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CO Sheriffs Hold Gun Rights Rally Before Obama's Visit

By Jeralyn, Section Colorado News
Posted on Wed Apr 03, 2013 at 02:30:47 PM EST
Tags: gun control (all tags)
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Hours before President Obama arrives to give a speech advocating gun control, more than a dozen Colorado sheriffs held a rally supporting gun rights.

"While these dedicated county sheriffs stand here publicly for the rights of their citizens, the president later today will be hiding behind the walls at the Denver Police Academy, surrounding with a handpicked audience of gun-control supporters and police employees coerced (into attending) his political rally as he declares victory for the Denver Gov. John Hickenlooper," Smith added.

Smith accused Obama and fellow Democrats of exploiting the tragedies of deadly shooting rampages at an Aurora movie theater and Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. He said a package of Colorado gun control legislation recently passed by Democratic lawmakers and signed by Hickenlooper would not have prevented those mass shootings.

Colorado just passed new gun control laws last week. Obama is trying to drum up support for changes to federal laws. I doubt he'll get it from Republicans here.

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    These Sheriff Rallies... (5.00 / 4) (#7)
    by ScottW714 on Wed Apr 03, 2013 at 04:28:40 PM EST
    ...creep me out.  They are sworn to uphold the Constitution, but out of all it, they only get worked up over 2A.  I remember when cops hated assault riffles and backed measure to keep them out of the hands of the general public.  Just seems like they are using the power of their office to promote their own personal agendas.

    It's been my experience the last people on earth who care about Constitution rights, wear badges.

    You are (5.00 / 1) (#26)
    by Chuck0 on Thu Apr 04, 2013 at 11:04:33 AM EST
    correct sir! My experience is that they look at the Constitution to be a hindrance to their jobs. Just invoke your Constitutional rights at a traffic stop and the first thing one of these badgeholders will spout is "What are you, some kind of lawyer?"


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    What is the intellectual point of this post? (5.00 / 3) (#12)
    by Dadler on Wed Apr 03, 2013 at 10:27:32 PM EST
    To evidence Colorado sheriffs engaged in this are intellectually vacant?  That's the only reason I can figure. Accusing anyone of exploiting murders to pass gun control is, in two words, phucking insane. It's like saying after a natural disaster that kills thousands that we shouldn't do everything we can to shore up our ability to cut down on the number of casualties the next storm could cause. It is the product of minds so poisoned by their own irrational fears and prejudices that self-preservation goes out the door. Not one of these guys deserves to keep their job, they aren't mentally fit for it. Period.

    Penis substitutes, that is what most guns are, and nothing more. There is no relation at all between what is written in the second amendment and what guns are in this society today, no relation at all, so saying the gun lobby is upholding the constitution is pure bullsh*t, a willful twisting of reality for very bizarre reasons. It's really a sort of phallic cult at this point, gun as the ultimate cock. Just a pitiful, inexcusable and self-destructive joke.

    To repeat: this has nothing at all to do with a well regulated militia, not a thing in the least. And all the SCOTUS rulings on this so far have been as wrong as the worst pro-slavery rulings, the logic just as erroneous and prejudiced and idiotic. Sorry, the truth hurts. Just say you love guns for the power, for the sex, for the whatever, just don't claim you're part of a well-regulated militia, because you're not.

    What about me? (none / 0) (#13)
    by Cylinder on Wed Apr 03, 2013 at 11:59:57 PM EST
    Just say you love guns for the power, for the sex, for the whatever,