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Colorado Supreme Court to review constitutionality of mental health law, ‘straw purchases’ of guns
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The Colorado Supreme Court has agreed to hear two appeals challenging the constitutionality of state law as being either vague or in violation of U.S. Supreme Court precedent. The cases have come to the state’s highest court by way of the Court of Appeals, where a panel of three appellate judges declined to label as…
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COVER STORY | Kids’ mental health challenged in a culture of guns
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Dec. 14 marks nine years since Jane Dougherty told her sister hello and goodbye, but for a disturbed young man’s access to guns in Newtown, Connecticut, a New England village that was decked out for a Christmas, that was emotionally obliterating. Her older sister, Mary Sherlach, a school psychologist, was in the principal’s office that…
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Columbine families gather to tell stories nearly 20 years on (GALLERY)
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JEFFERSON COUNTY — Families of the Columbine High School shooting victims gathered at the school on Saturday to tell their stories nearly 20 years after the tragedy, and they spoke of forgiveness, inclusion and healing, and the balm that sometimes only silence can bring. It was on April 20, 1999, that two Columbine students gunned…
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BIDLACK | For a nation nearly numbed by gun violence — a novel proposal
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I hate the fact that I am less horrified than I was in April of 1999. On the 19thof that month, I spent the evening watching a Rockies game with fellow members of my academic department at the Air Force Academy. It was our yearly outing, and I was the guy in charge of setting…
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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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Rep. Dave Williams heads to the White House to talk immigration
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State Rep. Dave Williams, R-Colorado Springs, is scheduled to be at the White House Thursday to talk immigration with President Trump’s Domestic Policy Council. Williams has been a proponent of ending so-called sanctuary cities in Colorado, sponsoring unsuccessful legislation last year to allow public officials to be arrested if local policies on undocumented immigrants permit…
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Bad week for guns on the Great Plains?
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You would think every week of the next couple years would by a good week for the gun-rights lobby. Washington is being run by hardline pro-gun officials. Even before Trump and the Republican Congress, the Obama-Biden efforts in Washington to pass any gun-control laws at all met stiff resistance and failed. So what’s happening this…
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School employee gun training bill advances, draws heated opposition, fails to win over Dems
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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…
