Colorado’s Democratic-controlled House on Sunday passed a bill that would ban the sale and transfer of semiautomatic firearms, a major step for the legislation after roughly the same bill was swiftly killed by Democrats last year.
The bill, which passed on a 35-27 vote, is now on its way to the Democratic-led state Senate. If it passes there, it could bring Colorado in line with 10 other states — including California, New York and Illinois — that have prohibitions on semiautomatic guns.
But even in a state plagued by some of the nation’s worst mass shootings, such legislation faces headwinds.
Colorado’s political history is purple, shifting blue only recently. The bill’s chances of success in the state Senate are lower than they were in the House, where Democrats have a 46-19 majority and a bigger far-left flank. Gov. Jared Polis, also a Democrat, has indicated his wariness over such a ban.
The war? Pretty well as far as wars go. Around 20,000 Afghani security forces fatalities, 2,380 US fatalities, and 1,200 other coalition fatalities compared to like 72,000 Taliban and al-Queda fatalities. The Taliban was toppled, and their remnants along with al-Queda were hiding in the mountains and in Pakistan.
The Taliban was also a proper government prior to the invasion, with a standing army and access to munitions beyond small-arms. Even with RPG’s and Igla’s an Apache coming to fuck your shit is terrifying, without them you’ll probably die more comfortably by just pulling the Orc move of jamming your rifle barrel under your chin, waving bye to the drone circling you, and blowing off the top of your skull.
Now if you want to talk about the nation-building aspect of Afghanistan and how that completely disintegrated that’s something else entirely, because yeah that didn’t go too great.