Posted on 11/04/2015 9:16:08 AM PST by Citizen Zed
When an alarmed resident called just before the rampage, the dispatcher told her it's legal to carry a rifle in public.
As I first reported late Monday, questions are hanging over how the Colorado Springs Police Department handled a 911 call on Saturday morning, when a resident saw a man carrying a rifle on her residential block prior to a deadly gun rampage. The caller, Naomi Bettis, was alarmed about 33-year-old Noah Harpham - who soon went on to shoot three people to death in the area before being killed by police. But when Bettis made the 911 call, her first of two, the police dispatcher apparently reacted without urgency, telling Bettis about Colorado's law allowing firearms to be carried openly in public. Bettis hung up, and when she called back it was because the killing was underway.
Did Colorado's open carry law in effect hinder a police response to Harpham before he struck?
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