As some misguided American cities such as Memphis, Tennessee, and Savannah, Georgia, attempt to buck state law and create their own patchwork of gun laws designed to restrict Second Amendment rights, at least one city in Colorado is moving the opposite way to support Constitutional freedoms even as their state assembly works to restrict them. Last night, the Aurora City Council overwhelmingly voted to continue allowing concealed firearms in city hall and other government buildings, including to council meetings and other proceedings, in a move to “opt out” of Colorado Senate Bill 24-131.
That recently approved state bill bans possession of firearms in government buildings, polling locations and schools, but allows local governments to opt out of the law.
“If passed, the measure would allow council members, city staff and the public to continue bringing concealed weapons to council meetings and other proceedings at city hall, which increasingly have been marked by vitriol, infighting and outbursts with and among the public,” the Aurora Sentinel reported. Anyone who has ever attended a city council meeting or covered one for a newspaper knows that vitriol, infighting and outbursts are pretty common events where the voices of Democracy are required to be heard.
The Sentinel reports “the city previously banned unconcealed, or ‘open carry’ guns from city hall in 2015, and would continue to do so.” However, Councilmember Curtis Gardner, who proposed Aurora’s measure, explained the move to the Sentinel “as a symbolic reaction against increasing state gun control laws and as a matter of what he sees as local control.”
The council unanimously approved the ordinance on its first reading in July and was again, not opposed in the final approval with nine votes supporting the move and one abstention.
Last May, Douglas County in Colorado approved a similar resolution, the Denver Gazette reports.
The redcoats are coming! (In case no one knows.. The British are threatening to charge and extradite U.S. citizens from the US for their on line posts about the riots in the UK)
“Anyone who has ever attended a city council meeting … knows that vitriol, infighting and outbursts are pretty common events where the voices of Democracy are required to be heard.”
The reason for that is exceedingly simple: there are a large number of people in our population who vigorously want evil in our society–and are willing to get very ugly as they try their damnedest to make it happen. And for whatever reason, we reached a tipping point in our nation where said evil people are no longer afraid to issue their demands.
What we see at such meetings is no different than a violent rapist’s vitriolic outbursts for his victim to comply with his demand of rape–and the woman who responds with equally vitriolic outbursts for him to leave her alone. Of course the actual problem isn’t the woman’s vitriolic outbursts for the rapist to leave her alone: the actual problem is the rapist who is demanding rape.
The le.ga.lizati.on of pot in colorado is far more important, than anything written in the american Bill of Rights.
According to the smartest people in the room.
What’s stopping you from having both?
Some people in Californication are not having it…
leave the metro areas and California becomes way more normal and less leftist. it would be great if we could ditch the urban areas and have only the burbs, desert, central valley and mountains. then the coastal turds could just keep to their seaside toilet bowl.
I feel for the citizens of Aurora after the maniac shot up that movie theater so I understand their desire to defend themselves for that reason.
Kamala Harris VP Tim Walz Says To Ban AR-15s Because He Carried Them In War.
“Kamala Harris Vice President pick Tim Walz stated “I spent 25 years in the Army and I hunt. I’ve been voting for common sense legislation that protects the Second Amendment, but we can do background checks. We can research the impacts of gun violence. We can make sure those weapons of war, that I carried in war, are only carried in war”
Tim Walz’s humble bragging about going to war when he never saw combat is diabolical.
For some reason, Tim Walz thinks his veteran status gives him super sayin’ authority over the Constitution to tell citizens what they can and can’t use to protect themselves.
What makes him look even dumber is that an AR-15 is not a weapon used in war!
Tim, I, the rest of the gun community, and anyone who understands the Second Amendment don’t care about what you carried in a war you never fought in when you’re trying to use your service to infringe on constitutional rights.”
In 2020, Tampon Tim Walz ordered Police and National Guard to terrorize and fire on innocent peaceful citizens to enforce a curfew.
… supposedly with paintball guns, but there were muzzle flashes observed and paintball guns don’t have muzzle flashes. Now, I don’t know about what you think but the reality is there is no legal or constitutional justification in any state in the United States that allows a governor to deploy armed Police and National Guard (state government troops) to enforce a curfew and use that force against innocent peaceful citizens on their own property on their own porches and issue orders through basically the barrel of a gun concept to these innocent peaceful citizens, especially while that governor facilitates the, basically, violent terrorism actions of ‘protestors’ which were the reason the curfew was imposed. And these Police and troops were willing to obey an unlawful order and pull the trigger on their own innocent peaceful citizens, not protestors, because Walz ordered it.
Now, what would Harris and Walz do if they wanted to confiscate guns? Yep, Walz has shown he is willing to use the ‘Chairman Mao porotocol’ to impose his tyranny – what was that thing Mao said….oh yeah… “Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun” and he confiscated firearms and literally slaughtered millions of innocent peaceful citizens. This man, and Harris, are Mar – x – ist Soci- a – list commun – ist just like Mao was.
BREAKING 2A NEWS: ATF UNDER ATTACK LEGAL TODAY IN SCOTUS.
In the US Supreme Court, a major legal brief was filed arguing against the ATF’s 2022 Final Rule redefining a “frame or receiver.” Mark Smith Four Boxes Diner analyzes the key arguments.
ATF Appeals Pistol Brace Ban Case.