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Shootings that took place near a pizza restaurant in Tucson, Arizona, and a food festival in Seattle, Washington, occurred in places with a pattern of leniency involving firearm misuse.<\/p>

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Nine people were wounded in a July 19 shooting near Empire Pizza and Pub in Tucson, while three people were killed and four others were wounded during the Bite of Seattle food festival near the city\u2019s iconic Space Needle. However, information after both shootings indicates that these shootings could have been prevented by locking people up for past firearm misuse. (RELATED: Watch Cop Bring Mass Shooter\u2019s Rampage To Screeching Halt)<\/strong><\/p>

The alleged shooter in Tucson, 21-year-old David Leroy French, is a felon who previously received probation after being convicted on charges related to an incident where he fired a rifle at a car wash employee in 2024, according to the Arizona Daily Star and a statement by Pima County Attorney Laura Conover. Instead of serving two to nine years in prison for firing a gun, French was put on probation.<\/p>

Democratic Tucson Mayor Regina Romero blamed \u201ceasy access to guns and Arizona\u2019s weak gun safety laws\u201d in a statement posted the day of the shooting, with Democratic Arizona Rep. Adelita Grijalva attacking pro-Second Amendment groups for blocking \u201ccommon sense gun safety reform\u201d in a post on Facebook.<\/p>

Conveniently, Romero and Grijalva don\u2019t direct any anger toward the judge who imposed the lenient sentence, or admit that someone convicted of violent felonies can\u2019t possess guns because that would violate federal law.<\/p>

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In Seattle, we don\u2019t know much about the alleged perpetrators, one of whom is reportedly 15 years old, a second is at large and the third, a 19-year-old, was among those killed. In this case, though, there is a more damning pattern that KIRO-TV reporter Gary Horcher pointed out in a Monday post on X: State laws involving juveniles misusing firearms to commit crimes require authorities to give those charged many breaks.<\/p>

\u201cWashington State law says a juvenile can be arrested for gun possession five times, with five different guns for five different gun-related crimes, before a judge even has the legal option to send a teen to detention for longer than 30 days,\u201d Horcher posted, linking to a May 2025 article describing several incidents, including one where a 16-year-old charged in a murder had twice been arrested for possessing stolen firearms but was let out both times.<\/p>

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In another case Horcher detailed, three kids ages 14 and younger were caught with pistols that had been illegally converted to fire full auto but were let loose. Never mind the fact that the National Firearms Act has big-time penalties for having unregistered fully-automatic firearms (and I doubt that ATF would allow 14-year-olds to even send in the form to legally convert firearms to full auto).<\/p>

\u201cThey just assume nothing\u2019s going to happen to them. And you know what? They\u2019re right most of the time,\u201d former Seattle Police Department homicide detective Cloyd Steiger told Horcher in the May 2025 article, adding, \u201cTo wait five convictions is outrageous!\u201d<\/p>

Seattle Police Chief Shon Barnes hinted that the issue involved with the Bite of Seattle shooting was gangs shortly before he was reportedly fired by Democratic Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson over frequent trips to Chicago, where his family lives. Wilson asked for Barnes\u2019 resignation Thursday, KIRO TV reported.<\/p>

\u201cThe problem of gun violence is worsened by small groups,\u201d Police Chief Shon Barnes told reporters during a Monday news conference. \u201cWe have small groups that appear to be at odds with each other, and in our city 0.01% of the population is connected to 52% of our shootings.\u201d<\/p>

You think people would have learned after the Parkland shooting, where reports quickly surfaced that Nikolas Cruz, the shooter, had previously been expelled from school after ammunition was discovered in his backpack. Cruz was never arrested, even though he had arguably violated the Gun-Free School Zones Act. <\/p>

We wonder why these shootings happen. All too often, the answer is that those who misuse guns don\u2019t get locked up when they\u2019re caught the first time, and then anti-Second Amendment politicians want gun owners to accept punishment for crimes that would otherwise not have happened.<\/p>

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