{"id":59725,"date":"2020-09-17T10:08:41","date_gmt":"2020-09-17T15:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=59725"},"modified":"2020-09-17T10:08:41","modified_gmt":"2020-09-17T15:08:41","slug":"59725","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=59725","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Snohomish County looking to expand no-shooting zones after stray bullet nearly hits child<\/a><\/p>\n

After a stray bullet nearly hit a 4-year-old girl in Monroe, Snohomish County Councilmember Sam Low has introduced an emergency ordinance that would expand the no-shooting zone around the city. Now, the council wants to hear from the public. Low joined the Jason Rantz Show on KTTH to discuss.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a growing area of Monroe up on the hill. There\u2019s been about 800 homes added in the last several years in this area that used to be just kind of rolling hills and nothing else there. All of a sudden, we have all this development there, and over the last few years we\u2019ve had several shooting incidents. The last two over the last year and a half have been bullets that have come from unincorporated county into the city and hitting residences in the city,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

It seems that the shootings haven\u2019t been nefarious in nature but are accidental, often occurring around the holidays from stray bullets.<\/p>\n

\u201cIronically, on both of these that have hit houses, they\u2019ve actually happened on holidays. So the last one happened on July 4 of this year, and the previous one happened on December 31 a year and a half ago. So it appears there\u2019s a couple of yahoos or people that just like to go shooting and shoot a little haphazardly on holidays. And maybe that\u2019s what\u2019s contributing to this,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

In the city of Monroe, outdoor shooting is already illegal, but the bullets have been coming from unincorporated areas, which is why they\u2019re trying to expand the no-shooting zone.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll of our cities are no-shooting areas and actually almost all of our urban growth areas are no-shooting areas too, with the exception of this area of Monroe. In 1991 when this was last looked at, it was a very unpopulated area. Now almost 30 years later, and there\u2019s just a tremendous amount of development,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m a big supporter of our Second Amendment rights and a big supporter of guns,\u201d he added. \u201cAnd yet there\u2019s a right place to shoot and a proper place to shoot, and right next to a residential neighborhood with a bunch of kids \u2014 there\u2019s about 40-some kids in this neighborhood \u2014 is just not a good area to be haphazard with guns.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Snohomish County looking to expand no-shooting zones after stray bullet nearly hits child After a stray bullet nearly hit a 4-year-old girl in Monroe, Snohomish County Councilmember Sam Low has introduced an emergency ordinance that would expand the no-shooting zone around the city. Now, the council wants to hear from the public. Low joined the … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-safety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59726,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59725\/revisions\/59726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}