What Happened in Colorado and Why - A Warning to Other States

[Connecticut Yankee]

This is a fascinating article with a warning for other states with an influx of liberals. The author contends that Utah may well be next and thinks that Wyoming, Montana and Idaho are also possible.

What Happened in Colorado and Why.

by Jim Shults in "Tactical Gun Review"

http://tacticalgunreview.com/happened-colorado/

Folks across the Nation have been asking us what happened to Colorado regarding a rash of new highly- restrictive firearm laws and with the promise of legislators of more to come in 2014. Here is how it really happened.

Sniveling first: This white paper comes from firsthand knowledge. We know personally, have met with and gathered facts with, from, and about many of the players in this mess. We have lived in Colorado for decades and have been directly involved in fighting against previous and recent anti-Second Amendment actions by our newly elected Democrat majority Colorado State Legislature and governor. This paper is limited to firearm issues not the other controversial Colorado majority legislature plans, regulations, bills, and laws that cover a myriad of other seriously transformative issues we are also becoming famous for doing in our now threatened progressive state.

We worked to keep this work unbiased-it may not look that way but we tried. SO IF you are anti-gun, want citizen firearm restrictions, a critic of the Constitution, a critic of the 2nd Amendment, a loyal Californian regardless, a hard core “left wing” Democrat, liberal or a Progressive, this document will just anger or frustrate you. That is NOT the purpose and we simply suggest you not read it. The facts and how they politically align are just that –the facts.

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CONCLUSION and the GOAL
The ACTUAL overall national strategic by anti-Second Amendment, anti-freedom state politicians and Bloomberg is to demonstrate that if highly-restrictive anti-firearm laws can be passed in wild ass, good ole boy, conservative, firearm loving, deer hunting, outdoor, rancher, cowboy, western gee wiz Colorado then it can and should and will be done in other states so as to protect the people from themselves!

Look out Utah, Wyoming, Montana and Idaho you are next and it won’t take too many newly arrived outside voters and big money tactics to overcome your small populations to gain those valuable U.S. Senate and Congressional seats and repopulate your state capitols with like-minded forward leaning left wing legislators! Texas of course is the ultimate trophy for all of this extremely dangerous activism and Californians at this time are pouring in to Texas like Niagara Falls for the jobs and solid economics and freedom; until they begin to vote.

Anyway, now you know the rest of the story.

 

[barnbwt]

I always thought the root cause was a bunch of state-level legislators being swept into power by promoting a number of socially-liberal pet causes having nothing to do with guns (namely decriminalization of weed), thus 'priming the pump' for an inevitable policy overreach when something like the theatre shooting occurred (the overreach began then, culminating with the aftermath of the Newtown shooting). The historically-recent socially-liberal bent more or less caused by a general lack of engagement or interest in supposed "silent majority" who were supposed to have never supported this (I say 'supposed' because I am unconvinced this is actually the case, anymore).

I think the lesson to be learned was to be wise when voting as a single-issue constituent, and focus only on areas that are both a) important, and b) tend to logically reinforce other policy areas you value. Legal weed does nothing to protect the RKBA, but the ideals of individual responsibility supported by the 2nd dovetails nicely with the notion that the population can be trusted with an intoxicant carrying a certain level of responsibility in its use, and that illogical prohibition laws are inherently unfeasible.

"We worked to keep this work unbiased-it may not look that way but we tried. SO IF you are anti-gun, want citizen firearm restrictions, a critic of the Constitution, a critic of the 2nd Amendment, a loyal Californian regardless, a hard core “left wing” Democrat, liberal or a Progressive, this document will just anger or frustrate you."
Great start, btw. Alienate half the audience immediately, and a good portion of otherwise like-minded folks besides (like myself). You then proceed to 'blame the Californians' even though such a state of affairs is something we can do absolutely nothing about (unless you favor restricting interstate travel), as well as the omnipresent 'iberal media' even though they have the loudspeaker they do because they have sympathetic listeners. Rousing the base this last go-around could have stemmed the anti-gun tide temporarily, because the worst of it was passed on razor margins. But trying to hold back a tide as big as urbanization with a force as small as Coloradans can muster is impossible. You won't beat them, so get them on your side; shown them how your message can fit with theirs, and why they need your gunnie folks to achieve their goals.

The article concludes with a more or less fatalistic outlook on the prospects of any location that catches the eyes of the big cities. As though making your state as dirt-poor and undesirable as possible is the route to freedom. Pretty useless strategy, I have to say.

Tides change, and unless you want your cause to be swept away, you have to ride the wave (and no, I'm not from California ). I would suggest the gun folks get honest about their priorities, and refuse to focus on anything but, at least until the issue is once again a third rail. It's not like those social-conservatives have a great track record of acting in our favor, either.

TCB

 

[Robert]

This is a bit too far over the politics line for THR.