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10 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Catherine Mortensen: A... · 0 replies · +5 points

Right on, Catherine!

10 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Charlie Danaher: Barba... · 0 replies · +2 points

Charlie Danaher hit another home run. Good job, Charley.

10 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Deal reached to avoid ... · 0 replies · +27 points

The Politburo (aka the Boulder City Council) is completely out of control ... or, more accurately, they won't be satisfied until they can dictate everything about their subjects' lives.

10 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - FACT CHECK: Truth vs e... · 0 replies · 0 points

"MARCO RUBIO, on allowing abortions for rape or incest: "I have never said that. And I have never advocated that." "

Rape and incest are bad, but the new human is not responsible for those bad things, and shouldn't be killed because they happened. Abortion should be allowed only when the mother's life is truly at risk.

10 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - FACT CHECK: Truth vs e... · 0 replies · -1 points

"MARCO RUBIO, on allowing abortions for rape or incest: "I have never said that. And I have never advocated that."

Rape and incest are bad, but the new human isn't responsible for that bad behavior, and shouldn't be killed because of it. Allowing abortions when the life of the mother is truly threatened is ethical, though.

10 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Police: Suspect dead a... · 0 replies · +4 points

Sounds like "suicide by cop" to me ... mass murderers don't spend their limited time pepper spraying their victims.

10 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Boulder police: Armed ... · 8 replies · +14 points

Sheriff Pelle's predecessor, George Epp, did not initially issue many CCW permits early in his tenure ... he was a Democrat, and he, like most Democrats, tended to be against citizen right-to-carry. But Epp was broad-minded enough to take an objective look at what had happened in the states that enacted the first shall-issue concealed-carry laws, and he became a believer in the positive effects of concealed-carry by citizens with clean records. Well before Colorado enacted its own shall-issue law, Sheriff Epp began issuing CCW concealed-carry permits to ordinary citizens with clean records. (Before the state "shall-issue" law was enacted, Colorado sheriffs had the discretion to deny or to issue carry permits, according to their own inclinations ... some sheriffs issued NONE, some issued only to personal friends and the well-connected, and a few issued to anyone with a clean record.) I'm not sure that Sheriff Pelle shares Epp's converted view.

10 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Boulder police: Armed ... · 0 replies · +6 points

I think it's the total number issued, since they started issuing permits (many decades ago, I think). But there had only been a few hundred ever issued before the "shall-issue" state law was passed (somewhere around 1999, I think), which REQUIRED sheriffs to issue a permit to any citizen with a clean record. So most all of the 6000 permits have been issued within the last decade and a half. And the yearly rate of new permits has been accelerating, I believe, as more people become aware that they have that option.

10 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Boulder police: Armed ... · 1 reply · +23 points

Joe Pelle: "I think those instances are rare, though," he added. "Sometimes people do get a false sense of security."

Overall, an unusually positive article by the Boulder Camera on the properly-permitted concealed-carry of handguns. But that last quote was more typical of the Camera, though. Thankfully, "those instances" are indeed rare, but that comment was unnecessarily negative. Is a possible false sense of security reason enough to forgo having an improved chance of being able to protect oneself (and sometimes other innocent people as well)? I don't know if Sheriff Pelle was accurately quoted or not, but either way, it was unnecessarily negative.

10 years ago @ Daily Camera.com: - Boulder police: Man st... · 0 replies · +5 points

"We believe the recently estranged husband of a woman showed up there and attacked her as she was getting in her car," Johnson said. "He stabbed her in the abdomen."

I don't know what that particular church's rules are about their (properly permitted) members carrying a concealed handgun on church property, but this is a good example of why it shouldn't be prohibited.

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