course soldiers in training and uh pulled them all out and made a community self-defense group out of them they put a rifle line and held the mob back and enabled those folks to get you know safely to have their day in court and then to protect them for a while afterward they actually organized uh a sort of a watch because they didn't have enough police to to manage the mob they used folks from the Seattle rifles and these other groups to uh to sort of bolster the police forces and keep peace in the town so the sort of thing that we do is long standing historical presence but I think there's a lot of things you can look at the history of and sort of take lessons from so um as as fray mentioned a unified response is of course a huge benefit of having a huge strength of having an organized armed group and it's it's literally if someone reaches out and says we need help help is available but there are a lot of weaknesses uh businesses and clubs can be held liable legally and this is an endemic problem within gun laws it stands the laws are written such that they effectively they're that it comes down to situational context to determine how a gun law should be enforced and the law will never be on the side of a group trying to abolish parts of the law so you have to be very careful about how you how especially an organized or formally organized armed group has to be very careful about how they put their their work in play with that in mind

I did some digging and found in a book called History of Seattle from the Earliest Settlement to the Present Time, Volume Two

i did some digging and found in a book called history of seattle from the earliest settlement to the present time volume two which i started pouring through and found that there was uh in 1874 there was a group called the seattle amateur rifle association which leased land for a range on current present day capitol hill um like right where the train station is if you're familiar with the area so like right where protests always happen these days yeah later on there's record record in 1877 of the seattle rifle team organizing and shooting contests and then later on in 1886 which is a number that probably rings the bell the chinese riots as they called them at the time uh happened which was sort of the start of the labor movement where everyone decided that chinese immigrants were the cause of all of our woes that the low wages being paid to chinese immigrants were because of chinese immigrants and not racism so they decided to run every person who looked chinese out of town literally uh they referred to this as the tacoma method and i'm guessing because that's what they did in tacoma exactly it started there and uh it was a february 7th of 1886 this massive angry racist mob tried to push all the chinese folks out of seattle or anyone they thought might look like chinese and they tried to push them onto a steamboat but there weren't there wasn't enough room for them all there um cops got involved a bunch of other stuff happened they decided no give them time in court but uh in the process of making this decision you know the racists got a mob together and were basically just going to try and put a stop to this before they the legal proceedings could to go forward so they reached out to local allies in arms they had the home guards which i'm not exactly sure exactly what the home guards were but i assume there's something related to national guard later on or maybe just an extension of military but the home guards and the seattle rifles as well as the university cadets which i'm assuming are of course soldiers in training and uh pulled them all out and made a community self-defense group out of them they put a rifle line and held the mob back and enabled those folks to get you know safely to have their day in court um and then to protect them for a while afterward they actually organized uh a uh sort of a watch because they didn't have enough police to to manage the mob they used folks from the seattle rifles and these other groups to uh to sort of bolster the police forces and keep peace in the town so the sort of thing that we do is long-standing historical presence but i think there's a lot of things you can look at the the history of and sort of take lessons from so

I did some digging and found in a book called History of Seattle from the earliest settlement to the present time volume two which I started pouring through and found that there was in 1874 there was a group called the Seattle amateur rifle association which leased land for a range on current present day capitol hill like right where the train station is if you're familiar with the area so like right where protests always happen these days yeah later on there's record record in 1877 of the Seattle rifle team organizing and shooting contests and then later on in 1886 which is a number that probably rings a bell the chinese riots as they called them at the time uh happened which was sort of the start of the labor movement where everyone decided that chinese immigrants were the cause of all of our woes that the low wages being paid to chinese immigrants were because of chinese immigrants and not racism so they decided to run every person who looked chinese out of town literally uh they referred to this as the tacoma method and i'm guessing because that's what they did in tacoma exactly it started there and uh it was a february 7th of 1886 this massive angry racist mob tried to push all the chinese folks out of seattle or anyone they thought might look like chinese and they tried to push them onto a steamboat but there weren't there wasn't enough room for them all there um cops got involved a bunch of other stuff happened they decided no give them time in court but uh in the process of making this decision you know the racist got a mob together and we're basically just going to try and put a stop to this before they the legal proceedings could to go forward so they reached out to local allies in arms they had the home guards which i'm not exactly sure exactly what the home guards were but i assume there's something related to national guard later on or maybe just an extension of military but the home guards and the seattle rifles as well as the university cadets which i'm assuming are of course soldiers in training and uh pulled them all out and made a community self-defense group out of them they put a rifle line and held the mob back and enabled those folks to get you know safely to have their day in court and then to protect them for a while afterward they actually organized uh a sort of a watch because they didn't have enough police to to manage the mob they used folks from the seattle rifles and these other groups to uh to sort of bolster the police forces and keep peace in the town so the sort of thing that we do is long standing historical presence but i think there's a lot of things you can look at the history of and sort of take lessons from so um as as fray mentioned a unified response is of course a huge benefit of having a huge strength of having an organized armed group and it's it's literally if someone reaches out and says we need help help is available but there are a lot of weaknesses uh businesses and clubs can be held liable legally and this is an endemic problem within gun laws it stands the laws are written such that they effectively they're that it comes down to situational context to determine how a gun law should be enforced and the law will never be on the side of a group trying to abolish parts of the law so you have to be very careful about how you how especially an organized or formally organized armed group has to be very careful about how they put their their work in play with that in mind