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In reply to the discussion: When You Cannot Pass Even Reasonable Guns Laws In The Light Of Massacres You Are Beyond Hope. [View all]earthside
(6,960 posts)And there was intra-party splits and feuding in Giron's district.
The gun nuts and Repuglicans cherry-picked where they made the recall efforts -- that's simple politics.
The magazine limit and background checks are popular among the majority of Colorado citizens.
Morse and Giron were not 'wrong' on these gun laws ... they expected (as they should) that they would be challenged in the next election (except Morse was term limited anyway).
But the gun nuts just cannot accept the regular functioning of representative democracy, they are extreme and reactionary and have to bully their way around. In these two cases they succeeded (they failed in two other legisaltive districts to even get the required number of signatures to force a recall).
But they won't succeed next year. Democrats who support reasonable gun regulations are safe here in Colorado. All the gun radicals have done with these recalls is demonstrate to the rest of us just how reactionary and radical they really are.
And, by the way, nothing has changed here, Democrats still control both chambers of the legislature.