Guns Save Lives – by Dan Cannon
Bill Gates and his wife Melinda have donated a total of $1 million to a campaign attempting to get Initiative 594 passed in Washington State.
Initiative 594 is a “universal background check” initiative that would require background checks on private gun sales. Currently in Washington State, as in most states in the country, no background check is required when a gun transaction occurs between two individuals.
The donation was made to The Washington Alliance for Gun Responsibility, a group that is seeking to campaign heavily in order to see the initiative pass.
So far, the group has raised just over $6 million, with the majority of donations being made by multi-millionaires and billionaires including Bill and Melinda Gates, Microsoft’s former CEO Steve Balmer (who just bought the Los Angeles Clippers for $2 billion), entrepreneur Nick Hanauer, Seattle multi-millionaire Ann P. Wyckoff, Microsoft’s former president Jon Shirley and Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. Michael Bloomberg also indirectly donated $30,000 through his Mayors Against Illegal Guns organization. Those individuals account for $3.61 million in donations to the campaign according to the Washington Public Disclosure Commission. Only $54,392.19 of the group’s donations are considered “small contributions”.
On the other hand, the opposition to the initiative, Protect Our Gun Rights, has raised a little over a million dollars, mostly off small, personal donations of less than $1,000.
However, Protect Our Gun Rights is not directly opposing I594. Instead, they are throwing their support behind a different initiative, I591.
I591 would prevent any new state gun control law from being passed that is not already part of federal law. This means that if I591 passes, it would make I594 useless.
Republican and conservative independents tend to have much higher turnouts during midterm elections, so it will certainly be interesting to see how this plays out. We’ll be keeping a close on Washington in the coming months.
How about Bill does this. Stops production on every MS game for the PC , XBox, etc that has a gun in it.
Put up, or shut up.
The problem with these arrogant super-rich control freaks is that they have more money than sense.
Gates is yet another brain-washed eugenicist who thinks that just because he knows how to fleece the public he can kill those same geese that have laid his golden eggs.
Power corrupts, and we the people have a lot of rich and powerful who need their clocks cleaned.
“I591 would prevent any new state gun control law from being passed that is not already part of federal law. This means that if I591 passes, it would make I594 useless.
Republican and conservative independents tend to have much higher turnouts during midterm elections, so it will certainly be interesting to see how this plays out. We’ll be keeping a close on Washington in the coming months.”
The thing is…
WHO controls the ballot boxes (or whatever it is they’re using these days) ?
Well it shows his utter contempt for the Constitution,Bill of Rights and the amendments. You know people like him thinks that they are better than everyone else and have the right to tell others what to do! The ballot box means nothing,the one counting the ballots and reporting the final tally are the ones that do.If the citizens even had a chance to change things at the ballot box there would be no ballot box.
start a global movement: “Gun Owners 4 LINUX”
LOL
Wow! One million.
I say, hang the traitor and sell his head on Ebay for TWO million!
Hey, people will buy anything on Ebay these days. 😉
Only a million, Bill?
If I had your money, and your odds of getting my neck stretched, I think I’d dig a little deeper. We probably spend that much on guns everyday.
That tax dodging son of a bitch, who stole the technology for Windows to begin with, doesn’t want people waking up one day, loading their guns, and going hunting for him and the rest of these slithering, greedy, creatures who pass themselves off as humans with Satan’s help. Their control over the populace is dwindling every day as they continue to try to keep the big lie. Anyone who breathes a word about gun control is a traitor and should be treated as such. Bill Gates, he deserves special treatment so I’ll grant him a political post. He can be the test subject for the most painful and gruesome way to die. If digger were still here I’m sure he would have some interesting suggestions! 🙂
Cut the richest 1%’s taxes more, so they can do more things like this FOR FREE!!!!!!!!