Shot from the gallery, and not the best quality, but the message is an important one: the force of law comes from a willingness to follow it, or a co-equal willingness of the police to enforce it.
What law enforcement determines to do going forward will dictate whether or not Colorado has become an actual police state. Because the fact of the matter is, unless you’ve kept your receipts for your grandfathered magazines — and have them on you — the police can simply determine that you purchased them sometime after the ban, and are therefore in violation of the law, which carries with it a 12-month sentence and a $5000 fine.
That is, the Democrat legislature has instituted a law whose enforcement mechanism can only work on the presumption of guilt. It will be up to citizens, then, to hire counsel and go before a judge and prove their innocence. At their own personal expense.
This is tyranny. That passed on a party line vote. With the ultimate goal being the disarming of the citizenry, as Senator Marble notes in remarks before the Senate.
A law aimed at criminalizing and demonizing lawful gun owners is a law that men and women of principle should refuse to follow. Senator Marble is exactly right: laws like these, passed by presumptuous legislators who know nothing about guns (and who are determined to remain ignorant, so long as it allows them to push their agenda), are a literal threat to the safety of those looking to protect themselves, their family, and their property.
And quite tellingly, Senator Marble speaks about the wishes of her constituency, and her responsibility to represent those wishes, in what is now thrown in sharp contrast to the philosophy of governance as articulated by the CO Senate President, Democrat John Morse.
Compare and contrast.
She has some stones.
I like her. She aims to misbehave.
I like that she throws the “woman’s right to choose” back in their faces (around the 4:00 mark). That’s the breakthrough that led the Lovely Bride away from statism. It finally occurred to her that her right to choose must also include others’ rights to choose to carry a firearm, to wear a seat belt, to eat fatty foods, to say hurtful words, and all the other choices that a free people are free to make.
Most pro-choice zealots only recognize one choice, and then only if you choose the right way. We need more people to throw their blinkered, narrow, hypocritical label back in their faces. Not just to call them out for what they are, but to remind others that there are many, many choices denied to them every day.
Outlaw!
Two. Abortion and sodomy are sacrosanct.
From registration, to new restrictions on ownership, to confiscation. A dance to the death of freedom.
Nice State you had there, too bad what was done to it by the left.
The Senate gets up to look for a partner for the same dance nationwide.
Policing priorities in Cook County. No, it’s not the murders you stupid peons, we have more important things in mind.
No, it’s not the murders you stupid peons, we have more important things in mind.
Harassing honest citizens is far easier and safer than apprehending criminals. Path of least resistance, dontcha know. That’s why they get the big bucks and cushy retirements.
Two. Abortion and sodomy are sacrosanct.
…though if there was more sodomy, there wouldn’t need to be quite so many abortions.
“Buggery for Babies!”
Over the years I have spent quite a bit of money fishing, hunting and vacationing within the lovey state of Colorado. I am now strongly considering spending my hard earned $ elsewhere and encouraging others to do the same.
Here in MN, we already see a lot of advertising for Montana tourism. One can only imagine who else will step up to encourage us to vacation outside Colorado.
The Chuck Schumer gun control wet dream act, Fix Gun Checks Act of 2013, has passed out of his Judiciary Committee on a Party line vote, 10-8.
California here we come.
another reason to make your own gun. no marks no trace
PDF of what became S -374 the Fix Gun Checks Act of 2013, here.
Another take on just what is in the Schumer bill and how it will affect us.
More there.
I think the poor wording of all these laws is a “feature” designed to make them more restrictive than they might appear at a glance. They’re working the LoFo crowd.
Meanwhile, they are releasing prisoners all over due to overcrowding, not to mention illegal alien felons because of sequestration.
I’m starting to become an America hater.
“I read that gun laws in America are virtually nonexistent. So when you tell me, Mr. Federal Agent, there’s a law says I can’t let my buddy Ralph fire my gun at the range, you gotta be lyin’ to me.”
“How many people saw you walk in here?”