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Radically pro-abortion? Check. An extremist on the LGBT issues, especially body mutilations for kids? Check. A long series of blatantly anti-Christian attacks on people of faith? Check, and check again. Specifically trying to hurt parents? Check. Orchestrated attacks on President Donald Trump. Again, check.
So what else is needed in a state that has gone so far left that some of its agenda points are being shunned even by California?
Of course, gun control.
That's exactly where Colorado has gone with a new law that now is being condemned as a "grotesque misuse of government power."
And, a report from the Rocky Mountain Voice explained officials in one Colorado county now have asked the Department of Justice to move against the latest leftism.
The state already has called abortion a "constitutional" right. It pushes for the LGBT agenda to the point of repeatedly losing at the Supreme Court. Its lawmakers considered a plan that could have been used to eliminate parental rights if they "deadnamed" a child. And the all-Democrat state Supreme Court tried to skew the 2024 presidential election with its attempt to remove Trump from the ballot.
The gun issue is a reach as far as any.
The report said, "Would you need a perfect GPA to speak your mind or worship freely? Mesa County officials say Colorado's new gun law is treating the Second Amendment that way – and they've asked the U.S. Department of Justice to intervene."
Commissioners in a three-page latter have urged the feds to review Senate Bill 25-003, calling it a "grotesque misuse of government power."
That's because it "effectively imposes a discriminatory test on anyone wishing to lawfully own or carry a firearm.
The law, which takes effect in August 2026, requires residents to complete state-approved firearms training, score 90% on a written exam and obtain conditional approval from their sheriff's office every five years in order to receive or renew a permit."
Commissioner JJ Fletcher explained to the Rocky Mountain Voice the county was left with no choice, when leftists in Denver ignored public concern.
"I feel strongly… that our constitutional rights as citizens have been violated by SB3," Fletcher said. "It violates our residents' civil rights. We want to have the ability to exercise our Second Amendment rights."
The commissioners pointed out things the leftists in the legislature apparently could not see: "As a nation, we do not require citizens to pass an exam to speak freely under the First Amendment, or to vote under the Fourteenth or Fifteenth Amendments. Yet, in Democrat-controlled Colorado, the right to keep and bear arms is being conditioned upon financial means, test-taking proficiency, and the ability to navigate government bureaucracy."
In fact, the letter charges the Democrat majority in Colorado's government with having re-enacted earlier American history, when the nation used "poll taxes, literacy tests, and voter intimidation imposed by Democrats in the post-CIvIl War South."
"Today, state policymakers have enacted a disturbingly similar framework – not to block voting, but to obstruct the constitutional right to self-defense," the commissioners wrote.
Further, the commissioners warn the state likely is in violation of "District of Columbia v. Heller, McDonald v. City of Chicago, and New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen."
"Those all affirm that the right to bear arms is individual and that states cannot impose excessive or arbitrary restrictions," the letter explained.
