Gun bills target civilians just like you and me

The Colorado Democrats do not trust Colorado citizens and want to disarm them. Their proposed assault weapons ban clearly states “Assault weapons in civilian hands endanger Colorado’s streets, stores, restaurants, places of worship, music venues, schools, movie theaters, and communities at large.” They’re not after gang members or criminals, but civilians like you and me.

The preamble is a laundry list of dubious and unreferenced statistics implying assault weapons are responsible for most mass shootings. Conversely, the FBI statistics for 2019 (last year reported) show 364 murders out of 13,927 (about 2.8%) were committed using rifles of all types including “assault” rifles. They are not the weapon of choice as Democrats say.

They know this is unconstitutional. SCOTUS has already ruled in the Heller and the Bruen cases and found that semi-automatic rifles such as the AR-15 are of common usage and therefore constitutional. They probably know this will grind through the court system all the way to SCOTUS and will eventually fail, thereby wasting millions of taxpayer dollars in an effort to disarm we the civilians and eliminate our constitutional rights.

Gov. Jared Polis greatly exacerbated this controversy by signing SB21-256, which allows local municipalities to make up their own gun laws. Boulder, Superior, Louisville and Lafayette were quick to enact new gun laws, thereby making Colorado a patchwork of confusing and conflicting laws.

In his book “Gun Control in the Third Reich,” Stephen P. Halbrook outlines how the Nazi regime enacted gun control. They started with the registration of guns and banning certain types of guns, like Boulder’s recent assault weapon ban and registration laws.

Then they used registration lists to find and confiscate guns, eventually leading to arrests, imprisonment and execution. But this is America. I’m sure it can’t happen here, can it?