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Gun self-defense in 4th grade? No, says Colorado education board
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The Colorado Board of Education voted June 13 along party lines to changes in standards for teaching health and physical education, but omitted a proposal to teach fourth graders about the benefits of guns for self-defense. The proposal was first floated last month by Republican Debora Scheffel, who represents the 4th Congressional District on the…
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"Red Flag" gun bill has bipartisan, law enforcement backing
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A bill that supporters hope will prevent the kinds of situations that led to the New Year’s Eve ambush of a Douglas County sheriff’s deputy was introduced in the House Monday. The Deputy Zackari Parrish, III Violence Prevention Act, House Bill 1436, is backed by bipartisan House leadership, as well as gun control and law…
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Colorado anti-gun violence groups say end the ‘killing fields’
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A collaboration of 14 Colorado anti-gun violence groups is calling on state and federal lawmakers to address the nation’s “killing fields” with tougher laws. “Public places, from parking lots to playing fields, have become killing fields,” said Marnie Kamensky, a board member for Colorado Ceasefire, one of the groups that make up the Colorado Coalition…
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McCarron: Douglas County School District acquires war weapons for security
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Seventeen years ago, Colorado was horrified at the massacre at Columbine High School, where 12 students and one educator were shot and killed. Families who sent their children off to study in the morning spent terrifying hours awaiting word of their survival. Twelve never heard those words of relief. A sad and misdirected marking of…
