en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/961481 Comments by Mike_Fontenot http://www.dailycamera.com/letters/ci_28878686/catherine-mortensen-americans-dont-support-gun-control#IDComment996781376 Right on, Catherine! Sat, 26 Sep 2015 13:14:54 +0000 http://www.dailycamera.com/letters/ci_28878686/catherine-mortensen-americans-dont-support-gun-control#IDComment996781376 http://www.dailycamera.com/guest-opinions/ci_28759268/charlie-danaher-barbarism-started-long-before-body-parts#IDComment994319572 Charlie Danaher hit another home run. Good job, Charley. Wed, 9 Sep 2015 14:49:00 +0000 http://www.dailycamera.com/guest-opinions/ci_28759268/charlie-danaher-barbarism-started-long-before-body-parts#IDComment994319572 http://www.dailycamera.com/news/boulder/ci_28742784/deal-reached-avoid-forced-landmark-status-boulder-home#IDComment993267892 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. Wed, 2 Sep 2015 15:16:34 +0000 http://www.dailycamera.com/news/boulder/ci_28742784/deal-reached-avoid-forced-landmark-status-boulder-home#IDComment993267892 http://www.dailycamera.com/top-stories/ci_28600527/fact-check-gop-candidates-veer-from-truth-1st#IDComment989323501 "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. Fri, 7 Aug 2015 16:47:54 +0000 http://www.dailycamera.com/top-stories/ci_28600527/fact-check-gop-candidates-veer-from-truth-1st#IDComment989323501 http://www.dailycamera.com/top-stories/ci_28600527/fact-check-gop-candidates-veer-from-truth-1st#IDComment989322015 "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. Fri, 7 Aug 2015 16:35:34 +0000 http://www.dailycamera.com/top-stories/ci_28600527/fact-check-gop-candidates-veer-from-truth-1st#IDComment989322015 http://www.dailycamera.com/top-stories/ci_28589951/official-report-shots-fired-at-nashville-area-theater#IDComment989066893 Sounds like "suicide by cop" to me ... mass murderers don't spend their limited time pepper spraying their victims. Wed, 5 Aug 2015 21:41:40 +0000 http://www.dailycamera.com/top-stories/ci_28589951/official-report-shots-fired-at-nashville-area-theater#IDComment989066893 http://www.dailycamera.com/news/boulder/ci_28569467/boulder-police-armed-witness-rescued-woman-from-attempted#IDComment988425810 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. Sat, 1 Aug 2015 19:22:02 +0000 http://www.dailycamera.com/news/boulder/ci_28569467/boulder-police-armed-witness-rescued-woman-from-attempted#IDComment988425810 http://www.dailycamera.com/news/boulder/ci_28569467/boulder-police-armed-witness-rescued-woman-from-attempted#IDComment988416858 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. Sat, 1 Aug 2015 17:35:40 +0000 http://www.dailycamera.com/news/boulder/ci_28569467/boulder-police-armed-witness-rescued-woman-from-attempted#IDComment988416858 http://www.dailycamera.com/news/boulder/ci_28569467/boulder-police-armed-witness-rescued-woman-from-attempted#IDComment988383960 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. Sat, 1 Aug 2015 11:18:46 +0000 http://www.dailycamera.com/news/boulder/ci_28569467/boulder-police-armed-witness-rescued-woman-from-attempted#IDComment988383960 http://www.dailycamera.com/news/boulder/ci_28563564/boulder-police-man-stabs-estranged-wife-church-parking#IDComment988232766 "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. Fri, 31 Jul 2015 14:27:08 +0000 http://www.dailycamera.com/news/boulder/ci_28563564/boulder-police-man-stabs-estranged-wife-church-parking#IDComment988232766 http://www.dailycamera.com/letters/ci_28422286/quentin-mckenna-eisenhower-warned-us#IDComment982615238 "The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present — and is gravely to be regarded." Right on! Great post, Quentin. Sat, 4 Jul 2015 15:32:32 +0000 http://www.dailycamera.com/letters/ci_28422286/quentin-mckenna-eisenhower-warned-us#IDComment982615238 http://www.dailycamera.com/news/boulder/ci_28424631/boulder-county-seeks-comments-potential-target-shooting-areas#IDComment982441499 "Boulder County has identified five potential sites for possible future designation as officially sanctioned recreational target shooting areas ...". They're all too far from Boulder. The best site is the (now) prohibited one in Left Hand Canyon. Until prohibited, it was a shooting area for probably at least 100 years. Fri, 3 Jul 2015 19:04:34 +0000 http://www.dailycamera.com/news/boulder/ci_28424631/boulder-county-seeks-comments-potential-target-shooting-areas#IDComment982441499 http://www.dailycamera.com/boulder-county-news/ci_28396069/boulder-sheriff-man-who-sparked-search-near-75th#IDComment981601373 "Possession of a weapon by a previous offender? That is a new one to me." I think anyone who has been convicted of a felony is prohibited from owning, or having any access to, a firearm. Mon, 29 Jun 2015 15:28:19 +0000 http://www.dailycamera.com/boulder-county-news/ci_28396069/boulder-sheriff-man-who-sparked-search-near-75th#IDComment981601373 http://www.dailycamera.com/ci_28344067#IDComment979386549 And churches don't need to formally appoint certain parishioners to be armed ... all they have to do is keep silent on the issue, so that any of their parishioners who have concealed-carry permits can be armed if they so choose. And if that particular church disallows properly-permitted concealed-carry, parishioners who want to be able to protect themselves can choose to attend a different church that respects their right to self defense. But I think the situation in South Carolina might be worse: their concealed-carry law might specifically prohibit concealed-carry in churches. If so, shame on South Carolina. Fri, 19 Jun 2015 16:57:31 +0000 http://www.dailycamera.com/ci_28344067#IDComment979386549 http://www.dailycamera.com/ci_28344067#IDComment979365943 Too bad that none of the innocent people in that church were armed. Fri, 19 Jun 2015 14:42:34 +0000 http://www.dailycamera.com/ci_28344067#IDComment979365943 http://www.dailycamera.com/ci_28335991/9-fatally-shot-at-historic-black-church-charleston#IDComment979228605 "If I could arm every African-American, and teach them to defend themselves, I would." Right now, they are free to arm themselves, and to get instruction in how to defend themselves with a firearm. But Obama, and many liberals, would like to prevent them from being able to do that. Thu, 18 Jun 2015 22:45:54 +0000 http://www.dailycamera.com/ci_28335991/9-fatally-shot-at-historic-black-church-charleston#IDComment979228605 http://www.dailycamera.com/letters/ci_28261587/thomas-e-boyd-abortion-basic-matter-right-and#IDComment976842779 "Are you claiming to be a non-believer?" I'm an atheist ... religion has nothing to do with my position on abortion. I don't believe that an unfertilized human egg is a brand-new human ... it's just one of the woman's cells (although it IS an unusual one of her cells ... it only has one of each pair of her chromosomes). But a fertilized human egg cell (which has a complete set of chromosomes, half from the father, and half from the mother) IS a brand-new human being, with a combination of chromosomes that have never existed before. The fact that a fertilized human egg doesn't yet do a lot of heavy thinking is irrelevant ... we don't kill older humans just because they happen to be unconscious at the moment. Mon, 8 Jun 2015 16:41:15 +0000 http://www.dailycamera.com/letters/ci_28261587/thomas-e-boyd-abortion-basic-matter-right-and#IDComment976842779 http://www.dailycamera.com/letters/ci_28261587/thomas-e-boyd-abortion-basic-matter-right-and#IDComment976840285 "You don't have a uterus so you don't get to vote." I could live with that. I'd LIKE to think that, if I DID have a uterus, that it wouldn't change my apposition to abortion ... but we'll never know, will we. Mon, 8 Jun 2015 16:21:12 +0000 http://www.dailycamera.com/letters/ci_28261587/thomas-e-boyd-abortion-basic-matter-right-and#IDComment976840285 http://www.dailycamera.com/letters/ci_28261587/thomas-e-boyd-abortion-basic-matter-right-and#IDComment976834909 "Those who are opposed to abortion for religious reasons should consider that just as in the case of adultery, those religions usually indicate they feel consequences will be imposed by their god." Not everyone who is against abortion does so for religious reasons. My reason is that I believe that a fertilized human egg IS a brand-new human ... it's not just some kind of expendable wart growing inside the mother. The DNA in that fertilized egg has never existed before. And in our existing laws, I believe the right to life is being ignored for that new human, through no fault of its own. Mon, 8 Jun 2015 15:38:16 +0000 http://www.dailycamera.com/letters/ci_28261587/thomas-e-boyd-abortion-basic-matter-right-and#IDComment976834909 http://www.dailycamera.com/boulder-county-news/ci_28248557/officials-elk-shot-illegally-rocky-mountain-national-park#IDComment976072894 "Who would think that was ok and a good idea??" Maybe someone who was charged (unprovoked) by a rogue elk? That would be rare, but not impossible. Thu, 4 Jun 2015 19:57:03 +0000 http://www.dailycamera.com/boulder-county-news/ci_28248557/officials-elk-shot-illegally-rocky-mountain-national-park#IDComment976072894