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Fight on Guns Is Being Taken to State Ballots
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"The gun control movement, blocked in Congress and facing mounting losses in federal elections, is tweaking its name, refining its goals and using the same-sex marriage movement as a model to take the fight to voters on the state level."
"After a victory in November on a Washington State ballot measure that will require broader background checks on gun buyers, groups that promote gun regulations have turned away from Washington and the political races that have been largely futile. Instead, they are turning their attention — and their growing wallets — to other states that allow ballot measures." ... |
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Agitprop.
Attacks are happening in the states, but the battle is in the SCOTUS.
Nothing passed in any state by any means can survive if the SCOTUS strikes it down.
Which it will. Most of them, anyway. |
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