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Wonder what the people of Colorado think?
How do the people feel about this?
Is this going to be open to popular vote?
ALL the Amendments we consider a Right are being attacked!
What happens when ONLY the government has guns?
Think about it... ~ Drake
By IVAN MORENO and KRISTEN WYATT 03/05/13 09:30 AM ET
EST 
DENVER — A series of sweeping gun-control measures in
Colorado is on track to hit the governor’s desk by the end of the month,
with Democratic committees in the Legislature advancing all the bills despite
a Capitol packed with hundreds of opponents and surrounded by cars circling
the Capitol blaring their horns.
Gun limits including expanded background checks and
ammunition magazine limits were helped Monday by testimony from the husband
of former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and victims of mass shootings in
Connecticut and suburban Denver.
Colorado has become a focus point in the national debate
over what new laws, if any, are needed to prevent gun violence after recent
mass shootings, including an attack at an Aurora movie theater last summer
– a massacre that brought to mind the Columbine High School shooting of
1999 for many in the state and across the nation.
The seven gun-control measures cleared their committees on
3-2 party-line votes and are planned for debate by the full Senate by
Friday. Four of the seven have already cleared the House, making it
possible some of them will land on the desk of Democratic Gov. John
Hickenlooper within weeks.
“I think they’ll all pass. I really do,” said Democratic
Senate President John Morse. “And I think they all should pass. I think any
of them failing doesn’t make Colorado as safe as we could make Colorado.”
A biplane flying above the Capitol Monday warned the
governor, “HICK: DO NOT TAKE OUR GUNS!” Hickenlooper backs expanded
background checks and has said he’s considering a bill to limit ammunition
magazines to 15 rounds. He hasn’t indicated where he stands on other
measures, including whether he supports a proposal that would hold sellers
and owners of assault weapons liable for shootings by such firearms.
Gun rights supporters walked the Capitol halls wearing
stickers that read, “I Vote Pro-Gun.” Several dozen people outside the
Capitol waved American flags as light snow fell.
Inside, retired astronaut and Navy captain Mark Kelly told
lawmakers that he and his wife, Giffords, support the Second Amendment, but
he said the right to bear arms shouldn’t extend to criminals and the
mentally ill.
Kelly compared the different background check requirements
for private and retail sales with having two different lines at the
airport, one with security and one without.
“Which one do you think the terrorist is going to choose?”
he asked.
Giffords, a former Democratic congresswoman from Tucson,
Ariz., was severely wounded in a mass shooting in January 2011 while
meeting with constituents.
Gun control opponents say the proposals will not reduce
violence. They say lawmakers should focus on strengthening access to mental
health services for people who could be dangerous to communities.
The bill hearings were at times testy, and included some
outbursts from the audience. After one bill passed, someone leaving the
committee yelled “That sucks!” to lawmakers.
“I’ve never seen such unprofessional behavior,” Democratic
Sen. Irene Aguilar told the audience at one point.
The commotion at the Capitol underscored the attention the
debate has generated nationally from gun rights groups, such as the
National Rifle Association, to victims’ families and White House officials.
One of the nation’s largest producers of ammunition
magazines, Colorado-based Magpul, has threatened to leave the state if
lawmakers restrict the size of its products. Its founder said smaller
magazines can be easily connected to each other and the company fears it
would be legally liable if people were to do that.
Victims who have lost relatives to gun violence say it’s
time for legislators to take action.
Tom Sullivan, whose son Alex was among the 12 killed in the
Aurora theater shooting, was among the people urging lawmakers to pass
magazine restrictions.
“He was enjoying the movie one second, and then the next
second he was dead,” Tom Sullivan said.
Jane Dougherty, whose sister, Mary Sherlach, was a
psychologist killed in the shooting rampage at Sandy Hook Elementary School
in Newtown, Conn., has been lobbying Colorado lawmakers to pass new gun
laws. She said she doesn’t understand gun owners who worry the bills are
putting a burden on their rights.
She said the Connecticut shooter used “the same type of
weapon that we use in war” to “slaughter these babies” and asked lawmakers
for stricter gun laws.
“We cannot wait for yet another massacre to transpire,”
Dougherty said.
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Associated Press writer Alexandra Tilsley contributed to
this report.
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4 comments:
We need guns now, but we won't when NESARA is implemented.
Americans it is about time to vote those men/women who continues to violate their oath of office from his/her office. Put the real representative to serve you and your contry.
Great idea in theory but we do not have that choice. It does not matter who you vote into office because the only choices given forward the same agenda. Look what was done to Ron Paul weather or not you wanted to vote for him. How can anyone get elected without corporate sponsors and millions? Romney or Obama; different versions of more of the same. Despite the vote them out of office movement they keep getting voted back in.
Vote nothing! It's time to clean house of these traitors and charge them with treason and conspiracy to commit treason period!!
Are we that brain dead?
Chicago that has the strictest unconstitutional guns laws in the country and their crime rate is out of control.
The time has come to invest your money in a rope making company and start taking care of business.
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