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Voters in WA State Pass Massive Gun Control Initiative
townhall.com ^ | 11/7/2018 | Beth Baumann

Posted on 11/07/2018 6:28:56 AM PST by rktman

For months, gun control advocates in Washington State have peddled initiative 1639, which moves to create stricter firearms laws. On Tuesday, 60 percent of Washingtonians voted in favor of ballot measure, the Seattle Times reported.

Specifically, i-1639 will:

• Raise the age someone can purchase a rifle to 21. • Create an "enhanced background check system similar to what is used for handguns." • Require a person to complete a firearms safety training course. • Create a common stand for secure gun storage.

Those in favor of the measure believe that even further gun laws will prevent mass shootings.

“My generation has been defined by gun violence. We have been defined by continued and repeated inaction by our elected officials,” Stephen Paolini, 22-year-old campaign manager for 1-1639, told supporters on Tuesday. “I hope tonight this victory is a message to our elected officials: Enough is enough.”

Alan Gottlieb, the Founder and Executive Vice President of the Second Amendment Foundation, said he's prepared to go to court to challenge the legality of the measure.

(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Philosophy; Politics/Elections; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: 115th; 2a; banglist; kaba; repealthe19th; wa; wa2018
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To: usurper

Oh, it’ll probably be just like that.


41 posted on 11/07/2018 9:14:44 AM PST by goodnesswins (White Privilege EQUALS Self Control & working 50-80 hrs/wk for 40 years!)
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To: kenmcg

What friggin’ idiots. There is absolutely zip, zero, nada in this bill that will stop a person intent on killing people.


Totally not the point. The point is for the inexorable march of incrementalism to one day confiscate all privately held firearms. Commies plan a century in advance.


42 posted on 11/07/2018 9:17:31 AM PST by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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To: rktman; Blood of Tyrants; mylife; Joe Brower; MaxMax; Randy Larsen; waterhill; Envisioning; ...
Those in favor of the measure believe that even further gun laws will prevent mass shootings.”

The same idiots believe laws prevent crime.

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43 posted on 11/07/2018 6:00:54 PM PST by PROCON ('Progressive' is a Euphemism for Totalitarian)
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To: usurper
I hope its not like the Washington State boating safety training that everyone who operates a watercraft must take.

I didn't have to take it.

44 posted on 11/07/2018 6:03:15 PM PST by steve86 (Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc O'Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
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To: PROCON

These people don’t deserve freedom.


45 posted on 11/07/2018 6:05:52 PM PST by TADSLOS (I hate Russian Dolls. They are so full of themselves.)
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To: TADSLOS
These people don’t deserve freedom.

I'm one of this state's citizens and we're fighting back.

This travesty won't pass Constitutional muster.

46 posted on 11/07/2018 6:40:50 PM PST by PROCON ('Progressive' is a Euphemism for Totalitarian)
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To: PROCON

I know.

I’m just disgusted with the usual suspects who dream this crap up.


47 posted on 11/07/2018 6:48:04 PM PST by TADSLOS (I hate Russian Dolls. They are so full of themselves.)
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To: TADSLOS
It's the usual fascist mindset of:

"If I'm scared of guns and don't want to own a gun, NOBODY should be allowed to own a gun."

A lot of that happening out on the left coast with the Bloomberg/Everytown money pouring in.

48 posted on 11/07/2018 6:55:07 PM PST by PROCON ('Progressive' is a Euphemism for Totalitarian)
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To: rktman
“My generation has been defined by gun violence. We have been defined by continued and repeated inaction by our elected officials,” Stephen Paolini, 22-year-old campaign manager for 1-1639, told supporters on Tuesday.

Actually, your generation has been defined by the snowflakes who think that more gov't oppression will alleviate your fears.
49 posted on 11/08/2018 9:08:16 AM PST by Sopater (Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? - Matthew 20:15a)
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