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Billionaire Microsoft co-founder and Seattle Seahawks owner Paul Allen just forked over $500,000 for Initiative 594, a gun control law that will be voted on this fall in Washington state. In WA, any citizen can draft legislation, and if enough signatures are collected by supporters, the law goes before the voters to be approved or rejected. This is the route by which the wacky tobacky was recently legalized here.
Bill Gates has donated $50,000. Nick Hanauer, an early investor in Amazon, tops the list, having donated $490,000 and having pledged to give $530,000 more. Steve Ballmer also gave $600,000.
Jim Sinegal of Costco donated just $10,000--I guess he is tapped out after spending $20 million to get booze sales legalized here in 2011.
On the other side, the 4,500 member Washington Council of Police and Sheriffs, along with the Washington State Law Enforcement Firearms Instructors Association, have announced opposition to I-594. Initiative 676 was a gun control initiative in 1997. It was overwhelmingly opposed by police, and that turned out to be key. I-676 went down by a whopping 71-29 margin.
I've been on the fence about voting for Hillary should she get the nomination, but this is one thing that will weigh heavily in her favor in making that decision.
When I read gun control I got excited and then I read the fine print and what this law does, are you ready for it?.... is to require background checks. No seriously, this is it.
Isn't this just common sense? You've got to be stone cold nut to be against this. Hasn't the gun nuts been saying we don't have a gun problem, we have a mental health problem? Well, here is a law that can help fix that.
Think about, people who are against this law is basically saying, "I don't give a S--- whether I'm selling my gun to a psycho and if my name ends up in CNN as the supplier, hell I just say, hey what he does with it is none of my business!"
The measure will also criminalize, with few exceptions, all temporary
transfers of possession of firearms that do not involve purchases, such as for
safekeeping, hunting, loan, recreational sharing, safety training, coaching,
transport, etc.
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The measure also requires that dealers who are facilitating gun transfers, be
they through the licensed dealer or a private seller, receive confirmation in
writing from the chief of police or sheriff that the purchaser in question "is
eligible to possess a
When I read gun control I got excited and then I read the fine print and what this law does, are you ready for it?.... is to require background checks. No seriously, this is it.
Isn't this just common sense? You've got to be stone cold nut to be against this. Hasn't the gun nuts been saying we don't have a gun problem, we have a mental health problem? Well, here is a law that can help fix that.
Think about, people who are against this law is basically saying, "I don't give a S--- whether I'm selling my gun to a psycho and if my name ends up in CNN as the supplier, hell I just say, hey what he does with it is none of my business!"
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The law is 18 pages long. You've got to be stone cold nuts to think that 18 pages can be perfectly and entirely summarized in three words: "require background checks."
I think this may prove to be a major hurdle for 1194. The rule of initiatives is, when in doubt voters vote "no." And complexity breeds doubt.
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