As I write this, there have been 11 mass shootings over the extended holiday weekend. That can’t be what we mean by American exceptionalism.
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Littwin: It seemed nothing could make the cheering stop in Denver. Then, all too predictably, something did.
During the celebration of the Nuggets’ first championship, a mass shooting injured 10 people. Is anyone surprised?
Posted inEquity
Protesters hold sit-in outside Colorado Capitol to demand that Jared Polis ban guns
People from across the U.S. and from other countries are lining the statehouse lawn hoping their peaceful act of civil disobedience leads to radical change in gun policies
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Littwin: There’s an unexpected glimmer of hope from Tennessee’s GOP governor on gun legislation
After the Nashville school shooting and the expulsion of two Black legislators, the heat is turning up. Could it possibly spread?
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Video of Club Q shooting will be kept out of public view
COLORADO SPRINGS — Surveillance footage capturing the attack at a gay nightclub that left five people dead and 17 others wounded will not be made public until it is presented at trial, a judge ruled Friday. Prosecutors and defense attorneys had argued that releasing the gruesome video could make it difficult to seat an impartial […]
Posted inCrime and Courts
Son of victim in Boulder grocery store mass shooting sues gun-maker Ruger
Nathaniel Getz, whose mother, Suzanne Fountain, was killed at the Boulder King Soopers, filed the lawsuit. He is the first relative of the 10 victims to do so.
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Nicolais: I’m a gun owner, but it’s now time to get guns off of our streets.
After their East High School classmate Luis Garcia died from a gunshot wound suffered two weeks ago, students directed their pain and anger at the Capitol to demand action
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Littwin: The mass shootings never seem to end, but one analysis says there may still be hope
A Washington Post story five years ago showed 187,000 kids had been affected by school shootings since Columbine. Now it’s 338,000.
Posted inCrime and Courts
Club Q to reopen in fall with enhanced security, tribute to shooting victims
The redesigned LGBTQ club in Colorado Springs will have enhanced security features that its owners hope can become “a model for countless queer spaces across the country”
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Littwin: Would mass killings in California affect effort to ban sale of so-called assault weapons in Colorado?
Columnist Mike Littwin notes that the latest draft of a bill to ban purchase of so-called assault weapons in Colorado wouldn’t ban possession. But it would be a starting place.