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Old 02-13-2018, 9:54 AM
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Originally Posted by Jimi Jah View Post
Well that sure worked out great with prop 63?

Face it, we are outvoted here 3/1.
Actually that is not as true as you would think.

There are 19.4 million registered voters:
-8.7 million Democrats (45%)
-5 million Republicans (26%)
-5.7 million no preference/other (29%).

Prop 63 passed with:
-8.6 million Yes (63%)
-5.1 million No (37%)


This means there were roughly 6 million mostly-not-registered-as-Democrat voters who did not vote on Prop 63 at all. We only needed 2/3 of them to vote No, and we'd have defeated it.

Additionally, out of those 8.6 million Yes votes, many were gun owners who simply voted "Yes" because they figured "I can pass a background check just fine, so why should I care?" because nobody bothered to tell them (and they didn't bother to read) what the actual ramifications of Prop 63 were.

Where were all the "Vote no on 63" ads? Outside of Calguns and the NRA email mailing lists, there wasn't any public outreach - and that was the primary culprit.

It's not that we're massively outnumbered, it's that we're massively lazy about getting out and voting, and educating people about what these propositions/candidates are really doing to their rights.
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