Well, gun control advocates were able to write up their own initiative (594) and put it on the ballot in Washington State. With what may turn out to be a 50-to-1 spending advantage ($9.5 million
to what appears to be a couple hundred thousand ($1.7 million was spent
on another gun initiative)), the initiative passed with just less than 60 percent
of the vote. What this vote implies is that even under ideal
circumstances with a massive campaign spending advantage and picking a
liberal state where they thought that the would do well, about 60
percent of the voters supported the initiative. Why do gun control
advocates feel it necessary to so greatly exaggerate support for their
initiatives? It will be interesting to see if the 90 percent claim keeps
being made.
http://crimepreventionresearchcenter.org/2014/11/so-much-for-the-claim-that-nine-out-of-10-americans
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