Washington CeaseFire

Here's this week's recap of recent firearm violence in the news in Washington State.
Central Washington:

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Today in Illinois we saw yet another in a string of major shootings in the United States in the last two weeks. The shootings included:

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Last week Douglas Chanthabouly, who opened fire last year at Foss High School in Tacoma was found incompetent to stand trial. He has been diagnosed with schizophrenia by three separate psychiatrists. Douglas shot his friend Samnang Kok in the face from a distance of less than one foot as Samang retrieved his books from his locker.

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Recently we remembered one of our nation’s most transformative leaders and victims of gun violence. The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. inspired our nation. He inspired not through platitudes or hollow promises. On the contrary, Dr. King fully and openly laid bare dark and painful realities of our society at the time. But in the face of great challenge, Dr.

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As we approach our 25th year of serving Washington Communities, we thought it was time to get back to our roots: research, education and advocacy. Our new website is designed to facilitate that goal. We hope that our new website will provide both our membership and the community at large with up-to-date information about firearm violence as well as suggestions for what we all can do to make our communities safer.

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I got an email recently from the father of a young man whose life was tragically cut short by gun violence last year. He is making an effort to send updates about the trial of the young man accused of killing his son. The father wrote of how incredibly de-sensitized we are to gun violence.

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