Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper: Put Rigorous Control On Gun Sales
Nearly six months after a mass shooting in a Colorado movie theater stirred cries for action on gun violence and mental illness, and with last month’s killings at Connecticut’s Sandy Hook Elementary School still fresh in people’s minds, Gov. John W. Hickenlooper of Colorado called Thursday for universal background checks on all gun sales in the state.
“We can learn from tragedy and make changes,” Mr. Hickenlooper, a Democrat, said in his annual State of the State address at the gold-domed Capitol here.
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David Hirsch, a.k.a. Dave "Doctor" Gonzo*, is a renegade record producer, video producer, writer, reformed corporate shill, and still-registered lobbyist for non-one-percenter performing artists and musicians. He lives in a heavily fortified compound in one of Manhattan's less trendy neighborhoods.
* Hirsch is the third person to use the pseudonym, a not-so-veiled tribute to journalist and author Hunter S. Thompson, with the permission of his predecessors Gene Gaudette of American Politics Journal (currently webmaster and chief bottlewasher at Liberaland) and Stephen Meese at Smashmouth Politics.