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Why Washington state’s constitution bans armed militias Before statehood, mob violence and labor suppression raised serious questions about who had the right to maintain public order. by Updated at 9:51 AM Jan. 21, 2021 Demonstrators with rifles slung across their backs attend a rally by gun-rights advocates in 2014, in Olympia, Wash. The armed protest drew members of the Three Percenters, a militia movement and paramilitary group described as having right-libertarian and far-right ideology. (Rachel La Corte/AP) In 1888, a confrontation in the coal-mining town of Roslyn, in Kittitas County...