Hickenlooper to Gunowners: "I will take your guns"

[funkfool]

I sent him a letter last August regarding this - never even received a response.
My letter:
Mayor Hickenlooper,
I urge you to resign from the Mayors Against Illegal Guns coalition, (MAIG). I believe you need to reassess your membership and support of the MAIG because the organization has more than illegal guns in mind. I believe that the group is also against legal and lawful ownership of firearms. This is evident in their continuous mischaracterization of facts and outright falsehoods as stated by Mayor Bloomberg and other members.

From Mayor Bloomberg:
“The gun laws of one state affect the people of all the other states."
The mayors said they hope to stanch the flow of guns from states that have less-stringent laws by pressing for tougher gun-control measures nationwide...
A MAIG advertisement in PA:
The “Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act” (S. 845) would require Pennsylvania to honor concealed carry permits granted by other states, even when those permit holders could not meet the standards required by Pennsylvania law. This would strip Pennsylvanians of the power to create their own public safety laws, and hand that power to the states with the weakest protections.
The last thing we need in Pennsylvania is to have Congress gut our laws and endanger our police officers by allowing alcohol abusers and people convicted of impersonating a police officer to carry concealed guns in our communities.”

This is a lie.
The concealed carry reciprocity act does not allow this. Individual states have very stringent rules for permits. I challenge anyone to show me where, as MAIG states, “alcohol abusers and people convicted of impersonating a police officer” were allowed to acquire or keep a concealed carry permit.

Concealed carry permit holders are by nature, law-abiding citizens and the incident rate is far lees that the general population, estimates are in the hundredths of one percent for violent acts perpetrated by permit holders.

Bloomberg sponsors violation of Virginia law:
A few years back, Bloomberg hired private investigators to break the law in Virginia. In 2007, following a series of Bloomberg-sponsored undercover “sting” operations at gun shops in states including Virginia, Virginia passed a law prohibiting the Bloomberg practice of sending out civilian investigators who deliberately attempted to simulate straw purchases.

Regarding the Virginia Tech tragedy, Bloomberg stated:
“Lost family members would be alive if Virginia closed the so-called “gun show loophole.””
There are at least two major lies in that statement:
1) Murderer Seung-Hui Cho bought his guns legally at a regular firearms store and passed the government-mandated background check because mental health folks failed to report him. Then-Attorney General Bob McDonnell worked quickly to resolve that issue. Gun shows had nothing to do with Virginia Tech.
2) There is no “gun show loophole”. Dealers at gun shows must conduct all the background checks at gun shows that they do back at the store.
From the MAIG website:
“We respect the rights of law abiding citizens to own guns, and we recognize that the vast majority of gun dealers carefully follow the law. Our only interest is in fighting crime -- and we are determined to win. The polarizing rhetoric of gun politics on all sides only obscures the tragic reality we see every day on our streets: violent criminals with easy access to firearms.”

This is NOT their true agenda.
They want stricter gun laws in ALL 50 states.
The MAIG group is a virtual who’s who of anti-gun civil servants.
Civil servants… no, they are trying to push their personal agenda regardless of the safety of their constituents.
Again, I urge you to resign from this anti-gun group, as I firmly believe it is not consistent with your constituent’s rights and beliefs.

Thank you,
XXXXXXXXXXX

I urge every citizen of Denver to send him a letter similar to this...

[saddleup]

I sent him a letter last August regarding this - never even received a response.
My letter:
Mayor Hickenlooper,
I urge you to resign from the Mayors Against Illegal Guns coalition, (MAIG). I believe you need to reassess your membership and support of the MAIG because the organization has more than illegal guns in mind. I believe that the group is also against legal and lawful ownership of firearms. This is evident in their continuous mischaracterization of facts and outright falsehoods as stated by Mayor Bloomberg and other members.

From Mayor Bloomberg:
“The gun laws of one state affect the people of all the other states."
The mayors said they hope to stanch the flow of guns from states that have less-stringent laws by pressing for tougher gun-control measures nationwide...
A MAIG advertisement in PA:
The “Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act” (S. 845) would require Pennsylvania to honor concealed carry permits granted by other states, even when those permit holders could not meet the standards required by Pennsylvania law. This would strip Pennsylvanians of the power to create their own public safety laws, and hand that power to the states with the weakest protections.
The last thing we need in Pennsylvania is to have Congress gut our laws and endanger our police officers by allowing alcohol abusers and people convicted of impersonating a police officer to carry concealed guns in our communities.”

This is a lie.
The concealed carry reciprocity act does not allow this. Individual states have very stringent rules for permits. I challenge anyone to show me where, as MAIG states, “alcohol abusers and people convicted of impersonating a police officer” were allowed to acquire or keep a concealed carry permit.

Concealed carry permit holders are by nature, law-abiding citizens and the incident rate is far lees that the general population, estimates are in the hundredths of one percent for violent acts perpetrated by permit holders.

Bloomberg sponsors violation of Virginia law:
A few years back, Bloomberg hired private investigators to break the law in Virginia. In 2007, following a series of Bloomberg-sponsored undercover “sting” operations at gun shops in states including Virginia, Virginia passed a law prohibiting the Bloomberg practice of sending out civilian investigators who deliberately attempted to simulate straw purchases.

Regarding the Virginia Tech tragedy, Bloomberg stated:
“Lost family members would be alive if Virginia closed the so-called “gun show loophole.””
There are at least two major lies in that statement:
1) Murderer Seung-Hui Cho bought his guns legally at a regular firearms store and passed the government-mandated background check because mental health folks failed to report him. Then-Attorney General Bob McDonnell worked quickly to resolve that issue. Gun shows had nothing to do with Virginia Tech.
2) There is no “gun show loophole”. Dealers at gun shows must conduct all the background checks at gun shows that they do back at the store.
From the MAIG website:
“We respect the rights of law abiding citizens to own guns, and we recognize that the vast majority of gun dealers carefully follow the law. Our only interest is in fighting crime -- and we are determined to win. The polarizing rhetoric of gun politics on all sides only obscures the tragic reality we see every day on our streets: violent criminals with easy access to firearms.”

This is NOT their true agenda.
They want stricter gun laws in ALL 50 states.
The MAIG group is a virtual who’s who of anti-gun civil servants.
Civil servants… no, they are trying to push their personal agenda regardless of the safety of their constituents.
Again, I urge you to resign from this anti-gun group, as I firmly believe it is not consistent with your constituent’s rights and beliefs.

Thank you,
XXXXXXXXXXX

I urge every citizen of Denver to send him a letter similar to this...

This is why we need to put pressure on Hickenlooper. We NEED to know where he stands on guns in this state. Otherwise, we are in big trouble.

[Birddog1911]

This is why we need to put pressure on Hickenlooper. We NEED to know where he stands on guns in this state. Otherwise, we are in big trouble.

The SOB will just lie, like every one of those bastards.