Jay Inslee Research Paper

Governor of Washington, Jay Inslee, has encountered numerous issues throughout his political career. Starting at the bottom aas a city prosecutor in Selah, Washington, he grew through the ranks to hold a position in the House of Representatives until resignation in March 2012, to focus on his campaign for governor ("Jay Inslee", Ballotpedia). Since elected as governor, Inslee has started a gun safety initiative for the state of Washington. In his initiative, he wants to expand background checks when purchasing a firearm in hope of reducign the fatalities due to teh lack of gun safety. On this issue, Governor Inslee has displayed a significant amount of political courage for pursuing to amend a constitutional right.
Jay Inslee grew up in Seattle, Washington, and even went to college at the University of Washington working towards a
Inslee showed his courageous actions through this initiative when he said, "While Congress has failed for years to make progress on reducing gun violence, we are not afraid to take action in Washington state," at a Burien news conference. From the data Inslee's office found on gun related violence in teh years 2012-2014, 665 people died per year due to firearms compared to the 495 people that die in car accidents (Thompson, "Inslee calls for strengthening background checks of gun buyers"). Further information showed that approximately 80% of these gun related deaths were succomb by suicide. Inslee's initiative was not only about strenghtening background checks with the purchase of firearms, it was what he called a "public health approach" to gun violence (Groover, "Here's What Governor Jay Inslee's Executive Order on Gun Violence Will Do"). Governor Inslee wanted to create a suicide prevention plan by restricting gun control including having assessments for depression for people on