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Bill Gates Is Going Up Against The NRA
BI - VentureBeat ^ | 8-27-2014 | Gregory Ferenstein

Posted on 08/27/2014 7:42:12 AM PDT by blam

Gregory Ferenstein, VentureBeat
August 27, 2014

Bill Gates is opening up his considerable piggy bank in Silicon Valley’s fight against the National Rifle Association. The Microsoft billionaire donated $1 million to Initiative 594, which will require criminal background checks for firearm sales.

Gates joins a long line of high-profile activists in the fighting the powerful gun lobby. Michael Bloomberg’s plans post mayoral duties include large campaigns for gun control. Noted Facebook investor Ron Conway has made gun reform his signature political cause, championing hackathons to prevent gun violence and spearheading a venture project for innovative anti-violence technology.

For Gates, this may be a simple donation, or the start of something much larger.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; banglist; billgates; billofrights; commoncore; corporateliberalism; gatesfoundation; guncontrol; guns; nra; secondamendment; secondammendment
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1 posted on 08/27/2014 7:42:12 AM PDT by blam
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To: blam

Boycott and destroy Microsoft. They are against the American republic on every front. A cheap Chinese knockoff would be a more moral choice. Gates is trash.


2 posted on 08/27/2014 7:47:07 AM PDT by formosa
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To: formosa

Bill Gates is showing how liberal he is.


3 posted on 08/27/2014 7:48:18 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego (s)
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To: blam
The Microsoft billionaire donated $1 million to Initiative 594, which will require criminal background checks for firearm sales.

We already have that, except between individuals.

The honest thing to do would be to admit it.

4 posted on 08/27/2014 7:52:10 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The man who damns money obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it earned it." --Ayn Rand)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

His Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is staffed with former members of the Clinton Administration, so yeah, he is turning into a liberal.


5 posted on 08/27/2014 7:52:43 AM PDT by Slyfox (Satan's goal is to rub out the image of God he sees in the face of every human.)
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To: blam

I mean....doesn’t everyone have bodyguards?


6 posted on 08/27/2014 7:52:49 AM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Gates can afford to be a liberal.

Peasants like us who try to work for a living are the ones getting it in the backside.


7 posted on 08/27/2014 7:53:57 AM PDT by headstamp 2
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To: blam

Bitch ass punk!!!!


8 posted on 08/27/2014 7:54:26 AM PDT by Busko (One thing is certain, nothing is certain.)
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To: Slyfox

“Turning”????

Nope, always has been. His Dad’s the “Gates” of Preston-Gates, a noted Democratic lobbying law firm.


9 posted on 08/27/2014 7:54:45 AM PDT by tanknetter
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To: BookmanTheJanitor

If he wants to go against the NRA he will have to ditch his personal armed bodyguards. All of them. If not, I REALLY HOPE someone out there is smart enough to photograph him with his BG’s and the guns they have holstered, then proceed to smear him for being a hypocrite.

I’m tired of this crap of being demonized when I have not committed one felony. Just because we are NRA doesn’t mean we are criminals. Liberals call Conversatives racists? Well, Liberals are PREJUDICE. ALL OF THEM.


10 posted on 08/27/2014 7:55:26 AM PDT by InsidiousMongo
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To: blam
He'll lose.

BTW, anyone wanna wonder whether Bill Gates has armed security for himself?


11 posted on 08/27/2014 7:56:53 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: formosa

Use Linux.

I use Debian, but Ubuntu is a good system for linux newbies.


12 posted on 08/27/2014 8:04:25 AM PDT by the_boy_who_got_lost (Real men scare liberals)
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To: formosa

.

- MICROSOFT pulled some software they released

- “viruses” appear to be the big problem -

- Do not tell anyone of Bill Gates will mad -

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13 posted on 08/27/2014 8:05:47 AM PDT by devolve (- "If Obama puts on a USMC t-shirt to play basketball it does not mean he is not a silly pansy! -)
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To: blam

There are a lot of people out there that are asking , “Who is Bill Gates?’


14 posted on 08/27/2014 8:08:40 AM PDT by molson209 (Blank)
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To: blam

Bill feels qualified to advise the other 330 million Americans on 2nd Amendment rights seeing that his success as a multi-millionaire software nerd has made him a world renown expert on the US Constitution and firearms in general.


15 posted on 08/27/2014 8:09:15 AM PDT by Iron Munro (Democrats love poor blacks - that's why they keep them on the Plantation)
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To: SoFloFreeper

“BTW, anyone wanna wonder whether Bill Gates has armed security for himself?”

I have a friend of mine who left the SEALs and went to work for Gates. He later rejoined the Navy and is back with the SEALs.

The security force is bigger than many police departments and more heavily armed and equipped. And they train regularly.


16 posted on 08/27/2014 8:09:20 AM PDT by Stormdog (A rifle transforms one from subject to Citizen)
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To: formosa
No need to get a cheap Chinese knockoff. For the office suite, there is Oracle and it is free. For the browser, there are Opera and Safari.

His big money comes from selling his mediocre operating system with every computer sold.

17 posted on 08/27/2014 8:10:07 AM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: blam

2nd Amendment bump for later......


18 posted on 08/27/2014 8:11:50 AM PDT by indthkr
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19 posted on 08/27/2014 8:19:55 AM PDT by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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To: blam

Bill Gates... $1 million? That’s like me sending one penny in to some cause and then everyone claiming that I’m a big supporter of that cause.


20 posted on 08/27/2014 8:25:07 AM PDT by Cementjungle
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