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Comment by Darrell Rowlands on November 5, 2014 at 12:08pm

I TOLD YOU!!!

Posted: 12:44 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2014

http://www.kirotv.com/news/news/washington-approves-expanded-gun-ba...

Washington approves expanded gun background checks

SEATTLE — Voters have passed a measure to expand background checks on gun sales and transfers in Washington state.

Initiative 594 was one of two rival gun measures on Tuesday's ballot. It requires background checks on all sales and transfers, including private transactions and many loans and gifts. It had especially strong support in King County.

The rival measure, Initiative 591, would prevent the state from expanding checks beyond the national standard. It was trailing statewide.

Like federal law, Washington law currently requires checks for sales or transfers by licensed dealers but not for purchases from private sellers, like those who sell at gun shows or to friends.

"Tonight's victory of Washington's 594 proves that citizens, including gun owners, do want common-sense gun safety laws," Tacoma Mayor Marilyn Strickland said in a written statement.

Recent polling showed a significant advantage for the expansion measure — which also had an advantage in fundraising. If both managed to pass, officials said, the courts or the Legislature would likely have to sort it out.

Lisa Fain, 41, of Mercer Island, said she was interested in the gun background check issue.

"What happened in Marysville was very unfortunate. If there's a silver lining, it's perhaps that people realize we need stronger gun laws," said Fain, referring to the deadly shooting last month at Marysville-Pilchuck High School.

Karen Smith, 40, of Bellevue, voted against the expansion and for the anti-expansion measure and called the decision very complicated.

"Guns are big in our family. We want to make sure everybody has the right to have a gun safely," Smith said.

No other state has a gun-related measure on the ballot this year, and millions of dollars have been pouring into the state, mostly in support of expanding background checks.

Supporters of expansion have raised more than $10.3 million, with large donations from several prominent proponents like Bill and Melinda Gates and Paul Allen, a Microsoft co-founder. Everytown for Gun Safety, a group funded by former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, donated more than $1 million to the campaign, and has spent nearly $1 million more through its own political action committee. Bloomberg has separately donated an additional $285,000.

Comment by Darrell Rowlands on October 25, 2014 at 9:44am

 

MSNBC’s Joy Reid used the network’s coverage of a school shooting in Washington State to push for more gun control on Friday.

Less than an hour after the network began live coverage of the shooting, she remarked, “You do have the prevalence, obviously, of guns in this country. It’s interesting that Washington State actually has two gun measures that were on the ballot in the upcoming election.” And, “We can’t really have a conversation about school shootings without talking about the country’s gun laws” during an interview with law enforcement analyst Jim Cavanaugh.

Cavanaugh added, “It’s going to come up. It always does when we have mass shootings. And there’s some good ideas. Background checks, I think, 99 percent of the country supports. And I think those are good things.” He also talked about the importance of safely storing firearms so that teenagers could not get access to them.

Comment by Darrell Rowlands on October 25, 2014 at 9:42am

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Comment by Darrell Rowlands on October 25, 2014 at 9:39am

http://www.infowars.com/msnbc-uses-school-shooting-coverage-to-push...

Comment by space wabbit on October 25, 2014 at 4:58am

That was my FIRST QUESTION - what SSRI drugs was this kid on?

Comment by margaret on October 24, 2014 at 11:16pm

Agreed!  As always, the question should be: Were SSRI's involved?  No info as of yet.