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Tag: Gun Control
Littwin: Hillary Clinton blasts gun-violence, forcing the debate in 2016
It's a rare occasion when anything significant actually happens during a presidential campaign, so you might want to note the date. All it took...
Reader’s views: How many shootings will it take for us to...
Readers have been up in arms – both for and against – Colorado Independent columnist Mike Littwin's Friday story: "How many shootings will it...
Democrats’ ‘liberty-minded’ foe Sen. Laura Woods talks bills, kills and conundrums
“So we started this session with Dems saying they were going to take me out,” Republican Sen. Laura Woods said, opening a community meeting...
Walking Dead: Doomed-to-die bills and the Colorado lawmakers breathing life into...
Each session, zombie bills lurk at the Colorado Capitol. Minimum wage increases, high-capacity-magazine-ban repeals, the Parent's Bill of Rights, the gay-conversion-therapy ban – these are just...
Guns in schools for student safety
Patrick Neville was a sophomore at Columbine High School when two peers, Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, murdered 12 students and a teacher before...
#Coleg Notebook: Debating guns, schools and race
Private education tax credit launches a flurry of education amendments
For years, Senate Republicans have been trying to pass a tax credit for private K-12...
#Coleg Notebook: Still chewing on high-capacity magazines
Jane Dougherty and Tom Sullivan watched from the gallery Monday as the Senate debated and then approved a bill that would repeal the 15-round magazine ban...
#Coleg Notebook: Minimum wage, maximum disagreement
Last year, Colorado lawmakers engaged in a five-hour floor fight about raising the minimum wage. Were they considering hiking it to $15 an hour,...
#Coleg Notebook: No ‘pray the gay away,’ no teen pregnancy prevention
House bans conversion therapy
The American Psychiatric Association officially began opposing "conversion" or "reparative" therapy, the the psychological practice that tries to turn homosexuals into heterosexuals,...