Beacon Hill Library is quirky architecture at its worst.

Beacon Hill Library is quirky architecture at its worst. MALCOLM SMITH

The guns of Seattle will not stop! The most recent victims of the NRA’s obsession with the Second Amendment are two men and the Beacon Hill Library. All three, it is reported, are likely to see another day in America, the land where the guns never sleep.

Charles Mudede—who writes about film, books, music, and his life in Rhodesia, Zimbabwe, the USA, and the UK for The Stranger—was born near a steel plant in Kwe Kwe, Zimbabwe. He has no memory...