Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Ridiculing Colorado

Right-leaning blogs are jumping all over the actions of the Colorado legislature's enactment of gun control legislation this week. Democrat Joe Salazar is being portrayed as a misogynist for his arguments against concealed carry on college campuses. Coupling newly enacted legislation with voter-approved laws concerning marijuana have produced posters like the one above.

I watched the video of Salazar's speech, and did not think his remarks were that crazy. While I do not agree with his conclusions, I thought he was making a reasonable argument, and I think the reaction on the right is unfair to him. Donald Sensing, however, recommended that Salazar consider a better idea: declare the university a rape-free zone.

One blogger opined that “a doped up, unarmed citizenry is easier to control and manipulate.”

Read more here: http://ordnancecorner.wordpress.com/2013/02/19/i-hate-epiphanies-like-this/

and here: http://blog.robballen.com/Post/11042/colorado-why-you-so-crazy

and here: http://senseofevents.blogspot.com/2013/02/university-of-colorado-to-women-lie.html

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