If something like this was purposed state wide, it probably would not pass.
It would probably not pass the LEGISLATURE. But the anti's have discovered an end run around that. Ballot initiatives.
We defeated the stupidly written background check law, TWICE, (possibly 3 times) over several years IN THE LEGISLATURE.
When they made it a ballot initiative, only the 4 or 5 counties in the Seattle metro area passed it BUT that was enough to make it the law for the entire state. Simple numbers. A deliberately misleading and lying advertising campaign, (mostly funded by out of state interests) convinced enough people in the Seattle area that the law was a good thing, and needed, so it passed there, and ONLY there.
But the rest of the state rejected it.
Machts Nichts, they got the numbers, and our rights didn't matter.
This is called democracy. 3 wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner is democracy. Democracy in the abstract is held to the high ideal, what is right, and just, and proper. The assumption is that the majority of people will vote to do the "right thing. But in practice, in the real world, it has a huge historical track record of not working out that way.
The majority can be mislead and manipulated, history if full of that.
The Nazis were ELECTED into power.
The majority of the US, at one time held that certain persons were legally PROPERTY (slavery)
The majority of the US at one time held that women did not have a right to vote...
The majority, at one time, held that homosexuality was a mental illness...
These are just a few,
History shows us again and again how a majority can make, and support a really bad decision.
If that isn't clear enough, just look at some of the people we have elected, by majority vote.....And what they have done!
just because the bulk of the people, by numbers, think something is right, doesn't mean it is. Ask any minority group about it....