Bill and Melinda Gates recently donated One Million dollars to Washington State Initiative
Measure No. 594, which if passed, will require wider reaching background checks for firearm
sales and transfers.
So, what’s the deal?
Are Bill and Melinda Gates trying to take your guns?
Well, I can’t speak for Bill and Melinda Gates.
But as for this initiative, no, it is not trying to take your guns.
In fact, the initiative doesn’t affect current gun owners or licensed gun dealers at all.
It just extends laws that are already in place.
As it stands now, Licensed dealers have to do a background check before they can sell
or transfer a gun to a customer.
This is designed to keep guns out of the hands of criminals, domestic abusers, and others
the State of Washington has deemed unfit for gun ownership.
But there is no law in place preventing non-licensed dealers on the streets, on the internet, or
at gun shows from selling or transferring weapons without doing a background check.
A loophole that enables criminals and the like to buy firearms without a background
check.
This initiative is trying to close this loophole...
Despite the good intentions of the Initiative Measure No. 594, some of you are still thinking…But
they’re trying to take my guns!
Which is a valid concern.
But no.
594 just wants background checks, something 87% of Americans support.
And it doesn’t even call for background checks in all cases.
The initiative has some reasonable exceptions that let you transfer or sell guns without
doing a background check.
Gifts between immediate family members are fine.
Antiques and relics are fine too.
You can loan a gun to a friend for hunting or sporting activities and you can even temporarily
transfer a gun to someone for self-defense purposes.
Even now, some of you are still thinking “but they’re trying to take my guns.”
And, look, I get it.
I know why you’re saying that.
We’ve become so partisan in America that trusting elected officials, regulators, lobbyists
and in this case billionaires, like Bill Gates, has become difficult.
Plus, there are people in this world who would like to take your guns.
They want a gun free america.
How can you be sure that Initiative Measure No. 594 wasn’t written by some of those
people?
Well, you can’t.
But you don’t have to be.
You can see exactly what Initiative Measure No. 594 says and exactly what it is calling
for.
And voting against something you support because you don’t trust the side that presented
it, is the definition of partisanship.
If you want the system to start working again, you yourself have to be less partisan.
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