Hand guns on display. (photo: AP)
Voters
Strengthen Gun Control Measures in 3 States
By Josh Sanburn, Time
09 November 16
While Maine rejected universal background checks despite millions
of dollars spent by gun control advocates
Nevada,
California and Washington all voted in favor of enhanced gun control on Tuesday, while Maine narrowly
rejected universal background checks for private gun sales despite millions of
dollars spent there by national gun control advocates.
Maine’s
rejection of the gun control ballot measure,
and the narrow support for a similar measure in Nevada, showed the limits of well-funded
national organizations pushing for expanded background checks around the
country. Voters in Maine defeated a measure that would’ve expanded background
checks to private gun sales and transfers or loans to friends. Polls showed support for the
referendum before the vote; the measure had strong backing from Everytown for
Gun Safety, a gun control group funded by former New York City Mayor Michael
Bloomberg that spent more than $5 million in the state.
David
Trahan, director of the Sportsman’s Alliance of Maine, which opposed the
measure, told Maine Public Radio that
he believed many voters took issue with federal background checks on gun
transfers, saying: “I think that had this been drafted differently you wouldn’t
have seen that much opposition.”
In
Nevada, voters barely approved a similar measure to expand background checks to
private gun sales and transfers, with just 50.45% voting in favor. That state
also saw heavy spending from Everytown for Gun Safety, which spent $11 million
in support of the referendum, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
California approved a measure that
outlaws possession of large-capacity ammunition magazines, requires background
checks for ammunition sales and strengthens a program that allows the state to
remove firearms from people the state deems to be dangerous. Washington state
also approved a measure that allows judges to issue orders enabling authorities
to temporarily seize guns from people who are deemed a threat to themselves or
others.
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Michael
Moore: Morning-After To-Do List
November 9, 2016
41
1. Take
over the Democratic Party and return it to the people. They have failed us
miserably.
2. Fire all
pundits, predictors, pollsters and anyone else in the media who had a narrative
they wouldn't let go of and refused to listen to or acknowledge what was really
going on. Those same bloviators will now tell us we must "heal the divide"
and "come together." They will pull more hooey like that out of their
*** in the days to come. Turn them off.
3. Any
Democratic member of Congress who didn't wake up this morning ready to fight,
resist and obstruct in the way Republicans did against President Obama every
day for eight full years must step out of the way and let those of us who know
the score lead the way in stopping the meanness and the madness that's about to
begin.
4. Everyone
must stop saying they are "stunned" and "shocked." What you
mean to say is that you were in a bubble and weren't paying attention to your
fellow Americans and their despair. YEARS of being neglected by both parties,
the anger and the need for revenge against the system only grew. Along came a
TV star they liked whose plan was to destroy both parties and tell them all
"You're fired!"
Trump's
victory is no surprise. He was never a joke. Treating him as one only
strengthened him. He is both a creature and a creation of the media and the
media will never own that.
5. You must
say this sentence to everyone you meet today: "HILLARY CLINTON WON THE
POPULAR VOTE!" The MAJORITY of our fellow Americans preferred Hillary
Clinton over Donald Trump. Period. Fact. If you woke up this morning thinking
you live in an effed-up country, you don't. The majority of your fellow
Americans wanted Hillary, not Trump. The only reason he's president is because
of an arcane, insane, 18th-century idea called the Electoral College. Until we
change that, we'll continue to have presidents we didn't elect and didn't want.
You live in
a country where a majority of citizens have said they believe there's climate
change, they believe women should be paid the same as men, they want a
debt-free college education, they don't want us invading countries, they want a
raise in the minimum wage and they want a single-payer true universal health
care system. None of that has changed. We live in a country where the majority
agree with the "liberal" position. We just lack the liberal
leadership to make that happen (see: #1 above).
Let's try
to get this all done by noon today.
Michael
Moore is an Academy Award-winning filmmaker and bestselling author.
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