Shootings that took place near a pizza restaurant in Tucson, Arizona, and a food festival in Seattle, Washington, occurred in places with a pattern of leniency involving firearm misuse.
Nine people were wounded in a July 19 shooting near Empire Pizza and Pub in Tucson, while three people were killed and four others were wounded during the Bite of Seattle food festival near the city’s iconic Space Needle. However, information after both shootings indicates that these shootings could have been prevented by locking people up for past firearm misuse. (RELATED: Watch Cop Bring Mass Shooter’s Rampage To Screeching Halt)
