Haunted by mass violence, Colorado confronts painful history
3 years, 9 months ago

Haunted by mass violence, Colorado confronts painful history

Associated Press  

DENVER — Dawn Reinfeld moved to Colorado 30 years ago to attend college in the bucolic town of Boulder. “People now say, ‘gee, what is it about Colorado?’” said Tom Mauser, whose son Daniel was killed at Columbine High School in 1999. Gun control activists say one place to observe the impact of mass shootings is in the state’s politics. In November, the Democratic governor who signed the post-Aurora gun control measures, John Hickenlooper, won a U.S. Senate seat from Colorado’s last major statewide elected Republican. “It’s happening in other places, too, we just can’t get people to report on that.” Not all touched by the state’s history of massacres have become gun control backers.

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Colorado governor signs 4 gun control bills after massacre
1 year, 7 months ago

Colorado governor signs 4 gun control bills after massacre

Associated Press  

DENVER — Colorado’s governor signed four gun control bills Friday, following the lead of other states struggling to confront a nationwide surge in violent crime and mass shootings, despite a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling that expanded Second Amendment rights. “It’s a sad day for Colorado; we are becoming one of the most anti-Second Amendment states in the nation,” said …

Colorado Governor Signs Gun Control Bills After Latest Massacre
1 year, 7 months ago

Colorado Governor Signs Gun Control Bills After Latest Massacre

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING DENVER — Colorado’s governor signed four gun control bills Friday, edging the once-purple state closer to liberal-leaning governments in California and New York just months after a shooting at an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs, the latest in the state’s long history of notorious massacres. The new laws, which Democrats pushed through despite late-night filibusters from Republicans, …

Colorado gun control bills progress; semi-auto ban unlikely
1 year, 8 months ago

Colorado gun control bills progress; semi-auto ban unlikely

Associated Press  

DENVER — A high school student told Colorado state lawmakers he’d work to oust them if they didn’t support a sweeping ban on semiautomatic weapons. While Washington state’s Democratic-controlled Legislature cleared a semiautomatic rifle ban Wednesday, Colorado Democrats, who hold a 9-4 majority on the committee, have voiced concerns over the bill’s constitutionality and breadth. “We are ready to make …

Colorado Springs' perfect storm of madness
2 years, 1 month ago

Colorado Springs' perfect storm of madness

Raw Story  

Back on May 24, an 18-year-old gunman killed 19 schoolchildren and two teachers at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. Rarely have we seen the mainstreaming of right-wing propaganda and the fetish for guns come together so perfectly as we did this past weekend in Colorado Springs, when an angry young man stepped into a gay bar and started shooting, …

Op-Ed: Club Q shooting in Colorado Springs follows six brutal years of Republican anti-LGBTQ rhetoric
2 years, 1 month ago

Op-Ed: Club Q shooting in Colorado Springs follows six brutal years of Republican anti-LGBTQ rhetoric

LA Times  

Nelly and Ivanna Brusnell place flowers near a gay nightclub in Colorado Springs where at least five people were killed on Saturday night. It’s been six years since she woke me up early on a Sunday whispering “something terrible happened in Orlando.” In 2016, in the wake of the Pulse nightclub shooting in which a young man killed 49 people, …

Colorado county moves to change local gun control laws
2 years, 5 months ago

Colorado county moves to change local gun control laws

Associated Press  

DENVER — Over a year after Colorado was rocked by a shooting that left 10 people dead in a King Soopers supermarket, one county is proposing gun control ordinances that include raising the minimum age to purchase firearms and prohibiting the sale of assault weapons. “It’s all too prevalent.” The restrictions go far beyond state and federal gun regulations and …

U.S. gun laws are causing mayhem and mass murder — and Republicans couldn't be more thrilled
2 years, 6 months ago

U.S. gun laws are causing mayhem and mass murder — and Republicans couldn't be more thrilled

Salon  

After reassuring multiple people by text that my partner and I had been tucked safely in bed at 11:30 on Saturday night, I finally cracked and posted a general reassurance on Facebook. Dramatic gun violence really helps sell this message, which is why Republicans are guaranteed to block any bill that would make it even slightly harder for violent and …

