Posted on 03/16/2013 3:53:24 AM PDT by LD Jackson
I can't help but wonder if some of our politicians are simply lacking knowledge, or if they are willfully ignorant about the implications of the legislation they pass through their chambers. Let's look at a case in point and see if we can come up with an answer. The state of Colorado is as good a place to start as any.
Colorado is a state that should epitomize the American West. It is as rugged as any state in America, with the Rocky Mountains raising their jagged tops into the sky. One would think the state would seek to protect and defend the 2nd Amendment, but it has been in the news lately because of its attacks on the one amendment that serves to help protect our Constitution. I can give them a bit of a pass (not much) because of the shooting at the theater in Aurora, but what we have seen coming out of the Colorado State Legislature leads me to believe liberals really have taken over the state.
Consider this for a moment. The knee-jerk reaction to the shootings in Aurora, CO and Newtown, CT has been to pass legislation that will ban something the shooters used. The easiest targets have been the AR-15 and any magazine that is capable of holding more than a certain number of bullets. The most common numbers we have seen are 10, which is in the bill about to be debated in the United States Senate, and 15, which is in the bill that has passed in Colorado and is awaiting Governor John Hickenlooper’s signature. He is expected to sign it into law. It is troubling enough that this legislation was passed, but it is even more so, considering the way it is worded.
(The Daily Caller) Colorado Democratic Rep. Rhonda Fields, whose bill to ban ammunition magazines that hold more than 15 rounds ignited an ongoing firestorm of protest and which could cost the state jobs if a manufacturer of such equipment makes good on its promise to move to another state, didn’t realize that her bill would outlaw practically every magazine currently for sale in the state.Isn't it strange how this wording always seems to find itself into legislation such as this? Does anyone really believe Representative Fields didn't know her legislation contained wording that would effectively ban every magazine in Colorado? If she is telling the truth, then she is an incompetent legislator who hasn't done her job. If she is lying when she says she didn't know how her legislation was worded, then she is just that; a liar out to push her own liberal agenda of gun control.That’s because the bill specifies that magazines that can be “readily converted” to hold more than 15 bullets will also be outlawed.
Practically every magazine on the market can be easily converted with readily available extenders, as demonstrated in a video posted by John Caldera, the president of the libertarian Independence Institute.
Fields told 9News that she had no idea her bill would effectively ban nearly all magazines with removable base plates for which extenders are made.
“I’m just hearing about that now,” she told the news station. “Our focus was on the number of bullets you can put in a magazine.”
She said still supports the bill as drafted.
“I’m not envisioning changing that because of a little plate that you can pull out,” she said. “I’m hoping that people will just comply with the law.”
How many times do we have to go through this before we realize these things have consequences? Mary Katherine Ham said it best at Hot Air.
So, you know, we like to keep our eyes on the actual language of legislation, not just Feeling Good about Doing Something, as the liberal approach to legislating dictates.
Folks, the bill outlaws your family from keeping the current legal magazines upon your death. That is confiscation.
No one has addressed what is to be done.
I hope you're right, but I'm afraid that too many latte-sipping Kalifornia liberals have fled the Golden State for the slopes of Colorado that it may be too late.
Agreed, but this opens us up to harassment by LEO’s including forestry, fish & game, and other types when shooting on public lands.
It’s become our patriotic duty not to co-operate with any government officials on any level. Civic sabotage.
Deny. Defy. Do not Comply.
I always thought that the West was conservative but I will have to read this book.
The Blueprint: How the Democrats Won Colorado (and Why Republicans Everywhere Should Care)
By: Ned Ryun (Diary) | April 14th, 2010 at 09:46 AM | 0
I recently finished an early copy of a book called The Blueprint: How the Democrats Won Colorado (and Why Republicans Everywhere Should Care). It is a fascinating read about what took place in Colorado over the course of about 5 years, and how a group of very wealthy progressives changed the entire political landscape of Colorado by thinking outside the box.
It was the 4 million Conservatives who could not stand Romney and stayed home in a hissy fit. To them is owed our current administration and the state governments who coat-tailed it in.
Look at it this way: Ms. Fields may be a total dumbass, but at least she knows the difference between a magazine and a clip. Lots of people way smarter than her don’t.
I hope you are wrong but fear you aren’t.
So it’s primarily demographic change in CO that is responsible for the left turn in recent cycles?
I know Bush had no trouble there, but since then it has been aweful.
Colorado liberals : Giving the nod to baby-rape while infringing up on a Constitutionally protected God given right to bear arms.
Then there is the old method used by those who have no bolt lock when the magazine is empty. Count your rounds.
If you have a 10 rd magazine you count nine rounds fired and drop the magazine. This keeps one round still in the chamber while you reload.
Anti-gunners are not realists living in a fantasy world.
Their goal is not gun control but control.
Colorado’s economy is easily 1/3 federal government spending. It is home to the Federal Center (largest federal employee center outsidee DC), NORAD, North Command, Space Command, several major NRO and NSA satellite processing and data centers, Pueblo munitions depot, numerous space and missile companies, etc, etc, etc.
Large magazine propaganda is a hoax.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQ109iYdrI8
Colorado governor refuses to meet with Sheriffs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQ109iYdrI8
This is a gun grab pure ans simple. It seems that the government is trying to start a civil war so they can use there 2700 armored vehicles and 32,00 drones and billions of bullets purchased by HLS.
Colo went for Baraq > 5 percentage points in 012.
I’d say it’s beyond salvage.
Here is a woman legislator, making a law that would disarm women. How does that feel, idiot???
“I can’t help but wonder if some of our politicians are simply lacking knowledge, or if they are willfully ignorant about the implications of the legislation they pass through their chambers.”
Uh... can’t it be both?
Our founders included protection from government for us. It was the Federal Judicial System and the United States Supreme Court. They were fatally flawed in one respect, at least now having benefit of history to reflect upon.
They did not fully anticipate that the Federal Judicial System would become a hotbed of rabid liberal activist judges, nor did they assume that long-term directed attempts at packing the USSC with unqualified ideological operatives of the Democrat Party are on the cusp of succeeding.
Their ‘flaw’ was that they entrusted this country to honest and moral men (and women). The didn’t realize that long-term power corrupts, nor did they realize the abject sloth of citizenry devoid of any ethical value that could be created with perpetual ‘entitlement’. There were some then that knew that something in the general direction like this, but not so pervasively. They would be completely stunned if alive today.
Honestly, I don’t think there is enough of a cheat proof majority to beat them. I believe that if this country gets taken back, it will be with the very guns and ammo and magazines they are so desperately trying to take away from us.
Remember, Romney signed the Massachusetts assault weapon bill into law, just like Republican NY gov Pataki.
If Romney were prez we’d have the federal ban already.
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