Therefore, when a Democrat in the General Assembly asserts that HB 19-1177 is “constitutional”, he is either lying intentionally or inadvertently misleading through ignorance. Either way, simply asserting a thing to be true doesn’t make it so. An “unconstitutional” law is also an “illegal” law, since the determination of legality derives from the constitution.
This illegal bill is being heard before the Colorado House Judiciary Committee at 1:30 pm on Thursday, February 21 in the Old State Library room. Because the notice was less than a week, I know many gun rights advocates will not be able to take off time from work to travel to the capitol and sit around for hours waiting to testify for three minutes. However, you can and should let the legislators on the Judiciary Committee know of your strong opposition. Their email addresses are provided below. Talk to your friends and let your thoughts be known on social media – Twitter in the #copolitics and #coleg hashtags, on Facebook and via letters to editors and journalists.
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