aurora theater shooting

Insights: War of words on Bowe Bergdahl leaves collateral damage

Oct 18, 2017

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JOEY BUNCH

If you love America it’s easy to hate Bowe Bergdahl. He was a 23-year-old private first class in the Army when he deserted his remote infantry post in Afghanistan on June 30, 2009. His court-martial hearing is Oct. 23. Reports are that Bergdahl will plead guilty. He faces life behind bars. That should be enough to…
Bennet tells Congress to do its job to prevent gun violence

Oct 5, 2017

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JOEY BUNCH

Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet asked Congress to do its job on gun violence Thursday morning in a sometimes-somber, sometimes-impassioned speech on the Senate floor. He cited the massacre in Las Vegas Sunday night and how sadly familiar mass shootings have become on the American landscape. Bennet said it’s a shame that some, referring indirectly to…
Hickenlooper reflects on tragedy of another state’s mass shooting

Oct 3, 2017

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JOEY BUNCH

Before he spoke to reporters about a cratering special session Monday afternoon, Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper stepped back from politics, from taxing and from spending. At least 58 people were dead in Las Vegas, and more than 500 had been injured in an apparently random act by a lone gunman Sunday night. Hickenlooper has seen…
Via ColoradoPols: GOP guv’s race heats up early with joust over death penalty

May 9, 2017

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Dan Njegomir

A politician accusing another politician of being political is about as original as a DA brandishing his tough-on-crime street cred in a bid for higher office. Yet, put it all together this early in Colorado’s 2018 gubernatorial race, and you still have something noteworthy, maybe even newsworthy. At least, for political junkies. In a post this week on ColoradoPols,…
Republican Mitchell blasts fellow gubernatorial candidate Brauchler as ‘yet another lawyer’

Apr 6, 2017

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Ernest Luning

That didn’t last long. After announcing he was running for governor of Colorado early Wednesday morning, Republican George Brauchler enjoyed a honeymoon that lasted just six hours before the attacks started coming. “Attorney Brauchler is a fine fellow – a pretty good lawyer,” read a back-handed compliment from fellow Republican gubernatorial candidate Victor Mitchell. “He’s…
Republican George Brauchler declares he’s running for governor of Colorado in 2018

Apr 5, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Republican George Brauchler, the district attorney who prosecuted the Aurora theater shooter, officially launched his campaign for governor of Colorado on Wednesday. Declaring that he will be the grassroots conservative in what could be a crowded GOP primary field, Brauchler said he intends to bring leadership to a state that has languished under what’s amounted…
Remember Magpul! GOP aims to repeal ‘arbitrary’ limits on gun magazines

Feb 1, 2017

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DAN NJEGOMIR Colorado Politics

Empowered by their slim majority in the state Senate and armed with what they believe is a textbook case of overzealous gun control that backfired, Republican lawmakers are seeking to scrap Colorado’s 2013 ban on gun magazines that exceed 15 rounds. A proposal to do just that, sponsored by state Sen. Vicki Marble, R-Fort Collins, passed…
School employee gun training bill advances, draws heated opposition, fails to win over Dems

Jan 24, 2017

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John Tomasic

A state Senate bill aimed at better safeguarding students by allowing county sheriffs to train school employees in gun safety passed Tuesday afternoon on a party line vote in the Senate State Affairs committee. Senate Bill 005 now heads to the chamber floor for consideration. The bill drew some 30 witnesses to Tuesday’s hearing. Testimony…
On proposed Colorado death penalty repeal, some key questions

Jan 18, 2017

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John Tomasic

Elections The opening will be gone in a flash. Elections season is barely behind us, but the next major legislative elections will be held in 2018 – or as the new old saying goes: “Two years is the new two weeks! Put down that coffee, fool, and start knocking doors!” Guzman Guzman may be exactly…
Nicolais: Who pays when everyone loses?

Oct 4, 2016

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Mario Nicolais

The latest chapter in the Aurora theater shooting didn’t include the man who injured and murdered so many innocent people just over four years ago. Instead, it pitted those left behind against one another: the scarred victims and families of his crazed depravity against the company that owned the theater he chose for his crimes.…