I think that was a petition to "Stop any legislation that will ban "assault weapons," semi-automatic rifles or handguns and high capacity magazines."odcaloney wrote:I saw the petition, it had 10,685 signatures.
In the spirit of the administration spinning the facts like a Waring blender, there were actually 32 separate whitehouse.gov "petitions" whose votes were combined and added to arrive at the 400,000 figure. You can find all 32--many of which had nothing at all to do with gun control and, in fact, several that were absolutely pro-gun--listed at the bottom of this article:
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/respon ... n-violence.
But let's be honest, the whole create-your-own-petition thing at whitehouse.gov is totally useless. Scores of new "petitions" are created daily, by anyone and everyone. They're even more useless than poorly constructed and biased surveys. I'd wager they are largely ignored even by staff underlings until an issue like this comes up where they attempt to twist 400,000 disparate "signatures" over 32 "petitions" into a false statement of grass-roots groundswell in support of an agenda already planned.