Why Washington state's constitution bans armed militias
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...
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