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Posted inOpinion Columns

Littwin: Happy Fourth of July. Let’s just hope those fireworks you’re hearing are actually fireworks.

by Mike Littwin 3:01 AM MDT on Jul 5, 202312:18 PM MDT on Jul 4, 2023

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.

Posted inOpinion Columns

Littwin: It seemed nothing could make the cheering stop in Denver. Then, all too predictably, something did.

by Mike Littwin 3:05 AM MDT on Jun 14, 20231:22 PM MDT on Jun 13, 2023

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

by Tatiana Flowers, Ciara Zavala and Parker Yamasaki 3:28 AM MDT on Jun 5, 20238:39 PM MDT on Jun 5, 2023

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

Posted inOpinion Columns

Littwin: There’s an unexpected glimmer of hope from Tennessee’s GOP governor on gun legislation

by Mike Littwin 2:04 AM MDT on Apr 12, 20238:06 PM MDT on Apr 11, 2023

After the Nashville school shooting and the expulsion of two Black legislators, the heat is turning up. Could it possibly spread?

Posted inClub Q Shooting

Video of Club Q shooting will be kept out of public view

by The Associated Press 6:20 PM MDT on Mar 31, 20238:00 AM MDT on Apr 1, 2023

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

by The Associated Press 4:37 PM MDT on Mar 15, 20234:37 PM MDT on Mar 15, 2023

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.

Posted inOpinion Columns

Nicolais: I’m a gun owner, but it’s now time to get guns off of our streets.

by Mario Nicolais 3:03 AM MST on Mar 5, 20233:39 PM MST on Mar 3, 2023

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

Posted inOpinion Columns

Littwin: The mass shootings never seem to end, but one analysis says there may still be hope

by Mike Littwin 3:05 AM MST on Feb 15, 20233:46 PM MST on Feb 14, 2023

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

by Olivia Prentzel 5:31 PM MST on Feb 13, 20236:17 PM MST on Feb 13, 2023

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”

Posted inOpinion Columns

Littwin: Would mass killings in California affect effort to ban sale of so-called assault weapons in Colorado?

by Mike Littwin 3:05 AM MST on Jan 25, 20236:12 PM MST on Jan 24, 2023

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.

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