Soap box, ballot box
In Colorado, not just recalls but ballot measures coming:
The battle over gun control probably will move from the state Capitol to the ballot box in November as both sides of the issue have filed proposed ballot measures.
One proposal would limit concealed handguns on Colorado campuses. Another would overturn a Democrat-imposed ban on ammunition magazines that fire more than 15 rounds. And a third would repeal all gun legislation passed in 2013 not just the mag ban that “restrict or limit” the right to bear arms.
The proposals, if they make it to the ballot, guarantee Colorado for the second year in a row would be a key battleground in the fight over gun control.
January 3rd, 2014 at 1:53 pm
“Another would overturn a Democrat-imposed ban on ammunition magazines that fire more than 15 rounds.”
All my magazines are defective, they don’t fire any rounds. They just sit there holding them.
January 3rd, 2014 at 2:11 pm
I don’t see the ballot proposals to allow constitutional carry, the ballot proposals to change Colorado’s Constitution to strengthen gun rights, the ballot proposals to make local government officials personally liable for damages when they attempt to infringe on 2nd Amendment rights.
I don’t want this election to be a return to 2012.
I want it to be a return to, or at least an effort to approach, 1789.
January 3rd, 2014 at 6:29 pm
The Dems still hold the majority in the state legislature, so I am not holding my breath. Hopefully the election will make some changes.
January 3rd, 2014 at 7:28 pm
Now for the Bloomberg media blitz…
January 4th, 2014 at 11:13 am
After the Revolution, King George asked what Washington would do next. A minister said he planned to go home. George said, “Why, if he did that, he’d be the greatest man in history.”
If Colorado cleaned the slate, that would be the most fortitude exhibited since Citadel yanked the lanyard. It’s too much to hope for. We shouldn’t even talk about it. Remember: it’s “Huzzah,” with a “Z.”
January 4th, 2014 at 9:16 pm
mikee,
How do you sell that “all or nothing” to the voters who don’t already agree with you? You have to do that or you lose.
By restricting it to the fresh controversies of 2013 the backers can sell the nonideological on easily explained points: the laws were partisan, were rammed through the Legislature, aren’t popular (based on the recalls/resignation), and, most importantly, cost the state money and made criminals of their friends and neighbors.
Those can get the otherwise uncaring fired up, “everyone should carry without a permit” has zero recent political relevance.
Con Carry is an issue for a new veto-proof Legislature or a solid pro-gun majority and pro-gun Gov.
January 5th, 2014 at 4:13 pm
I am willing to go incrementally towards liberty, just not in a backwards direction.
I happened to be on the campus of CSU the day their student newspaper reported in a front page story that the student senate there had voted – after an overwhelming student vote in favor – to request the regents to rescind their efforts to violate state law by restricting concealed carry on campus.
Students want their liberty, student governments support that desire; it is the authorities, small in number but great in hubris, who want to infringe on the rights of others.