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Who is Joe Strummer?
The bill is obviously unconstitutional and has no chance of passing in a Republican Congress. So of course it’s a good idea
This raises the bar for lawful gun ownership. It doesn’t even prevent bad people from getting a gun. It doesn’t stop violence from occurring. The law makes 0 attempts to prevent stealing a gun(which is a misdemeanor in CO unless it’s worth over $1000), or to prevent crime. It just creates a financial barrier for those who want to legally own a gun. If you’re a minority or LGBTQ, lawful gun ownership isn’t just a hobby. For some of us it’s literally survival. Especially with people disappearing from our streets. Maybe you don’t look like an illegal immigrant. Maybe you look like someone whom the cops will always aid. If that’s the case, good for you. But a lot of Americans don’t have those kind of privileges. It wasn’t that long ago that black men had shoot to members of the Klan.
New ccw $50 + whatever your county charges. Total is usually over $100. That’s just to apply. You also have to pay for a class, which is usually around $200. Total for new ccw: about $300
Total for renewal: about $250
License for modern gun: unknown so far.
Regardless, this still gonna put the cost of lawful gun ownership out of reach for quite a few people. And for clarity’s sake, those people tend to not be white.
You’re not allowed to take the class unless you get the permit first. Your county sheriff can deny your permit for any reason they deem fit. And you still have to pay a nonrefundable application fee for the permit. All this law does is make lawful gun ownership more expensive than illegal gun ownership. How will that prevent crime? It sounds more like a great way to keep modern firearms out of a particular population that is historically on the lower end of socioeconomic class Kinda like how you had to pay a tax to vote. A tax that was a little too expensive for people of a certain socioeconomic class.
And for those of us who’s county sheriff won’t? The state already said they don’t know what the required training will be. This particular law has so many issues. The new permitting system (that you have go through before you’re allowed to take the class) has to be ran and funded by Colorado Parks and Wildlife, who is already severely underfunded already. The law says they don’t get any extra funding, and that the permits will pay for the system. But a Colorado Open Records Act revealed that they already predicted there will not be enough permits to take a class to fund the system. This law in particular is not about preventing gun violence and other crimes.
In CO, we already have to pay a sin tax on parts, ammo, and guns, on top of the sales tax and federal excise tax. All that tax money The sin tax money goes to a fund that can be used to fund mental health services for veterans, but most of it has to fund school security. Aka, cops.
I don’t believe at all this law is about preventing violence, when all it does is add a big financial barrier to lawful firearm ownership. If you steal a gun in Colorado, unless it’s a real fancy one, it’s just a misdemeanor.
How does requiring a permit to take a class to apply for a modern gun (who’s system must be funded by an already underfunded wildlife agency) going to stop someone from stealing a gun? How does it prevent someone from walking into a movie theater and shooting up the place? How does banning the guns least likely to be used in crime, prevent crime?
