Colorado Governor Disowns High-Capacity Magazine Ban He Signed
Source: TPM
ERIC LACH – JUNE 19, 2014, 12:33 PM EDT
The most disputed gun control measure passed in response to the 2012 mass shooting in Aurora, Colorado apparently no longer has the support of the governor who signed it into law.
Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper (D) recently told a group of sheriffs that if he and his staff had known ahead of time how much "commotion" a ban on high-capacity magazines would cause, "we probably would have thought about it twice." The Democrat blamed a staff member for making a "commitment" on his behalf that all but forced him to sign the ban, and he said that he never actually expected the measure to pass the state legislature. Hickenlooper also said that after "all the kerfuffle," he went back and got "some facts that we should have had at the beginning."
Hickenlooper's comments came during his appearance Friday at the biennial meeting to the County Sheriffs of Colorado. Dozens of Colorado sheriffs joined together last year to sue Hickenlooper over the gun control measures he signed, which included banning magazines that can hold more than 15 rounds and requiring background checks for gun sales. Hickenlooper's comments to the sheriffs on Friday had already created controversy, after one sheriff posted on Facebook that the governor had "apologized to the Sheriffs for not listening to them prior to passing the new gun bills." On Wednesday, a video of a portion of Hickenlooper's remarks was uploaded to YouTube by a conservative political video website called Revealing Politics.
"On the magazine ban, you know there has not been one arrest in the entire state, on that statute," one attendee can be heard telling Hickenlooper. "So to me, that just proves what a worthless statute that really is. You know, if we have a DUI law, and you can qualify that, and quantify that, and you can [say] we've had this many people arrested throughout the state, thousands -- that law is working. When we don't have any arrests on a high capacity magazine ban, just proves to me that it was a worthless piece of legislation and it caused a lot of angst for no reason."
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Which means he is still evil.
I understand the conundrum, but people do need to remember that. If you ever meet him, say it to his face. It is unlikely to make a difference, but hey, its on record.
