News article on Colorado CCW status

[Str8Shooter]

Today's Rocky Mountain News carried an article about new CCW permits dropping off in numbers after the first three years.

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_4735075,00.html

I found it interesting that a spokesperson for the Brady Campaign said that CCW laws don't decrease or increase crime. That certainly wasn't what the Brady Bunch were saying when doing their usual Chicken Little routine before the shall-issue law was passed by the legislature!

Of course, Ted Pascoe- a career gun-control zealot- had to express his fear that someone could actually sit in a theater next to him with a gun "pointing straight at him". Even after three years of successful shall-issue permits, this guy has to pretend that he feels threatened by law-abiding citizens possessing CCW permits.

Kudos to the Larimer County Sheriff, Jim Alderdon, for sticking up for us CCW folks!

 

[Hyunchback]

Okay. So that means when I apply things should sail right through since they have less work on their desks due to falling application numbers?

 

[Standing Wolf]

"If in fact it's true that gun deaths have not increased since this law was passed," he said, "I would say that it's because most people who get permits are actually sensible enough to not carry that gun everywhere they go."

Need you ask why I don't subscribe to either of Denver's "news" papers?

 

[Hyunchback]

The resons not to subscribe to Denver's "two" newspapers far outweight any benefit they bring. Especially since it seems like every other month they are dumping them on my driveway free of charge anyway. 6 out of 7 days those go straight to the garbage can. On Sundays out come the Comics pages, sale brochures from sporting goods retailers (if present) and the rest of it goes into the garbage.

 

[scottgun]

This story was in every newspaper, on every local TV news show and even on radio news. Is it really news that the number of CCWs issued is at an all time low? I don't see it as being news. They never mention now many people get drivers licenses per year.

 

[The-Fly]

a side note: Sheriff Alderen is well liked by the gunnies here in Larimer county, he signs class 3 apps without issues.

 

[jlbraun]

I just applied for my Colorado CCW permit! Add one to the rolls!

 

[Str8Shooter]

This story was in every newspaper, on every local TV news show and even on radio news. Is it really news that the number of CCWs issued is at an all time low? I don't see it as being news. They never mention now many people get drivers licenses per year.

It really isn't news, since the same thing has likely happened in every state that has passed a shall-issue law, after the initiial rush for permits, nor is there any real controversy about the Colorado law that I've heard anytime recently. I think perhaps the reporter is hoping to stir up a controversy.

I just applied for my Colorado CCW permit! Add one to the rolls!

Good for you! If you don't exercise your rights, don't be surprised if you lose them. The anti-CCW crowd think that if enough people don't apply for permits, that's reason enough to do away with them.

For those who don't live in Colorado and may not have heard of it, the one case of a shooting by a CCW permit holder happened in Aurora. A Denver restaurant owner who has a CCW permit was visiting a Blockbuster Video store and got into an argument with another guy and his wife over one of them bumping the other's car door. I never got it straight from the news reports who was the "bumper" and who the "bumpee", but the argument escalated to the point that the other guy started hitting the restaurant owner over the head with a metal pipe. He pulled his gun and fired several shots, killing the man and wounding his wife. The case went to a grand jury, which found that the restaurant owner acted in self defense. I'm not sure it would even have gone that far if not for the fact that the shooter was white and the other couple black, so the local race-baiters immediately tried to turn it into a racial incident.