Posted on 11/17/2016 3:53:23 AM PST by marktwain
In 2016, Nevada was one of four states facing Michael Bloomberg funded attacks on Second Amendment rights. As with most such attacks, deceit and misdirection were the focus. Outright lies were repeated endlessly. Much was made of bogus “studies” that were carried out by activists behind the flimsiest of academic cover. Second Amendment defenders in Nevada were outspent 3 to 1 in cash outlays, 19.7 million dollars to 6.6 million from Second Amendment supporters, primarily the NRA.
The key to the proposition was what it was being marketed as doing, compared to what it would really do.
On that question, cash was merely the tip of the iceberg. The direct media support for the Bloomberg measure was immense. Never has the media been so overtly partisan as in 2016. That was reflected in the broadcast media in Nevada, which showed itself to be focused in favor of the gun control proposition. The media situation was similar to the media situation in Washington State in 2014, where a similar measure was passed with Bloomberg money.
Proponents claimed that the measure would only require “background checks” and that it would stop criminals and the mentally ill from obtaining firearms. Both promises were misleading. But it is hard to convey the complexity of the falsehoods in the face of brazen media complicity in the big lie.
First, background checks have never correlated with reduced crime. They do not work. States that instituted background checks have not seen crime reductions.
Second, the measure required far more than background checks. It would have been easy to design a system where background checks were done, without recording sensitive information such as gun owner identities and gun serial numbers. Instead, the proposal in Nevada specifically demands that this information
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The people that sponsor these outrageous bills need to be run out of office.
Duh, SUCK IT UP BUTTER CUPS! They can kiss my Southern Grits, and pry my gun out of my cold dead hands. Thank GOD I live in Open Carry Tennessee. Home of No State Income Tax, balanced budgets, and GOP controlled House, Senate, and Gov, even if he’s a RINO. Trump can do us all a big favor send Sen Corker to an unimportant Amb job. The RINO wants to be the next gov. WE don’t want him. RINO DELUXE, worse than the one we have now.
I remember back around 1968 it was suggested all the Hippies move to Nevada. The population then was so small the Hippies could take over and run it the way they wanted to.
Now the libs from Cali have taken over.
Nevada,- home of- Harry’s mind “Snapped years ago” Reid.
Why didn’t the article just say up front in the first paragraph that this is a thinly-disguised registration scheme?
So a modern hydraulic empire to some degree?
I think so. I’m not familiar with all of the water rights issues, but one thing I do know is that I will never live anywhere without unlimited and almost free water, which is what I have here in VA.
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Your definition (whatever it is) is wrong.
"Urbanization" = "Concentration of population into cities"
Go to the top of one of Las Vegas' tallest hotels and look out: the city reaches a limit -- and abruptly stops. Beyond that point is only empty desert.
Almost all of NV's population is in two cities.
You described the situation appropriately; you just reached the wrong conclusion.
Las Vegas and Reno have lots of union voters. And illegals.
Which is why we need Electoral Votes awarded by Congressional District, so the rest of the state has SOME voice in elections.
Nevada has four CG districts and six EVs. So one for each district and the remaining two to the winner. Going by that measure, worse case scenario, Las Vegas would only deliver four and not six (every little bit helps).
This just shows how the tail wags the dog.
Lotsa luck trying to get it through the legislature at this time, though.
Probably suffers from the “pink plague” from California, overrunning the voter registration.
Once they succeed with this crap in one place, they try it in others.
Hopefully a conservative federal judiciary overturns this crap.
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