What can we do about gun violence?

It’s a question I hear all across the state, often in anguish. Gun
violence kills 100 Americans each day—a death toll the Senate refuses to
address.

As a state legislator and as president of Mental Health Colorado, I stood
up to the gun lobby and earned an F in return. I wear that grade as a
badge of honor.

The NRA will tell you we can’t prevent every shooting. That’s true, but
it’s an outrageous excuse to do nothing.

[ [link removed] ]We must take action to reduce gun violence. Read our plan.
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Will any of these proposals receive a vote or even a hearing in the
Senate? Not a chance—not while Mitch McConnell runs that chamber and Cory
Gardner does his bidding.

The NRA and its allies have spent $4 million to keep Gardner in office. He
votes accordingly, embracing their far-right agenda lock, stock and
barrel.

That’s unconscionable. It’s one of a thousand reasons Cory Gardner must
go.

The good news: Gardner is on his way out. He trails even a generic
Democrat by double digits.

But it will take more than a generic Democrat to defeat the gun lobby.
Colorado’s next senator must bring the courage of our convictions to this
cause.

This is an area where John Hickenlooper and I differ. Watch this [ [link removed] ]video.

Confronted by critics at a meeting of county sheriffs, Hickenlooper blamed
his staff for committing him to sign a ban on high-capacity magazines (a
law that cost three Democratic senators their seats). Hickenlooper then
told the sheriffs he never expected the bill to pass—and suggested he
might not have signed it if he’d known it would cause so much “commotion.”

I’ll be blunt: I’ve never seen a governor
blame a staffer for forcing his hand or backpedal so quickly. It’s a
bewildering performance, and it makes you wonder whether he’d wobble even
more in Washington.

Let’s not take that risk. Let’s replace Cory Gardner with a progressive
champion.

[3]Andrew Romanoff

Andrew Romanoff
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