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It is so sad to contemplate the horrific incident Wednesday evening in Sand Point and Lake City. The level of denial from the mayor of Seattle in the wake of the heartbreaking shooting is unbelievable to watch.

You know the story by now, I’m sure. A guy with a gun shot a driver, then shot a Metro bus driver — who is a true hero and saved his passengers — then shot and killed a driver, carjacked the driver’s car, and led police on a high-speed chase, during which he crashed into and killed a second driver.

I was in awe as I listened to Seattle Deputy Police Chief Marc Garth-Green during Wednesday’s press conference. He is a wonderful communicator. He had no notes. He had obviously gotten this information from dozens of sources, and put together a timeline for the public to understand what exactly happened and when it happened.

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I was not in awe as I listened to Mayor Jenny Durkan at the same press conference. In her opening minute, she decided to turn this into a political anti-gun moment. I get it. For some people, you don’t like the Second Amendment.

But since we’re never going to get the guns out of the hands of people who shouldn’t have them, don’t you think it is a good thing that law-abiding individuals can defend themselves?

Not only did she immediately turn this into a gun violence issue, but everything about her was completely tone-deaf in the hours after this horrible tragedy — like when she said that the shooter destroyed the peace of “quiet, sleepy Lake City.”

Yeah, I drive through Lake City every day, and I’ve watched it descend into a drug-filled nightmare.

Then she said, “We will continue to work with you.” Oh, you’re doing a fantastic job, Madame Mayor, in this city. I don’t think your reality is any different than mine, but your delusions are much greater.

A few years ago, I witnessed a man in a Lake City parking lot shooting heroin between his toes. Last week, a listener sent us a picture that she took of a guy who looked like he had a hospital bracelet and a hospital gown dangling out of his unkempt clothes, and who was standing in the middle of one of Lake City’s busiest intersections, waving a screwdriver and threatening people.

A few months ago, there was the sad story of the couple defecating in the concrete planters in Lake City. That’s the reality of this neighborhood, and of the whole city. When you say you’ll “continue to work” with everyone, just stop — you are part of the machine that is allowing Seattle to descend into a snake pit.

It got even worse from there.

“I want everyone to know, this is a safe community,” Durkan said. It was just like her reaction to the KOMO 4 “Seattle is Dying” special. We’re all seeing the realities, and Jenny Durkan, as long as you’re going to bury your head in the sand, we don’t have a chance.

Two people have been murdered and two more are lying in Harborview with injuries. We don’t need to hear how safe our city is. We need to hear, “I understand what’s happening on the streets, I know that there is more property crime in Seattle than any major city in the country, I understand that these random violent crimes are happening with less than random frequency, and I understand that our lax drug policies have contributed to the degradation of our cities.”

She needs to admit that we have a problem and then actually deal with it. In the aftermath of yet another tragedy, we have a mayor whose attitude is, “See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.”

Why is all of this this happening? Why, across the entire Puget Sound, do we have politicians who stick their heads in the sand and pretend everything is fine?

On Wednesday, we got the news that the state is raising the age to purchase tobacco products from 18 to 21. I support this. I hate the tobacco companies — I think they’re evil. It’s the only product legally sold that, when properly used, kills the user — to the tune of tens of thousands of people a year.

Here’s what’s odd, though. If you’re 18 and live in King or Snohomish County, you can have small amounts of heroin or meth, but you can’t buy a pack of cigarettes. It just illustrates the much larger problem.

How in the world can we have a region that has legalized personal possession amounts of hard drugs, but requires you to be 21 to buy a pack of smokes? Why can’t our politicians get together with our prosecutors and decide to get as tough on heroin as they are on tobacco? Well, there is a concerted effort to make this the drug magnet of the United States.

So why is that? Let me continue.

As you know, our public officials want to have heroin injection sites in King County, where addicts can go and inject poison into their veins under the watchful eye of government. They want to make it as easy as possible to be a heroin addict, just like what’s happening in Vancouver, B.C. at a place called , which allows you to legally inject yourself with heroin.

Last weekend, Vancouver firefighters responded to . But they have a “safe” injection site in Vancouver, so how could there be all of these overdoses on the street? Could it be that when you make it as easy as possible to be a heroin addict, more people become heroin addicts?

How could a politician around here still endorse so-called safe injection sites after what happened in Vancouver last weekend? How could they still endorse allowing personal possession amounts of heroin? Why would there be a concerted effort to make Seattle and the Puget Sound area the same as Vancouver?

Well, who is behind the heroin death site in Vancouver? It’s George Soros. Here in Seattle, we have one person on the council who is completely controlled by Socialist Alternative.

Socialist Alternative has stated that its goal is the destruction of the city. Once there is that destruction and the anarchy that comes with it, they can rebuild Seattle in their Marxist image. They stated that they do not like the police department, but that the only way they’ll get a Marxist police department is if things get bad enough in Seattle.

So, how do you destroy a place that used to have safe streets? You must destroy a society from within, and one of the surest ways to do that is by filling the city with drug addicts, crime, and desperation.

I personally believe that George Soros hates America. He has talked in the past about wanting to legalize drugs. I truly believe that the reason we have seen such destruction of wide swaths of this region is not because of politicians who are clueless, but because it is a pathway to eventually tear things down and rebuild society in a Marxist image.

Do you think that this is all just randomness? Do you really think that in Seattle we have just stumbled into the situation that we’re in? Or do you think that there may just be something afoot that has led to an absolutely tragic consequence throughout our region?