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kioa

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3. The Gun Control Movement made progress for the GOP...
Mon Jan 5, 2015, 03:56 PM
Jan 2015

By getting the Democratic Party trounced in the last election.
Lost the Senate.
Lost seats in the House.
Put more state legislatures in GOP control than at any time since the Great Depression.

I-594, despite its supporters having a 7-to-1 spending advantage (thanks to the donations of Billionaire 1%ers like Bloomberg & Bill Gates) passed by only 60%-40% in a coastal state, showing the "90% support Background Checks" claim to be utterly unrepresentative of the reality.
I-594 is a toothless 18 page monstrosity of a law that is so unenforceable it was openly broken on the statehouse steps.

But nevermind all that; do tell, if gun control did so well, then how many gun control laws do you foresee so much as come up for a vote in the next 2 years?

Gun Control is an political dinosaur that has been put back to where it belongs: Irrelevancy.

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