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Gun Control Reform Activism

flamin lib

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2. Take heart. While the gun lobby seems to have a strangle hold on DC

Reply to mainstreetonce (Reply #1)

Thu Nov 17, 2016, 05:19 PM

Nov 2016

they don't do so well in local referendums. When proposals are put before the voters directly they tend to get more traction. In fact, they almost always win and attempts to overturn them have met with pretty dismal results.

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Okay, this wasn't the year to break the NRA's back. At least not at the federal level. [View all] flamin lib Nov 2016 OP

Thanks mainstreetonce Nov 2016 #1

Take heart. While the gun lobby seems to have a strangle hold on DC flamin lib Nov 2016 #2