John Russell Houser Lafayette Theater Shooting Hoax Exposed (Redsilverj)
Danielle Leigh, KING 5 News 10:23 a.m. PDT July 25, 2015
The group Moms Demand Action held small rally in Downtown Seattle on July 24, 2015, in response to a shooting at a Louisiana movie theater.(Photo: KING)
Moms who support gun control rallied outside theaters nationwide Friday in response to the shooting in Louisiana.
In Seattle, a small group of moms gathered outside the Regal Cinemas downtown.
Those moms were passing out small flyers asking people to call their lawmakers in favor of gun control.
"It"s almost like the wind has been knocked out of you," said Cathy Munsen, a mom with the group Moms Demand Action. "I just think it could have been any of us in that theater."
Munsen gave up her Friday to talk with potential voters passing the theater downtown.
Specifically, she was asking voters to ask Congress to close a provision in the federal background check law that allows gun sales to proceed after three business days even if a background check is incomplete.
Munsen admitted it would not have prevented the shooting in Lafayette but she said it may have prevented the recent shooting in Charleston, South Carolina.
"In this country we have no higher rate of mental illness. We have no higher rate of criminals. What we have is a very easy access to guns," argued Munsen.
Alan Gottlieb founded the Second Amendment Foundation in Bellevue.
Gottlieb shares in Munsen"s outrage over the violence but as a supporter of gun rights, he disagrees with her solution.
"No one wants these things to happen but the other side feels like the answer is to take people"s rights and freedoms away," Gottlieb said. "In a free society, that is not the way to do it. It"s obvious more gun control isn"t going to solve this problem. It might stop a gun from getting in but it may not stop something else."
As the shooting prompts renewed focus on the gun debate, other Seattleites responded to the shooting with a much more subtle message.
A drummer who goes by Josh "Beatstock" Orion played just a block from the Regal Cinemas. He said he hoped his music brought people joy following the tragedy.
"I like to consider playing downtown kind of like missionary work," Beatstock Orion said. "Every time I hear bad news it makes me want to grab my drum. If love hides under a bed, hate wins. You have got to get up every day and dust yourself off and keep going."
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