Author: Ken Toltz
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OPINION | It’s time for a new statewide initiative to stem school violence
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Ken Toltz I received a mass email the other day from Gov. Polis touting his accomplishments and talking about future priorities. It was less than a week after a local high school student had ended his school day heroically, but dead – yet there wasn’t a word in the governor’s message addressing school violence. Why not? It’s really…
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TOLTZ | Remembering the victims of senseless school violence
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On a very hot sunny Saturday afternoon this month, I attended yet another gun violence prevention protest rally on the west steps of Denver’s Colorado State Capitol. This one was a local version of the national March on the NRA, a student-activist led movement of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student survivors of the Valentine’s Day 2018 school shooting. MSD students…
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Implementation of Proposition 108 will be a ‘grand experiment’
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The grand experiment in Colorado elections, set for next summer, is becoming a divisive Republican Party topic. In the past, only voters registered as Democrat or Republican could legally vote in the primary, which chooses the party’s general election nominee for federal and state elected offices. Thanks to last November’s passage of Prop. 108, 2018’s…
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Toltz: Stop Buck’s ‘Guns for Felons’ legislation
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Nearly everyone would agree that convicted, violent criminals should not be able to purchase guns. Everyone, that is, except for first-term U.S. Rep. Ken Buck, who is now advancing NRA-supported legislation to reinstate a federal “guns for felons” program that has been shut down for decades. Congressman Buck, a former Weld County district attorney, recently…
