, Columnist
Make Women's Voices Heard on Gun Control
A proposal to require background checks on virtually all gun sales in Washington will need the votes of women, who often skip midterm elections, to pass.
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You would think that a proposal to require background checks on virtually all gun sales would be a no-brainer in the blue state of Washington.
A recent poll, taken before the killings last month in Santa Barbara, California, showed that 72 percent of the state's voters support a background-check measure on November's ballot -- 77 percent of women and 68 percent of men.