Mary Katherine Ham:
The Colorado governor said this on CBS’ “Face the Nation,” Sunday but it’s worth flagging a) because the utterly predictable gun-control discussion is ongoing and Hick is another guy with a less-than-utterly-predictable position and b) what are the chances you watched “Face the Nation?”
And, because Hickenlooper’s a Democrat in Colorado, his absolute moral authority shield is engaged:
“This person, if there were no assault weapons available, if there were no this or no that, this guy’s going to find something, right? He’s going to know how to create a bomb. Who knows where his mind would have gone. Clearly a very intelligent individual however twisted,” Hickenlooper said during an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
The governor, who appeared on at least three Sunday morning talk shows, said his administration “will try to create some checks and balances on these things, but it is an act of evil.”
“If it was not one weapon, it would have been another, and he was diabolical,” he said.
Hooray for common sense, says the WSJ.
I am interested to hear how all these new gun-control proposals are going to stop a Ph.D. student in neuroscience from finding or making whatever he desires to kill a large number of people. I’d bet he’s devious enough to even find a gun in the famously gun-free paradise that is Chicago if he really wanted one.
Those harkening back to the good ol’ days of the Federal Assault Weapons Ban must wrestle with the fact that the law wouldn’t have likely changed Holmes’ artillery much.
Hick is great. Everyone likes, and votes, for him around here. I know a few card-carrying members of the GOP that voted him into the Governor’s office.
He’s upfront, honest, and God-forbid, seems genuinely motivated by the idea of representing the state’s residents. If he runs for the Oval Office some day, Colorado will not be considered a “swing state.”