Police: Man killed 6, self after he wasn’t invited to party
3 years, 7 months ago

Police: Man killed 6, self after he wasn’t invited to party

Associated Press  

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — A man who fatally shot six people at a Colorado birthday party before killing himself was upset after not being invited to the weekend gathering thrown by his girlfriend’s family, police said Tuesday, calling the shooting an act of domestic violence. The shooter, 28-year-old Teodoro Macias, had been in a relationship with one of the victims, …

US: Gunman storms birthday party in Colorado, killing six people
3 years, 7 months ago

US: Gunman storms birthday party in Colorado, killing six people

Al Jazeera  

The shooter, whose identity is yet to be revealed, killed six people in the city of Colorado Springs before taking his own life, police said. A man has fatally shot six people, including his girlfriend, before turning the gun on himself at a birthday party in Colorado, authorities in the US state said. “The suspect, a boyfriend of one of …

Haunted by mass violence, Colorado confronts painful history
3 years, 9 months ago

Haunted by mass violence, Colorado confronts painful history

The Independent  

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “People now say, ‘gee, what is it about Colorado?’” …

Will Colorado shooting prompt US gun reform?
3 years, 9 months ago

Will Colorado shooting prompt US gun reform?

Al Jazeera  

After every mass shooting, gun control supporters call for stricter federal laws, only to have their ideas sidelined. The debate about US gun control laws is thrust back into the spotlight following the mass shooting at a Boulder, Colorado, supermarket, the second mass killing in the United States in a week. And we’re going to have to come together and …

Colorado Democrats Consider Ban On Assault Weapons After Mass Shooting
3 years, 9 months ago

Colorado Democrats Consider Ban On Assault Weapons After Mass Shooting

NPR  

Colorado Democrats Consider Ban On Assault Weapons After Mass Shooting Enlarge this image toggle caption Michael Ciaglo/Getty Images Michael Ciaglo/Getty Images Colorado could be the next state to consider a ban on "assault-style" weapons, Colorado Public Radio has learned, although discussions are still in the preliminary stages at the state capitol and no legislation has been introduced yet. Ten people …

Victims, suspect named in Colorado supermarket mass shooting
3 years, 9 months ago

Victims, suspect named in Colorado supermarket mass shooting

Al Jazeera  

US President Joe Biden calls for gun regulation after the latest US mass shooting. A 21-year-old man faces 10 counts of murder in connection with Monday’s mass shooting at a grocery store in the US city of Boulder, Colorado, local authorities said during a press conference on Tuesday as President Joe Biden called for stricter gun rules. Maybe they’re making …

Editorial: Our gun scourge once again claims victims in Colorado
3 years, 9 months ago

Editorial: Our gun scourge once again claims victims in Colorado

LA Times  

Here we are again. We’ve gotten to the point where we have a code phrase for the obligatory but meaningless public reactions of political leaders: “thoughts and prayers,” the “gesundheit” for this common affliction — gun death — a violence so routine we even have linguistic rituals for it. As of Tuesday morning, the Gun Violence Archive recorded 4,123 people …

Colorado congressman calls for federal action on gun legislation in wake of Boulder mass shooting
3 years, 9 months ago

Colorado congressman calls for federal action on gun legislation in wake of Boulder mass shooting

CNN  

Washington CNN — Rep. Jason Crow is urging Congress to act on gun measures that he argues would make communities safer in the wake of a deadly mass shooting Monday in his home state that left 10 people dead. It’s that simple,” the Colorado Democrat told CNN’s John Berman on “New Day.” Ten people, including a police officer, were killed …

Why State Gun Control Laws Failed To Prevent Boulder Shooting : Consider This from NPR : NPR
3 years, 9 months ago

Why State Gun Control Laws Failed To Prevent Boulder Shooting : Consider This from NPR : NPR

NPR  

Colorado Shooting Reveals Limits Of State Gun Control — And Steels Activists For More Enlarge this image toggle caption Chet Strange/Getty Images Chet Strange/Getty Images Colorado has universal background checks, a red flag law and the city of Boulder recently passed an assault weapons ban. None of it was enough to stop a man from shooting and killing 10 people …

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