Colorado: Gunners Win As Lawmakers Seeking to Control Gun Access Recalled
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Colorado gun lovers have spoken, ousting two legislators who determined that background investigations should be conducted before issuing weapons permits for those seeking to kill their friends and neighbors, or wanting to overthrow the evil government.
Voters fired two clear warning shots in the gun control debate, voting to kick two Democratic state lawmakers who supported stricter firearm laws out of office. Senate president John Morse and Senator Angela Giron will both be replaced with Republicans, following a recall election yesterday, reports the Denver Post. The NRA was a significant force behind the recall, donating more than $300,000 to the effort after both Morse and Giron supported wider background checks and round limits on ammo, reports the Washington Post. “The loss of this senate seat is purely symbolic,” said Morse after conceding defeat.
Morse and Giron also received about $300,000 from New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, but it was a pittance compared to the total sum raised by gun rights advocates. “Tonight is a victory for the people of the state of Colorado, who have been subject to the overreach of a Democrat agenda on guns, taxes, and accountability to the people,” says one of the activists behind the recalls. The recalls will perhaps be heard most loudly by Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper, who supported and signed tighter gun control laws and is now facing falling approval ratings, notes the Post.
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I would so love to own a gun.
I would be arrested within a day of course for shooting idiots (politicians/illegal immigrants/bad neighbours/Islamists/Lovers of The European Union) but BOY! WHAT A DAY EH? 😉
Yes, it is! and Nugent isn’t the craziest, unfortunately, but voters are voters and plenty of non-NRA members place great store in the right to own firearms of some sort. I think it’s wrong to blame too much of the American enthusiasm for guns and shooting sports on NRA propaganda. It’s a regional thing as well. Alaskans, and other rural interests don’t like to be told they don’t need guns when they use them to put food on the table. Many don’t see a semi-auto AR15 as a “weapon of war” but as a light weight and reliable Caribou hunting tool – which it is.
BUT I’m really posting to point out that amongst our Liberal Shibboleths repeated endlessly is the one insisting that you can – anybody can – buy automatic weapons. It’s very difficult and expensive to legally own a “destructive weapon” as I’m sure you know and has been since the 1930’s. The penalties for failure to comply are heavy. BUT Semi-automatic is NOT automatic. Not by a long shot, pun intended. Hyperbole may be fun and satisfying, but it doesn’t serve rational argument well.
No, I don’t think 100 round drum magazines should really be on the market either, nor explosive bullets, depleted Uranium ammunition, etc which are of course already banned. I also don’t thing we should have bans that don’t actually ban anything like the late AWB.
Yes, the NRA is run by hysterical extremists but all those who like being able to shoot targets or ducks are not extremists. Neither are we served well by being confused or misguided about what’s legal and what’s not; about what’s military and what’s not and we need to recognize that Colorado is not Connecticut and Barrow, Alaska has more polar bears than Brooklyn.
Truth is, at least in my opinion, that any gun is dangerous and any weapon at all in the wrong hands is the problem that needs to be worked on. If some psycho is going to shoot up a school, I don’t think the biggest problem is what kind of gun he uses, but that’s just me, your opinion might vary.
“…the people of the state of Colorado, who have been subject to the overreach of a Democrat agenda on guns, taxes, and accountability to the people,…” Okay, I can see there being disagreement and discussion about guns and taxes, but “accountability to the people”? Isn’t that what government is all about? What am I missing?
We heard about the recall last night on the radio; my husband and his whole family are from Colorado. As Kevin pointed out, is it to recall supposed to be based on something more than not agreeing with a particular vote of a particular person? Furthermore, that one county is not the only one that voted for increased restriction, is it? And I still have a fundamental problem with the NRA’s interpretation of the “Second Amendment”. In the days of the creation of the Second Amendment, didn’t “arms” refer to a musket? I don’t see how this Second Amendment can have anything to do with automatic rifles were large ammunition clips. The Republicans claim to be “originalists” when it comes to the Constitution.•• What’s “original” about concealed carry of automatic rifles with clips of 50 and more bullets?
Marsha unfortunately the NRA is populated by a lot of wackos and weirdos, like Ted Nugent. They wouldn’t understand the nuances of the constitution even if someone took the time to explain it to them. Arguing with a gunner is like arguing with a drunk. It’s an exercise in futility.
The power of the gun lobby leaves me breathless at times. What kind of a country lets anyone and everyone own and carry concealed a freaking gun? What happened to common sense?
Common sense has never been common or even popular.
Very true James….
But it’s in defense of the 2nd Amendment! Everyone knows that nothing in the Constitution has ever been wrong, or is no longer relevant. Just like the bible!
Damn pinko commies!
PS. When the phrase “everyone knows” appears, it’s a sign that all rational statements are at an end.
America just keeps shooting itself in the foot.