Bill Melinda Gates Fund Gun Control Initiative, While Living With Armed Guards... OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and his wife, Melinda, have donated $1 million to a Washington state campaign seeking to expand gun control measures in Washington state, bringing their coffers up to nearly $6 million dollars. The measure would require background checks for all gun sales and transfers in Washington state,including at gun shows and for private sales. In a joint written statement issued Monday, the couple said that they believe I-594 will be an effective and balanced approach to improving gun safety in our state by closing existing loopholes for background checks. The large donation comes on the heels of fellow Microsoft co-founder Paul Allens $500,000 donation earlier this month. Also last week, venture capitalist Nick Hanauer donated an additional $1 million, bring his total donation to the campaign to nearly $1.4 million. Other prominent figures who have made large donations to the campaign include former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and his wife, Connie, who have given $580,000. Agun rightscampaign, Initiative 591, would prevent the state from adopting background-check laws that go beyond the national standard, which requires the checks for sales by licensed dealers but not for purchases from private sellers. That campaign has raised just over $1 million so far. We need another operating system to take over the industry. Bill Gates sucks. I wont give him another dime. Ill be loading Linux on my systems from here on out. This, from the guy who gave us the Blue Screen Of Death. Priceless. Well, they made a mess of education with the common core. These people need to find some real world people to learn from. Youd think with all those billions that Bill could get a decent haircut(snicker) Headlines usually speak a lot about the subject. They didnt have to write it like he was for gun control but then hid behind armed guards. Sorry, thought this would get the attention of people that were against child porn and abuse and would assume that Bill Gates would work on something that he knew about rather than poke his nose in to something that he actually uses to defend himself with but wants none of us to. No, actually I love it when I can piss off someone that wants to do harm to children and if I offended you then good for me. When did it become his internet? He has no say in what the internet does. He developed Microsoft Explorer, not the internet. LOL!! Tim, there are no peasants or serfs in the USA. We are all equal under the law. Gates and his ilk have decided that they know what is best for all of us. They can kiss my battle scarred butt. I will never submit to gun control nor will any of my family and friends. Your main point is valid, however. Has anyone just stopped and thought about how much crime on children alone has been accomplished by his internet? But he wants to take guns away from good people along with the bad while hiding behind guns. This is the only contribution he does for America evidently while following suit with obama and helping other countries more. And just what is wrong with your law abiding neighbors exercising their right to keep and bear arms? Dont any of you ever read an article before you start yacking your ignorant jaws. What he is supporting is less background checking and no background checks on private sales. So you he man woman haters need to go back and read the article, you probably support the same thing he does. Who does these people think they are?? And do they really think people are this stupid!! Here they giving money for gun control yet they have all these guards plus whosever in the house working for them probably has guns!!!! What hypocrites!!! So, surely for the big massive people that believes in having guns are they helping the NRA etc. that is behind every AMERICAN owning a gun!! If I had that much that these people have for gun control I would match theirs and then some for no gun control and give to NRA, etc. and Bloomberg we all know the man is so scared to go home by hisself that no telling how many people he has guarding him!!! If stupid in public was a law, a lot of peeps would be down the road. Including some of those commenting here! Whats their stake in Washington? Do any of them even live there? Libturd hypocrass, Ive never met a gun with a mental problem!! SCREW YOU GATES! And the rest of you Hollyweed holier than thou Thats where there is a misconception you see. They arent anti gun, they just dont want YOU to have one. Kind of like Germany in the late 30s early 40s. Police officers jobs ARE NOT to protect people, it is to arrest people. Their guns are NOT to protect the public but to protect themselves. A police officer does NOT know the law, the ONLY laws they know are traffic laws, except when they happen to get lucky and actually arrest someone whom they THINK MAYBE breaking a law, in most cases they are NOT even sure there has been a law broken, it is left up to a Judge to decide if a law was indeed broken. Then the officer can say to himself ah ha it is against the law, now I know at least one law that I can arrest people for. I wonder if Bill Gates even knows that not a single gun on earth has ever killed anybody or even wounded anybody ?? Guns are not dangerous, People are and I think Bill Gates is a people ! Gates, stay out of politics and education. Two things you dont have experience in. Just because you have the