Washington state Gov. Bob Ferguson has to have been happy with the gun control he’s seen take hold in his state in recent years. A noted anti-gunner himself, he’s watched as the Second Amendment has slowly been winnowed down.
However, there’s no reason to believe he’s done, either.
Between gun control and his support of weak enforcement of other laws, he’s creating a recipe for disaster in his state, and a veteran and former law enforcement officer just offered the governor a little perspective.
Since taking office, Washington Governor Bob Ferguson has doubled down on the legacy of his progressive predecessor, pushing forward aggressive gun control measures, supporting controversial criminal justice policies, and leaning heavily into a political playbook that many say has weakened law enforcement and emboldened criminals. His administration’s recent legislative moves have sparked backlash from sheriffs across the state, caused rifts within the Washington National Guard, and alienated a growing segment of law-abiding citizens, especially in rural and eastern parts of the state.
Now, one veteran and former law enforcement officer is speaking out.
In the open letter below, William D. Foster offers an unfiltered, boots-on-the-ground assessment of the Governor’s actions and their potential consequences. It’s part warning, part plea, and all frustration, echoing sentiments that many gun owners, first responders, and patriotic citizens across the country have been quietly sharing behind closed doors.
It’s a long open letter, and I’m not going to copy the whole thing because I don’t have permission to do so. However, I can hit some of the highlights.
For example, Foster points out that Ferguson doesn’t have the force to push his agenda too strongly, for one thing:
It took a lot of years of blood, sweat, and tears, in service to our nation as well as my community to gain the perspective needed to convey this to you. You need take a good, hard look internally at how you are conducting yourself here. Your Washington State Patrol (as honorable as they are) have been gutted by you and people in Olympia of your caliber. So, count them out. That leaves local law enforcement, and it’s well known that not all of them will follow you or your unconstitutional mandates. As someone who actually wore that uniform for a career, I wouldn’t follow you into a Dairy Queen for free ice cream, let alone follow your “orders.” A good chunk of the Washington Sheriff’s don’t care for you and won’t enforce your unconstitutional mandates. The Fed’s will be very selective while President Trump is in office. This means that the people who share your thought process and still currently occupy some of the ranks of federal law enforcement are sitting politically dormant because in the end, it’s about their paycheck and their little bit of power. Not much help for you there.
Now, let’s talk about your National Guard support. You have very limited Infantry support even less Military Police support. Remember, your Washington National Guard (WA. NG) rank and file are made of everyday citizens, most of whom couldn’t honestly care less if you drew your next breath of air, let alone risk their lives for you. Did you know that when you and your predecessor surrounded the state capitol with WA NG during the 2020 elections, those brave soldiers had absolutely zero intention of stopping any serious mobs that would have tried to get through? Yes sir, you really should get out more and get to know the people of the State of Washington, as you seem to know only Jack and Shit apparently, respectfully speaking. I’ve personally spoken with a few of them, and they are amazing people.
You do have a Special Forces contingent in the WA National Guard, but I really would not count on them to enforce your unconstitutional laws, as they are comprised of the best that the US Army has to offer, both militarily, as well as human beings in general. What does that leave you with sir?
At the end, though, Foster calls on Ferguson to do something that shouldn’t be necessary.
He calls on him to represent the whole of the people in Washington state, not just those who agree with him. Ferguson hasn’t done that. Most anti-gun governors don’t.
They don’t care about what the rest of the state needs. They don’t care about the rural communities that need things like guns to protect themselves because the one deputy on duty at three in the morning is 90 miles in the other direction when someone vicious comes a’calling. They don’t care about the little old ladies who have lived in the same house for 50 years and watched the neighborhood go downhill, who want a firearm to keep themselves from some horrific end by some whack job with an evil appetite and a desire for her social security money.
They don’t care about any of those people.
They don’t care because those people didn’t vote for them in the first place.
Ferguson should be reminded that many of the people he’d trust to step up and enforce the worst of the worst measures he might like to pass are people who simply won’t. They aren’t interested in getting shot enforcing laws they blatantly and vehemently disagree with, and they know that’s on the table. Seriously, why would they? Why would anyone?
My hope is that Ferguson listens, because we’ve got enough going on right now that the last thing we need is some constitutional crisis in Washington state because the anti-gun, pro-criminal governor there is trying to take people’s guns, and the state military and police forces are telling him to go pound sand.
We’ve got enough on our plate, so Gov. Ferguson? How about you just back the hell off, OK?
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