Posted by
NOTLEGALROADKILLYET on Tuesday, January 30, 2007 11:29:55 PM
This summer, as I was making phone calls for Bob Beauprez, I happened to call an independent in Parker, Colorado who was upset at his Republican neighbors. It seems that they were driving around with Ritter bumper stickers. When he asked them why, they told him that they believed that Bill Ritter would protect their gun rights better than Beauprez!
A month or two later, I walked a precinct in Arapahoe county, about ten miles from Parker. There I met a Republican who was supporting Ritter because he thought Ritter would impose gun control on Colorado. I wrote about this when the blog was only a few weeks old.
I knew they couldn't both be right, and yet Ritter's campaign had them both convinced that the other was wrong.
Now, newly elected Colorado Springs Democratic State Senator John Morse has proposed
SB 34 to end the reciprocity of certain gun permits.
I note that Morse doesn't want Coloradoans to vote on the issue and so he has evoked the Safety Clause. That is a show of real confidence.
I also note that he had no co-sponsors in the House.
No one has said so, but my prediction is that Ritter will sign this bill after it passes through the House and Senate on a party line vote. I wonder when he will be building his gun ranges.
The Denver Post had a story on it called "
Bill closing gun-permit loophole gets early OK"