Who's written to their representatives today?

[JVC]

Keep contacting Bennett & Udall. Both will face a state wide election and Colorado is still pro gun. They can be influenced with enough contact from pro gun owners/fear of loosing their seats.

EXACTLY!

If we don't write, then the risk is that one of these guys will stand at the podium with a stack of emails from gun control advocates and say, "My constituents are begging for gun control."

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EXACTLY!

If we don't write, then the risk is that one of these guys will stand at the podium with a stack of emails from gun control advocates and say, "My constituents are begging for gun control."

I just meet with Perlmutter today. Clearly he does not agree with us. I did get his attention on the 'need' for an AR (my post Katrina example), he could not refute it but I did not change his mind. I did say 'the system' failed regarding the Aurora shooter who was clearly under the care of a mental health professional yet was able to purchase guns despite the little check box on the background check form. I also told him I have already compromised on my presumption of innocents due to background checks. He told me that only applied to a court room, my return expression called that BS, (probable cause anyone?) and smirked, I didn't bother shutting him down and he knew it.

I also told him I'm very uncomfortable with registration on the grounds of who knows what will happen 10, 20 or 50 years from now. I gave him my example of 1913. Who in their right mind would have predicted the rise of Hitler a short 20 years later?

Basically he was very nice but he's not going to update his opinion.

[JVC]

Perlmutter is a political opportunist, like most politicians! I admire you bringing the discussion directly to him, thank you. No, he won't change his vote, because he is squarely in the liberal wing of the Democratic camp and supporting an AWB or registration is how he can move up. That said, if ALOT of like-minded people show up to challenge his stance, then that can make a difference over time.

You are correct, in that the House will not pass an AWB. There may be some movement on a version of a universal background check, but we shall see. The gun control issue makes for strange bedfellows. For example, the NRA's statement that they have been behind a universal background check for two decades, but it has been the mental health lobby that up to this point has squashed putting the names of patients and those who got treatement for mental illness into a database.

As time passes, we have to keep writing our reps, showing up in their offices and when called, show-up at functions and rallies.