Posted on 03/29/2013 4:01:08 PM PDT by Red Steel
DENVER (CBS4)- President Barack Obama is traveling to Colorado next week to discuss the state’s new gun control laws with law enforcement and community leaders.
The president met with relatives of victims of gun violence in Washington, DC on Thursday. He’s pushing for legislation that would expand background checks nationwide in hopes of avoiding another tragedy like what happened at Sandy Hook Elementary in December of last year.
“We need everybody to remember how we felt 100 days ago and make sure what we said at that time isn’t just a bunch of platitudes,” said Obama.
The event was part of a “National Day to Demand Action.” Gun control advocates rallied behind the president’s call.
Gun violence menaces all communities in Colorado and across the country. Whether urban, suburban or rural. And we need to do something about it,” said Golden Mayor Marjorie Sloan.
Those who oppose tighter restrictions are also making their voices heard.
Larimer County Sheriff Justin Smith said he won’t enforce federal gun laws he believes are unconstitutional.
“I hope this is a turning point that the president isn’t out here on a campaign visit. Don’t come and preach to us. We don’t need that. We know our communities,” said Smith.
Obama is scheduled to come Wednesday. The White House says the president will meet with law enforcement and community leaders to discuss the gun control package signed into law by Gov. John Hickenlooper.
Colorado has gone farther than any state outside the northeast in passing new gun laws. The state now prohibits the sale of magazines that hold more than 15 bullets and requires background checks for all private gun sales. Democrats passed the laws over strong Republican objections. Democrats said they were reacting to massacres at an Aurora movie theater and a Connecticut elementary school. Obama has been unable to get similar measures through Congress.
The latest CBS News poll shows American support for stricter gun laws has fallen since the Sandy Hook shooting from 57 to 47 percent.
The only way all these insane laws can protect us is if we stacked them in front of us as a shield. Folks, we’re getting screwed by both parties.
Pump diesel in his tank.
And you have revery right to be a non-reasoned ignorant jack ass.
Indeed we are! The economy is a mess. The Mid-East is in crisis. North Korea and China are constantly saber rattling while our military atrophies yet all either party can seem to talk about is guns and gays. Oh, and how to open our borders to all who want to come in.
Screw Buckwheat. Organize 100,000 conservatives, libertarians and patriots to let that fascist scum pig know that he’s not welcome in the great state of Colorado.
The ball is in your court, patriots. Take back your state from the democrat Nazis.
I am only seeing through a 101 eye (50.5 proof)r ight now but even I can see the royal shafting that it happining as we are getting behind this shield right now!!! I am bl ind and am going off line; see ya.
You nailed it, Doug!
My county voted 75% for mittens. I can go weeks, sometimes months, without having to speak to a lib - and I have a retail business. I know Texans who moved back to Texas because this area is too conservative.
What's it like in your neighborhood? Take a look at Austin and some of your own rat conclaves and clean them up before you start throwing stones.
Colorado just like California has liberal enclaves, who seem to dominate the politics, most of the people I know who are leaving California are because they feel helpless to over come the liberalism but everyday life is pretty normal.
I have a daughter in Colorado Springs, one in Centennial/Highlands Ranch area, then a grown grandson in Larkspur all those areas seem to be normal (as in not liberal).
I do not live in Austin.
Not a problem. As if any other part of the country isn’t close to that fifty percent line on one side or the other.
Maybe we can get the population of CO back to ‘50s levels of about 1.5 million. It doesn’t break my heart that anyone wants to leave.
The Hell he is, +1. This is not New Jersey, which will become very evident in 2014.
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