Hick's "Gun Control" platform

[BPTactical]

Anybody else catch Hickies announcement on "Gun Control" for his 2020 run?

https://www.denverpost.com/2019/05/2...-presidential/


A few excerpts:

• Universal background checks: Hickenlooper is calling for national background checks for all gun sales, pointing out that one in five gun purchases do not undergo checks because of existing loopholes. He wants to close loopholes and extend the current three-day waiting period to 10 days in order to close what's known as the "Charleston loophole," which enabled Dylann Roof to purchase guns he used to kill nine parishioners in a black church in 2015.
• National gun licenses: Gun owners would be required to obtain a national gun license that would also require a background check. The license would need to be renewed online every five years.
• Raise minimum age to own a gun to 21: Currently, individuals in the U.S. who are at least 18 years of age may own a gun. Licensed firearms sellers may sell handguns to people who are not under 21 years old. But unlicensed people may sell or transfer handguns to people who are 18 years of age.
• Encourage extreme risk protection orders: Would give grants to states to encourage them to put laws on the books allowing families and law enforcement to remove -- temporarily -- a person's access to guns in order to prevent gun violence, if there are warning signs that the individual poses a danger. Such laws have been passed in Colorado and 14 other states, according to a release from the Hickenlooper campaign.
• Magazine limits and bump stocks: Hickenlooper passed magazine limits in Colorado and is pushing for similar action nationwide. He's also calling for Congress to codify the Justice Department's interpretation of a rule to effectively ban bump stocks, which are used to make legal firearms function in a manner similar to automatic weapons.
• Assault weapons ban: Calls for renewal of assault weapons ban, which was passed in 1994 and expired in 2004. Some in Congress have tried to renew the ban and failed. Hickenlooper acknowledged in his press release the problems with the earlier ban, noting that gun manufacturers found ways to evade the ban. He believes that the ban introduced by Democrats this year addresses many of the shortcomings of the prior bill. (Note-I also saw on 7 News where he proposes a ban on "Silencers")

• Boost access to mental health services for children: School-based mental health services and community health centers can help identify and support students "who require more intensive services or...law enforcement intervention," the campaign's press release noted.

Link to actual document: https://www.documentcloud.org/docume...ol-Policy.html

Funny thing is-nowhere on his website is there any mention of this or his agenda at all.



Discuss in a civil manner.

I shall begin: FJH

[10x]

Why does anyone listen to him. Milk toast governor who never had an original idea.

[Delfuego]

Milk toast governor who never had an original idea.

Never met a camera he didn't like either...

[Ramsker]

This is about as civil as I can get. Eff Hickenlooper and the unicycle he rode in on.

[Great-Kazoo]

When you're poll numbers are less than 1% you resort to typical leftist mantra to get noticed

[BladesNBarrels]

When your poll numbers are less than 1% you resort to typical leftist mantra to get noticed

True! I am waiting for him to do something very dramatic to gain recognition.

[Skip]

When you're poll numbers are less than 1% you resort to typical leftist mantra to get noticed

This and notice the crowd he's speaking to... The mostly out-of-state Dems who called him in 2013 and told him to pass the bills. Reminds me of "Beto" getting all that coastal money to turn Texas blue. Beto had to go far Left to get the cash but then couldn't get elected.

He always presented himself as being a socially moderate, pro-business Democrat.

But in order to have any sway with the DNC for a possible presidential run, he had to signal his intentions to them back in 2013, and as one of the government people most directly responsible for turning Colorado blue, he's probably got a lot of Good Boy points with the DNC.

But for him to have any shot at even getting basic attention for the nomination, he's going to have to bend the knee to the DNC, which means signing up for all of the planks in their party platform.

Yes and he chose not to run on that. He could have presented himself as a sane moderate in a field of radical socialists while talking up Colorado's business record. But he's running on gun confiscation instead and coming from a state where gun control caused recalls with continued mass shootings (failure as always).

This will play well in CA/NY.

[Rucker61]

When you're poll numbers are less than 1% you resort to typical leftist mantra to get noticed

Tru dat. All of the also-rans are starting to crank up the gun control rhetoric. We're going to see mo' mo' crazy as we get closer to the Democratic Convention.

[kidicarus13]

He will never be elected POTUS so I do not care what his views on guns are.

[Bailey Guns]

He will never be elected POTUS...

Even though I agree, that's what nearly EVERYONE said about Trump. In the words of Gomer Pyle - "Surpriiise, surprise, surprise!"