Gun rights supporters flooded Senator Angela Giron’s town hall. Today, Bennet & Udall voted to avoid a similar fate.
The Democrat-controlled U.S. Senate shot down two gun control bills today, offering a sharp reminder to Governor Hickenlooper and Colorado’s State Senate Democrats of how far out on a limb they went on gun control.
The assault-weapons ban went down 60-40, with even Senators Bennet and Udall voting against it.
Reports The Colorado Observer‘s Mark Stricherz:
WASHINGTON — Four months after hinting they would support a ban on semi-automatic weapons, Colorado’s two Democratic senators voted no on a legislative proposal designed to do just that.
“(I)t went too far because it would also have banned certain hunting rifles and even some shotguns,” Sen. Mark Udall said in a press release. “If this bill had been more carefully crafted to only ban weapons designed for the battlefields and keep them out of the hands of the criminals and the mentally ill, I would have supported it.”
(Read more here)
After watching the political thrashing Democrats took at the Colorado Capitol for their own poorly crafted legislation, most especially on the magazine ban, Colorado’s U.S. Senators appear to have heard the public, backing themselves away from the issue.
The so-called “Toomey-Manchin” registration/background check bill also failed, garnering significant bipartisan opposition.
White House will say GOP killed Toomey-Manchin but really it was red state Democrats.
— Andrew Kaczynski (@BuzzFeedAndrew) April 18, 2013
Can Colorado political observers remember any issue at the Legislature that generated as much ground-level heat as the gun issue has this session?
If a state-level fight got that hot, can you really blame national Democrats for staying out of the kitchen?
UN gun ban
Bennett and Udall however voted for the in gun ban they are snakes in the grass and hick you don't deserve another term
if he isn't recalled first
The Looper won partly because of division in The GOP,Tancredo ran third party,he should have entered the race running as a Republican from the beginning.
Putittothepeople.com
Our ballot title is set. Time to petition to overturn the magazine restrictions.
I also sent a letter to Hickenlooper about this:
Governor Hickenlooper,
Today the U.S. Senate demonstrated that they have been paying very close attention to the will of American voters and their very grave concerns about the potential their Constitutional rights being taken away. Even more importantly, Senators Mark Udall and Michael Bennett, along with a majority of U.S. senators were evidently paying very close attention to what happened in Colorado when you recently signed the most sweeping gun control bills, into law in the history of this state. When you and the Democrat controlled legislature of the state of Colorado passed anti-gun, crime-enabling, anti-liberty laws that effectively strip law-abiding citizens in your state of their Constitutional rights and do effectively nothing to stop any future massacres and violent murders; you did this despite an overwhelming display of opposition from the majority of citizens in Colorado. Your actions have helped drive multiple businesses out of Colorado, along with hundreds, if not thousands, of jobs and the millions of dollars of tax revenue and economic impact that would have helped in our state’s recovery. Your actions have helped drive a boycott and from out of state hunting and fishing visitors that will deprive the Colorado Division of Wildlife of critical and lucrative revenue. Your actions have also helped spark and drive a movement in the firearms manufacturing industry to refuse to sell their products to law enforcement agencies and officers in states that create a privileged and oppressed class of citizens by depriving their own regular citizens of the right to own the same products. Senators Bennett and Udall have both apparently seen how poorly crafted and unconstitutional the anti-gun bills in Washington D.C. were and voted no. This is despite both having previously and publicly stating that they would support legislation that deprived law-abiding gun owners of their rights and would not address how to actually stop violent crime and the criminals who kill. If you have not realized by now, you are responsible for putting your own political future in jeopardy. You have awoken, galvanized and united a silent majority of voters who will turn out to vote against your reelection. Your own comments about requiring inconvenience from rural people for an urban issue will come back to haunt you in your 2014 reelection campaign. I am an active voter and I personally look forward to voting against you and helping campaign for whoever your opponent will be.
Thank you for your time and best regards,
Impeach hickindoofus
Where will you go when Wyoming falls?
He is star struck by all the money floating past his eyeballs…..
It should be a wake up call to them all, but I doubt it. The hard-core liberal progressives and left-wingers in Denver, Boulder, Pueblo and the celebrity "slat rats" in the resorts will continue control the politics of Kolorado. There's just too many of them with too much money. We've given up and are planning to move to Wyoming. Another paradise destroyed…
Anthony Fabian Time to upgrade to a Stihl 18" chainsaw…Get it done quick.
Do not let them off the hook! Keep fighting! Keep pushing! Let's get these recalls done and send a message. Join us to help us recall Senate President John Morse – one of the ringleaders of the fiasco and corruption here in CO.
Our focus now must to make the state recalls successful. That may limit some of the damage from next years legislative session. We need good candidates stepping up.
Good point! We can't let them off. They have a "D" behind their name and that says it all. They are not for the Second Amendment and the U.S. Constitution that we believe in.
Well Hickenlooper dose that anyway
Yep they will be gone , I think Obama will need someone to shine his shoes
They only voted no on the Feinstein Amendment. They voted for the background check amendment and the magazine ban amendment also.
Out on a limb…and we're breaking out the saw!
we are setting the example, to bad the new yorkers bowed down to the dictators in their state.
That's what I'm talking about, justice. Everyone put pressure on these senators and they are feeling the heat. If they want to keep their jobs they had better start doing what the people elected them to do and stop this obliteration of our rights. Our politicians here in Colorado abandoned us because of obama, biden and bloomberg. Now look at the mess you are in. We will do anything we can to replace the ones that went against us.
Wouldn't that be a dream come true? But somehow, once they get a handhold, they just keep coming back.. due to voters who need free stuff. =(
As a Colorado native of 48 years, Hickenlooper will forever go down in my states history as the worst Governor ever.
ALL Progressives might as well pack their bags in Colorado! Bye Hick!
Another clue that Hickenlooper will not be elected for a second term…