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Gov. Hickenlooper apologizes for how gun control was handled
KOAA.com ^ | 14 Jun 14 | Monica Gouty

Posted on 06/15/2014 5:48:11 AM PDT by real saxophonist

Gov. Hickenlooper apologizes for how gun control was handled

ASPEN, Colo. (AP) - Gov. John Hickenlooper told a group of Colorado sheriffs he is sorry for the way last year's gun-control measures were handled, and he acknowledged that the lawmen were shut out of the process.

Answering questions at the County Sheriffs of Colorado conference in Aspen on Friday, the governor said "I would say in the gun stuff, we certainly could have done a better job."

The Aspen Daily News reports Weld County Sheriff John Cooke asked Hickenlooper why he didn't meet with sheriffs before he signed the legislation. The governor said he did not know the lawmen were trying to talk to him until it was too late.

The legislation included new expanded background checks and a 15-round ammunition magazine limit.


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Colorado
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To: Balding_Eagle

Yeh he’s sorry now that Tancredo is running to kick him out.


21 posted on 06/15/2014 6:37:15 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose o f a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Jack Hydrazine

A five way split in the primary so both ways Bob can win one for the establishment. My preference is Gessler.


22 posted on 06/15/2014 6:40:21 AM PDT by SpeakerToAnimals (I hope to earn a name in battle)
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To: Vigilanteman

Fake ! Vote his @$$ out !


23 posted on 06/15/2014 6:45:51 AM PDT by CORedneck
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To: Tupelo

There are plenty of FReepers who come running to denounce him as racist, one trick pony, anti immigrant, etc.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3167782/posts


24 posted on 06/15/2014 6:47:13 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin.)
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To: winner3000

Notice that he did not apologize for IMPLEMENTING gun control, rather he apologized for how the message was communicated.

You are correct. He doesn’t think he did anything wrong.


25 posted on 06/15/2014 6:51:31 AM PDT by taxcontrol
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To: real saxophonist

Governor Hickenlooper took his lead from Governor Cuomo. The law was passed in the dead of night by skipping the lawfully required debate process and cutting any opposition out.


26 posted on 06/15/2014 6:54:46 AM PDT by BuffaloJack (Unarmed people cannot defend themselves. America is no longer a Free Country.)
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To: taxcontrol

Sounds to me like he’s sorry he didn’t invite lawmen in for some wheeling and dealing.


27 posted on 06/15/2014 6:55:04 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin.)
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To: real saxophonist; All
--maybe I missed it, but so far have not seen a word of this in the Denver Post--

--this morning's edition has the usual anti-gun editorial as the lead--- --http://www.denverpost.com/editorials/ci_25959689/still-waiting-congress-guns

28 posted on 06/15/2014 7:03:21 AM PDT by rellimpank (--don't believe anything the media or government says about firearms or explosives--)
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To: real saxophonist

It is not too late Chicienpooper. You can take many measures now. Lying to get reelected is the way you chose though.


29 posted on 06/15/2014 7:03:28 AM PDT by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: real saxophonist

Chickenpooper is only sorry his tyranny is backfiring on him. He isn’t sorry he did it.


30 posted on 06/15/2014 7:03:28 AM PDT by Gritty (The war is over. We won. - Michael Yon, Top Iraq War Correspondent, 07/21/2008)
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To: RandallFlagg; MileHi; dhs12345; dynachrome; Balata; bboop; BulletBobCo; Carley; ColoCowgirl; ...

Colorado Ping ( Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from the list.)


31 posted on 06/15/2014 7:13:40 AM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: Gritty

As is the case with all liberal socialists, the crime is not in the doing, but in the getting caught.


32 posted on 06/15/2014 7:17:27 AM PDT by ChildOfThe60s ((If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there)
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To: real saxophonist

A true obamaite...”I didn’t know”!


33 posted on 06/15/2014 7:18:08 AM PDT by PoloSec ( Believe the Gospel: how that Christ died for our sins, was buried and rose again)
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To: real saxophonist

The “gun stuff”.

Idiot.


34 posted on 06/15/2014 7:19:54 AM PDT by headstamp 2 (What would Scooby do?)
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To: katykelly

Welcome back! Who I would want to live in a state run by Leftists and roaming dopers?


35 posted on 06/15/2014 7:37:24 AM PDT by txrefugee
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To: real saxophonist

He is only sorry he couldn’t do more.


36 posted on 06/15/2014 7:40:37 AM PDT by depressed in 06 (America conceived in liberty, dies in slavery.)
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To: real saxophonist

Should we accept his apology? We should tell him FU...


37 posted on 06/15/2014 7:49:30 AM PDT by ExCTCitizen (I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
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To: Georgia Girl 2; hal ogen

There’s one thing about being in politics for awhile, as Tancredo has been. He knows how to fight like a man, and will kick Hickenloopers’ ass from one side of the state to the other if he is the R nominee.


38 posted on 06/15/2014 8:05:41 AM PDT by Balding_Eagle (Want to keep your doctor? Remove your Democrat Senator.)
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To: real saxophonist
Gov. Hickenlooper apologizes for how gun control was handled

I'll believe it when he writes it in his memoirs from prison.

39 posted on 06/15/2014 8:22:06 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: Tupelo
, if Tancredo wins the nomination, the GOPe will probably divert their donations and support to the Hickenlooper campaign.

GOPe can't be everywhere at once :-)

40 posted on 06/15/2014 8:24:23 AM PDT by Kenny
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