I cite Washington state initiative 676, the 1997 attempt to lay down draconian handgun registration and storage requirements, expected to pass widely enough in Seattle/King County to carry it through the state. Instead it was trounced 2-1 even in the liberal counties and 9-1 in the conservative ones. SOURCE We got the usual "we'll be back" stuff from the antigun nazis but in fact they haven't.
That's the first time I realized I wasn't alone on the issue by a very wide margin. As usual, the locus of infection was an ultra-liberal city in a relatively conservative state that was accustomed to dictating the lives of everyone else. If they couldn't win there, then, it isn't going to get any better here, now.
That's why the gun prohibition effort is concentrated on regulatory agencies headed by unelected and unaccountable officials, protected by an Executive that doesn't really care what the voters think. When this hits the ballot box, the grabbers lose, as they did in Colorado last month. My hat's off to the folks behind that.
I remember those days back when I lived in the Puget Sound area. The billboards with Patty f**kin’ Murray’s poleaxed visage peering down from billboards relishing the end of he availability of ‘cop killer bullets’. John Carlson of KVI dishing it back to the a-hole libs. The Microsoft Gun Club (Point and Click Technology) actually out-raising and out-spending Bill Gates opposing Prop 676.
I had a bumper sticker on the back of my vehicle that close copied the format of some stupid gay rights proposition of the day - mine said “Hands Off My Gun”. Stupid libs would initially think it was for their pet cause until they got a close look. I met angry faces and raised middle digits with a smile, an imaginary finger pistol and mouthing the word “bang”. That always got ‘em - they’d look like someone shoved a corncob up their tailpipe. Yeah - those were the days.