Colorado House Race May Illustrate How Gun Control Is A Poor Campaign Platform

By Tom Knighton

Democrats all over the nation are running on gun control right now. They’re arguing that we need tougher gun laws, and they’re convinced that Parkland is the incident that will make people see that they’re right.

However, a Colorado House district has had more than enough reason to vote in favor of gun control. After all, being the home of two high-profile mass shootings should do it, if anything will.

The thing is, it hasn’t.

Colorado’s most competitive congressional district holds an infamous distinction in the history of American mass shootings: It was where 12 students and a teacher were gunned down at Columbine High School in 1999 and where 12 died in the Aurora movie theater massacre in 2012.

These tragedies have produced some of the nation’s loudest calls for tighter gun control in the past two decades, yet voters in the metro Denver district have in the past five elections backed Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman, a strong supporter of Second Amendment rights and someone who has won backing from the National Rifle Association.

This juxtaposition is one that Democrats want to spotlight in their latest effort to …Read the Rest

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