Early Results Favor Pro-Gun Groups In Colorado Recall
Giron and Morse became the targets of recall efforts after helping to pass new gun restrictions including background checks for gun purchasers and limits on the size of ammunition magazines. The laws were spurred by shooting massacres like one in Aurora, Colo. in July 2012, which resulted in 12 dead and 58 people injured.
“They blamed Colorado gun owners for a tragedy they did not commit,” Dudley Brown, the executive director of Rocky Mountain for Gun Owners, told NPR. Brown’s group strongly opposed the gun laws.
Critics of the laws subsequently took steps to initiate the first ever recall of two state lawmakers in Colorado’s history.
The election results will be interpreted nationally as an important marker in the ongoing conflict between advocates and opponents of tightening gun restrictions. Indeed, the national view was that the recalls were an indicator as to whether national pro-gun groups had found a new way to fight gun restrictions. Observers and those involved in the recall elections said that if both Morse and Giron were recalled, pro-gun groups would look to use the same type of recall formula elsewhere in the country. That’s why prominent national gun control groups like New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s Mayors Against Illegal Guns got involved. The two sides pumped millions of dollars into the races.
Denver Post has more, including results.
I think enough people (non gun owners included) realize statist “gun contro;” is not about guns, it’s about control – and any pols pimping that dead horse are just scapegoating innocent people for the failure of their state monopoly on defensive use of arms.
In the US the backlash is even more viral because they have a constitutional guarantee that forbids state disarmament.
Hillary Clinton at least has the sense to blame gun violence on movies…..
It is great that the pro-gun groups are fighting back. Too bad we do not seem to be able to get our Conservatives to roll back a few more of the onerous firearms regulations here.
Although I am not sure why they use the word “guns”, as guns have wheels generally speaking and small arms are rifles of various sorts and pistols. Mind you, it might not be a bad idea to have a 75 mm on the front lawn.
Ken, the Conservatives at least got rid of the long gun registry.
Which seemed to have rubbed the RCMP the wrong way in High River.
What High River showed is that the HRGT must be disbanded. This organization seems to view the Gestapo as the ideal model of policing. It’s time to let PMSH know that we won’t settle for anything less than the total repeal of the totalitarian laws embodied in bill C68. At the very least, the situation should return to what it was in 1976 when no documentation whatever was required to purchase a non-restricted firearm. It’s clear that the registration system for pistols was totally broken even then as one of my revolvers vanished from the system (still have the old green registration document for it). I want to see the return of gunracks in the back of pickup trucks with no trigger locks on the rifles.
Once we get some sanity back into firearms laws, then it would be time to start pushing for concealed carry. Considering that the new health minister seems to be pushing an agenda of ending violence against women, it would be appropriate to point out how an unarmed woman is easy prey given the huge strength advantage possessed by men, but an armed woman is capable of defending herself. We have the latest study on defensive uses of firearms which the Obozo administration seems to be determined to bury as the conclusions were diametrically opposite to what the statists expected them to be.
The Canadian firearms community has been far too timid in pushing back and we should look at the in-your-face tactics that queers have used to push a totally self-inflicted disease to the forefront of funding for medical research. Such tactics could be used to disrupt violent films which are likely far more responsible for increasing homicide rates than easy access to guns. Brandon Centerwall published a paper on the relationship between TV and firearms violence about 30 years ago and the most vociferous critics of this connection are the Hollywood moonbats. It should be considered child abuse to allow children younger than 12 to watch TV.
This is what democracy looks like.
That’s what a representative Republic looks like. The onus is on the elected representative of the people to present the people’s wishes to the legislature.
Unlike a democracy where the people must align their wishes with some platform. You’re beat before you start with your choices decided for you, like some ever changing multiple choice quiz.
This kind of thing scares hell out of those who like to control the agenda.
The anti-gun lobby spent 6 times as much money and still lost.
NYC mayor Bloomer-buy lost $300,000.
Fair warning Demo-rats, don’t mess with our guns or religion..
“…”I’m a little perplexed. This is what I know: I know that I have not one iota of regret from what I voted on,” she said….”
There you have it folks – contrition. Just like Dildo McDinky, just like Turdo the Elder, just like so many politicians.
The arrogance stems from their notion that they were chosen to govern, not by an electoral process but rather, by a Higher Authority. You know, like Louis XIV.
Good. Pity they can’t recall the President.
“the Conservatives at least got rid of the long gun registry”
Did bureaucrats first make a backup of it, just in case.
For the safety of the kids, you know.