most money doesnt make you wise. Im sure that Mr Gates has armed body guards, which he approves of but because he has lots of money, he would have legal citizens be disarmed and unprotected? Youll never pass a law that will disarm criminals. They will always find weapons. He needs to take his money and use it to help insure that our country is never attacked from with in by helping eliminating the socialistic Democratic Party. When you have an open boarder, that allows criminals in from everywhere in the world and you think that when they arrive here in the USA, that they arent going to continue their criminal ways, you are as blind and ignorant as the Democrats have been, by allowing them free access to our country. No other country in the world allow criminals to simply come in and set up shop. We are in for attack from with in and no gun laws are going to stop that from happening. The only hope we have is for legal gun owners to be able to defend themselves Bill Gates has never done anything for America , except suck all the dollars he can out of it , his gifts all ways goes to foreign country,s, the country would be much better off if he went to live with ISIS I wonder how many of those who donated have armed body guards for themselves and families, just wondering if they would give them up. You are spot on!! Gaylan, a responsible individual with a gun is not like a thug packing heat! These laws are not going go stop the thug from getting a gun! They will stop the responsible individual that go through proper channels to get a gun! So they can protect themselves and their families from the thug that went to the street to obtain theirs, to rob you me or anyone else even worse kill! If you get held at gun point hold up the law on.paper!. They will lay down the weapon and walk away. If that dont work hope one of your neighbors packing heat shows up! He probably uses Bing and cant find it *sarcasm lol* Pretty sure its been proven that gangstas mostly kill each other. And again, I said MOSTLY So poor people who cant afford cops. Too bad for them, huh? Let me share with you something about your neighbors. Theyre packing heat anyway. MONEY JUST CANT CURE STUPID. THIS GUY IS RIGHT ON THE STUMP WITH OBAMA. Yes! I would hire professionals. We have Chicago thugs who retired here in the south. They are expert killers. They have body disposal skills as well. Many of the cops used to work for them back in the day. Great plan Bill and Melinda. Hire criminals to carry weapons and prevent good citizens from messing up the criminal employment plan. The elite hire the criminal element and leave the rest of us to rot in the mess they created with their money. Dont fall for these rich thugs and their hire an armed thug plan. Bill Gates needs to Google the Constitution. Self Defense is a natural human right. Its just as OK for a person of the peasant/serf to own a firearm as it is for a multi-billionaire to have hired armed guards. Bill Gates and your wife, what a pair of assholes eat up with a bad case of the DUMBASS,.. Bill said that. Genius, is not always all its cracked up to be. Just like their funding medical research on children in 3rd world countries behind the evil mask of doing good for the less fortunate Just another rich, liberal tool!~! Please leave this country. It is for free people only! So when someone else carries a gun to protect you, that is good. Thanks for wiping your ass with the Constitution by believing it is only for the %1. I hope their Armed guards fall asleep on the job and some nut case caps both of them! Hypocrite. If you are against guns, get rid of your armed guards. There are too many laws now. Enforce them and no more will be needed!! Gates needs to stick to something he knows about and get out of his Utopian existence and learn some facts. Guns arent the problem, degenerates are. The argument most definitely works. He wants to be protected. He can afford to hire an armed guard for protection because hes too big of a sissy to protect himself. But he wants to take that right from everyone else. There are far too many firearm regulations as it is. Get lost you POS. Glad to see that you believe that their lives are more important than your own. No.. gangstas only kill innocent white people. FUCK OFF YOU RETARD!!!!! Ex cops re some of the most mentally unstable people on the planet! Allowing them to even OWN a firearm is a mistake! Look at how many cops kill UNARMED CITIZENS every year? In Seattle there is usually at least one murder of an unarmed citizen by a cop every year and you believe those psychotic bastards should be allowed to have guns??? OH HELL NO! waste of their money gun control is not negotiable it is a right of every law abiding citizen. The headline to this piece is trying to make an argument that doesnt work. It is not inconsistent to want gun control on a broad scale but hire armed guards for protection. Professionals who are hired for protection are often former police officers, and protecting people is their profession. Thats not at all the same as all my neighbors packing heat. And crazy, well off people frm yall own demograohic culture keep fucking up people. Mass shootings killing kids. Gangstas dont do tht shit. And ones that do get what they deserve eventually. But raking gunz away from good people thay Magic have a record, wow. How are they suppose to protect their families Both of the evil scum bags would do the world more good in BODY BAGS!!!!! Hypocrites, thats what they ALL are. 