Gun Control & RKBA

I know that from folks who worked on the ground, who were at the last minute putting out a lot of campaign flyers, posters, etc. that were funded at the last minute by these folks that helped Chuck Riley and Sarah Gelser get seats for the Democrats to win a majority in the state senate, which before was pretty much even even with a majority when one Democrat was constantly voting with Republicans.

So yes, that and some races in the legislature helping the Democrats there helped perhaps push gun legislation in the state offices here, and also helped push for subsequent petitions for recalls of Riley and some other Democrats here by the gun lobbyists too. There's a big battle in this state for gun rights that I see happening around us. Don't forget that we had a mall shooting in Clackamas earlier in the week a few days before the Sandy Hook shooting that seems to get forgotten a lot when those two events happened right next to each other.

It's also important to note that Bloomberg ALSO tried heavily along with an oil billionaire tried to heavily finance getting open primaries passed through referendum in the same election too in 2014, which failed miserably here, after I think grass roots in all parties here started to realize that it was an attempt by billionaires to buy keeping and growing their influence over elections here.

http://pamplinmedia.com/pt/9-news/237435-103417-two-billionaires-give-to-oregon-top-two-primary-effort

So campaign spending is a double edged sword. We can thank Bloomberg for a state majority of Democrats here growing, but we can also see by Bloomberg's own behavior on the Top Two primary referendum, that we really can't afford to be dependent on spending of billionaires who we get elected to our governments. We need to fix this system to take money OUT of politics, even if some billionaires will spend money the right way on certain causes, because it is just as likely and arguably more likely that more billionaires will spend money on the wrong causes and people in office too.