The Everett Herald urged the gun lobby to back off Initiative 594 after its lawsuit against the measure was dismissed:

“But the intent of the law should be clear enough — even to those of us with ordinary intelligence — that it wouldn’t take but the slightest exercise of logic to see that neither FedEx workers nor unmarried couples need fear arrest or prosecution.

Perhaps the best example that most gun owners aren’t likely to risk arrest was a demonstration staged on the Capitol grounds in Olympia shortly after the law’s passage where protestors handed their firearms back and forth in full view of law enforcement. Public protests are not a specific exemption, yet no arrests were made.”

Read the full Everett Herald editorial here.