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Denver Post Editorial piece.
Todays Post has an editorial on why the AWB should be reinstated and Colorado should lead the way. I can't link it but dig it up if you want to puke.
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What? An anti-gun editorial from a news publication? What's the world coming to?
It was written by a woman who lives in Aspen and writes periodically for the Post. She thinks she is witty and deep. She is glad Colorado is a blue state.
“Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense and is conscious that he gains protection while he gives it.” Andrew Jackson
A veteran is someone who, at one point in his life, wrote a blank check made payable to 'The United States of America ' for an amount of 'up to and including my life.'
That is Honor, and there are way too many people in this country who no longer understand it.
Wow, just wow. I miss the old Colorado when there wasn't this many idiots in this state.
This stuff just pisses me off to no end.
But a Constitution of Government once changed from Freedom, can never be restored. Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.
-John Adams, 1775
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"I believe that we are all one mistake away from tragedy...and the mistake made may not be ours."
Just wait, Ducky. You don't think amendment 64 isn't going to draw in tons more hippy/liberal types from other states? Hell, half the popluation of California will probably move here in the next couple of years.Originally Posted by 02ducky
My wife & I were just talking about this very thing today. Seems one of the friends of her family is moving to Colorado just for Amdmnt 64. He won't admit it to your face but everyone knows that is why he's doing it. So you don't have to wait for years to come for this to come true. It's happening already.
I went and dug up the column. Was a pain to find it, even though it was dated today.
Read it and could not help but respond and try to engage this person in debate. Below is my email to Meredith Carroll.
Dear Meredith,
After reading your column I felt the need to respond and invite you to discuss this topic further.
I think you did the topic much injustice by using rhetoric and statements designed to evoke fear to convince citizens to agree with you and ban semi automatic military pattern rifles. The firearms you wish to ban are not actually assault weapons and in most of the incidents you refer to, pistols were the tool used. Do you also propose to ban this type firearm as well?
opinion
M. Carroll: It's not the Wild West anymore
Colorado has proven its mettle. Now it must push to reinstate a federal assault weapons ban.
Posted: 11/18/2012 12:01:00 AM MST
By Meredith C. Carroll
"I think we should, and I think that's where it starts," U.S. Rep. Ed Perlmutter, a Democrat from Colorado, replied over the summer on CBS's "Face the Nation" when asked about reinstating the assault weapons ban following the movie theater massacre in Aurora.
On Election Day 2012, for the second time in four years, Colorado made its mark on the map as a solidly blue state. As such, it seems there's no moment like the present for the Centennial State to stop acting quite so yellow and do nothing more than chat about change when the cameras are rolling, and instead reflect somberly on our anachronistic gun laws and think bravely and earnestly about making significant modifications to ensure a less violent future.
Citizens are cowardly if they choose to exercise the right to self protection? The police are not there to protect you, they cannot, they can only respond after you have been victimized. Look around the world, banning firearms does not lessen violence, it only disarms the future victims.
The Wild West was tamed ages ago. Colorado has long since become the crown jewel of the glorious West, where we've proven through our lifestyle — and elected officials — that social, environmental and quality-of-life issues are close to our hearts.
As such, it's about time we recognize that eyes on the back of our heads and a finger on the trigger at all times is not only unnecessary, but also unreasonably mistrustful. We've evolved meaningfully — although judging by the easy availability of such agents of death as a Smith and Wesson .223-caliber assault rifle outfitted with a 100-round magazine, it's hard to really blame those who fear a high-noon shootout outside the swinging doors of the saloon.
Being armed is not being mistrustful, it is being responsible for ones own safety. The firearm used in the Aurora theater shooting is not the agent of death, the disturbed person wielding it is. He was out to harm people, the weapon he chose made very little difference.
It's a deadly cycle, though: We're scared of others wielding weapons, so we go out and buy them for ourselves as a means of self-defense. It's safe to say, however, that most members of Colorado's imaginary militia are arming themselves out of paranoia instead of a threat-based in reality.
While students on college campuses around the country have had to run for their lives too many times to count from deranged classmates firing guns, Colorado colleges and universities are forced to welcome many brandishing them thanks to a recent state Supreme Court ruling upholding a ghastly law allowing students with concealed-weapons permits on campus.
Those students had to run for their lives because they did not have the tools to defend themselves. The campuses they were on do not permit students to protect themselves. They force them to be at the mercy of an attacker until the police can respond. I don't know about you but I have no desire to face unarmed, a deranged person with any weapon until the police arrive.
Your statement about students brandishing weapons is disingenuous at best. Brandishing a weapon is already illegal and crimes committed by conceal carry permit holders are so rare as to be statistically irrelevant.
A Sept. 22 article in The New York Times about the unease of faculty members at the University of Colorado regarding the law said one particular CU-Colorado Springs student carries a Ruger p90 pistol on campus "for protection" when he leaves school in the dark.
It's hard to argue against someone who needs legitimate defense, except CU-Colorado Springs security guards are actually state-certified police officers who meet the same qualifications as municipal law enforcement officials, plus they carry weapons and can make arrests, and readily offer to escort students at night, according to a university spokeswoman. Emergency phones are located throughout that campus, too, and other CU campuses have similar and additional protections in place.
So a victim only has to fend off an attacker long enough to get to one of these phones and then wait for police to respond?
Without diminishing students' fears of walking alone in deserted areas late in the evening, carrying a gun when armed and trained professionals are available for literal and figurative hand-holding is like showing up to squash a spider with a grenade missing its pin.
Maybe some people live in neighborhoods so unsafe they feel as if they have no choice but to keep a pistol under their pillow, but just how adept at using it will they be if awoken from a deep slumber? Can they be certain those bumps in the night weren't a raccoon knocking over a trash can or their teenage children sneaking in past curfew? Have burglar alarms been ruled out? What about working with local police departments to beef up neighborhood security? Maybe get a stronger lock on the front door?
You mention many scenarios except the one were the bad guy gets inside and intends to harm you and your family. If you are armed you have a chance to survive. If unarmed you have no choice but to be a victim at the mercy of the bad guy.
We need to figure out how to stop laypeople from being so ready and willing to mete out punishments that aren't on par with crimes that haven't even been committed. And we need to hold our elected officials to becoming proactive instead of reactive.
It's a hopeful sign that we voted to keep Colorado's rivers and streams running blue, but we also need to make sure this cowardly yellow tint we've been harboring for so long doesn't stain them blood red.
This column is not about keeping the citizenry safe. It is about banning firearms, all of them. Beginning with the incorrectly labeled assault weapons and moving on to the rest. Law abiding citizens do not commit crimes and criminals do not follow laws or recognize bans. If successful you will only remove the victims ability to protect and defend themselves.
Thank you for your time.
Kevin Koger
Alright who's going to pony-up for a full-page Ad in the Denver Post with Buffalobo's reply in it. I'd pitch in $10.
I'll pitch $10 as well. wonder what it costs...of course they probably won't publish it...and nobody reads the paper and it certainly won't change their opinion. people have their minds made up, they just like articles to reinforce their opinion. works for both sides. where we need to succeed is with the youth. get them involved, get them educated, get them wise.
I plan to submit it to the post as a response to the printed article as well. Not much expectation though. I have written probably 10 times to Post over the years. Have yet to get any printed yet. Any replies by M. Carroll or the Post will be copied here.
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