Here’s the definition of gun control, from an expert:
“One man with a gun can control one hundred without one.”
Vladimir Ulyanov
“…What High River showed is that the HRGT must be disbanded…”
It showed me how desperately we need property rights.
Ed;
Like so many other parts of the progressively dominated civil service the HRGT is simply treading water in anticipation of an eventual defeat of the CPC. Many people do not seem to realize that a government department’s main priority is self preservation. ‘Don’t steal from my rice bowl’! Have you ever heard a government worker who’s job description not include ‘essential’.
The first Reformer elected in Ontario was in Kannata(?) or Ottawa. At the time it was suggested that as the center for tech development in the East that the free enterprising techies voted Reform. My sister-in-law who works for the feds gave another reason. The Anglo federal government workers were experiencing more French speaking francophonies coming into management positions. These people were giving preference in hiring and advancement to fellow Quebecers. Who felt threatened and where did they look for help? Today’s civil servant now feals it is the CPC who is threatening them. Any cut in any department is viewed as short sited or a blatant attack on the underappreciated civil servants. When I suggest the imperative of a balanced budget I get a blank look.
This is a good time to lobby the hell out of our Conservative MP’s about gun control and a few other of our pet peeves.
Trudeau has them nervous,and a few thousand strongly worded E-mails just might help to get Harper to remember who voted for him and why.
Harper has been silent on the gun seizure in High River,but is slobbering all over Obama to ass-kiss him into approving Keystone.In view of the remarks by new guy in Australia,Harper needs to be reminded that you CAN tell the truth about “Climate Change” and still win elections.
But, not a word about rescinding C-68,the Firearms Act,that gives police almost the same powers as the U.S.’s Homeland Security. Police CAN still invade your home without warrant to inspect your firearm storage facilities.
And, we still have no property rights.
My MP never even bothered to reply to my E-mail about High River. The Chretien Liberals took 13 years to become arrogant and privileged,it seems some Conservatives have taken less time,like Mulroney’s gang in the 80’s and 90’s.
Our Conservatives have been thoroughly “Ottawashed”. They are enjoying the privilege of being the government a little too much,and have forgotten how they got there.
Oh, but they can. Today we honour not only the martyrs of New York City but the brave men who this day forty years ago liberated Chile from communism, and oversaw the recall of Salvador Allende to hell.
If you pray, pray that good men in the United States armed forces balk at the thought of their brothers being sent to die for Islam in Syria, and get on with the “recall” of Barack Hussein Obama.
This? This was theatre at most. Once again, fair elections are never suffered to take place if they’re likely to change anything of substance. If I learned Bloomberg had spent more than $300,000 of his own money teaching his daughter how to ride ponies, I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised. He has more than one way of relieving patriots of their guns, and the more effective ways run through DC, not Colorado. Two mediocrities in the legislature of a flyover state are not wasting the illusion of democracy on.
If the powers that be had had anything of real substance to lose, the prospect of serious trouble rolling over Colorado’s $53 billion worth of debt would have made the Colorado government look more carefully for reasons not to let the recall go ahead in the first place. Show me who controls the money supply in a nation, as it’s often and well said, and I’ll show you who’s really in charge.
Ken (Kulak)
You are one of my better students. GUNS HAVE WHEELS!
No, ya can’t have a ’75 as a lawn ornament….not even a replica…
Rizwan
Actually that was Mao T’se Tung….good quote tho’….
Dick Slater
Yeah this ain’t the end just the end of the beginning..
Keep yer powder dry…..
I thought it may be appropriate, at this juncture to address the “video games do not contribute to violence” nonsense.
Prior to WW1 no-one studied this sorta thing. Then it was discovered that 95-98% of green US troops would refuse to fire on people. By WW2 the % had dropped to about 1/2.
The reason for the change was the adoption of human silhouette targets instead of bulls-eyes.
The military invented/developed the video games. Currently the refusal rate is so small it is difficult to detect or measure.
This? This was theatre at most. Once again, fair elections are never suffered to take place if they’re likely to change anything of substance. Dick Slater
This recall was done against the will of the Democrats and the Republicans, and cast 2 liberal fascists out of power. And the election is “theatre”, to you?
This was not a fair election? Morse and Giron are, I’m sure, totally with you, on that count.
Probably the best example yet for recall as a democratic safety valve – and a prime example why the statist authoritarian left loath the idea.
Thank you sir. Buy ya a beer at the mess.
Try as I might, I can’t seem to find any reference to the recall results anywhere in Canada’s legacy media.
Strange that.