Colorado Governor Hickenlooper looks at November defeat thanks to lying about anti-gun ways

Coach is Right ^ | 7/20/14 | Doug Book

[Oldpuppymax]

Anyone wishing to explore the workings of the hoplophobic mind needs only consider the actions of the 2013, Colorado legislature. First time violators of the state’s new gun legislation face up to one year in prison. Yet a real life criminal who commits a felony while in violation of the law is subject to only 18 months. This makes an armed robber just 33% more worthy of punishment than the law abiding citizen who also happens to own a 20 round magazine. Disgraceful.

Yet Colorado politicos couldn’t have been happier with their knee-jerk attempts to intimidate Centennial State gun owners after the 2012 killings in Newtown, Connecticut. Included in the 2013 gun control legislation signed into law by Democrat Governor John Hickenlooper were requirements for universal background checks, new demands for mental health reporting and prohibitions against “large capacity” magazines—that is, of over 15 round capacity. (1)

Though it’s been a year since the law went into effect, Gov. Hickenlooper has spent the last few months running from his signature on it, not wanting to join 2 Democrats recalled from office and another forced to retire as a result of their own anti-gun ways. Last month, at an Aspen forum, Hickenlooper told sheriffs’ representatives that he had no idea that the overwhelming majority of their peers were so strongly opposed to the then, proposed legislation. It was news to Hickenlooper that these same representatives wanted to meet with him prior to his signing the legislation into law. (2)

He also had “no idea” that the overwhelming majority of the state’s...

[MacNaughton]

13 That’s how I remember it too...the only way he could run was as a Republican.

.. and somewhere along his 12-year watch as "Prince on the Hudson" he switched his party registration to (I) independent.

[RandallFlagg]

or did I drive to Kansas, or Wyoming or Nebraska,or Utah or........ and buy them?

Personally, last week.....
I went to Wyoming.