A bit of history - from Dave Workman writing at the Examiner:
Can Mike Huckabee win a single Washington vote?
Yesterday, CNN ran a story that wondered whether former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee can win back his Iowa flock as the conservative Republican starts shifting into campaign mode, while today’s Rasmussen Report says he “has the best chance of getting the GOP presidential nomination of the three new contenders in the race this week.”
Not so fast, there, Mike. His announcement dredged up a bitter memory for the Evergreen State, one that could become a campaign issue.
A more provocative question, one that is hardly beneath CNN, is whether Huckabee will find a single vote in Washington State, where hard feelings still linger about what happened to four Lakewood police officers at a coffee shop on Nov. 29, 2009. There, a recidivist criminal named Maurice Clemmons – for whom Huckabee had commuted a 108-year prison sentence in May 2000 to 47 years, five months and 19 days – opened fire and killed all four. He was armed with two handguns including one that had been reported stolen in Seattle.
As a convicted felon, paroled in July 2000 by unanimous approval of the Arkansas Parole Board and released a couple of weeks later, Clemmons could not legally possess firearms. He had two, the 9mm pistol and a .38-caliber revolver, both recovered at the crime scene. Clemmons took a Glock pistol from one of the officers he murdered, and was carrying that gun when he was fatally shot about two days later by an alert Seattle police officer working the graveyard shift.
More at the link - the 47 year commutation allowed Clemmons to come up for Parole - with the original sentence of 108 years, he was not.
Also, he was carrying stolen guns - this is an issue that the Gun Control people completely avoid. Their idea of registration and background checks only apply to sane law-abiding citizens and has absolutely zero effect on the mentally ill and the criminals. Looking at the last 20 cases of public shootings, the shooters have been either the mentally ill, fundamental Islamists (but I repeat myself) or simple career criminals.
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