aurora theater shooting
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Boulder’s interim chief on police reform, Elijah McClain and JonBenet Ramsey
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Stephen Redfearn has been on the scene of some of Colorado’s most high-profile tragedies — Columbine, the Aurora theater shooting, the death of Elijah McClain, and the December 2021 Marshall Fire. “It seemed like if it was going to happen, I was working,” he said in an interview from his second-floor Boulder office Tuesday. As president…
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Psychiatrist: Much is still hidden in Aurora theater shooter Holmes’ mind
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A psychiatrist who spent hours talking with mass murderer James Holmes says that what led Holmes to open fire in a crowded Colorado movie theater was a one-of-a-kind vortex of his mental illness, his personality and his circumstances – and some other, unknown currents that will probably never be uncovered. “A big part of it…
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Social-media threats over ‘red flag’ gun bill prompts lawmaker to notify law enforcement
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State Rep. Cole Wist was in the Colorado House Judiciary Committee Thursday night when he left unexpectedly and was soon replaced on the panel by House Minority Leader Patrick Neville of Castle Rock. Wist, a Republican from Centennial, has weathered a barrage of negative posts and tweets all week for his sponsorship of a “red…
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Denver’s March for Our Lives: ‘No more silence, end gun violence’
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DENVER – Luna Rosenzweig was fed up. She was in an ocean of teenagers in Denver’s Civic Center Park Saturday afternoon, demanding an end to a sea of bloodshed on school campuses across the country. “We deserve not to die in our schools,” the sign-toting sophomore from Denver’s East High School said near the stage at…
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Conservative website calls out Democrat Jason Crow for law firm’s lobbying history on behalf of gun interests
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The conservative Washington Free Beacon on Monday pointed out that Democratic congressional candidate Jason Crow works at a high-powered law firm that has lobbied and done legal work for gun interests at the same time he’s attacked the “gun lobby” and been calling on U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman to return campaign contributions from the National…
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Tom Sullivan to challenge Cole Wist in House District 37 race
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Democrat Tom Sullivan of Centennial plans to take on House Assistant Minority Leader Cole Wist, R-Centennial, in November, he announced Monday. Sullivan, the only Democrat in the House District 37 race so far, ran for state Senate against incumbent Jack Tate in 2016, losing by about 7 percentage points. The south-metro Denver district includes Centennial,…
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Insights: Common ground on guns remains slippery and muddy in Colorado
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Maybe if partisans didn’t go too far. I don’t know. It confounds me why we can’t talk constructively about guns in this state, or this nation, without both sides shutting down. Indecision lives in gridlock. If one side didn’t insinuate the other doesn’t care about dead children, would that be so hard to do for…
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Legislature could hear bills based on Douglas County and Aurora theater shooters
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Rep. Cole Wist doesn’t know the answer, but he’d like the legislature to probe the questions on whether our laws go far enough when threats are made. He is concerned about whether enough was done about threats Matthew Riehl made far in advance of ambushing four Douglas County deputies, a Castle Rock police officer and…
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Mother of Aurora theater shooting victim hammers Mike Coffman for concealed carry vote in radio ad
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The mother of one of the victims of the Aurora theater shooting tears into U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman for his recent vote on gun legislation in a radio ad that began airing in the Republican’s suburban district this week. The Everytown for Gun Safety Action Fund, the political arm of one of the country’s largest gun control…
