LET ME SEE IF I'VE GOT THIS RIGHT

Colorado, which is known far and wide for gun massacres, after the Columbine High School (1999) and the Aurora movie theater (2012) disasters, got around to passing a modest gun control law earlier this year.*  Were guns outlawed?  No.  Were semi-automatic weapons outlawed.  Well, that depends. the law states that a shotgun can't contain more than 8 shells, but the current pump semi-automatic shotgun is said to hold more than this.  So one of the disputes is that gun manufacturers probably won't build a semi-automatic shotgun that holds "only" 8 shells.  What happened to the wild west days when a double barreled shotgun was the norm?  Other guns can hold up to 15 rounds, an upgrade from the Wild West when the six gun was the standard.  What would the modern age be if we haven't learned how to build guns to kill more people quicker?

Well, it turns out that the President of the State senate and a State senator from Pueblo (locally pronounced Pee-ebb-low) who voted for the gun legislation were subjected to a recall election, the first recall election ever in the state, and lost!  Where is the high crime and misdemeanor?  The bill was passed into law and signed by the governor.  It hasn't been overturned by the state Supreme Court.  It is still the law of the land in Colorado.  Please boys and girls tell me that this is a Saturday Night Live skit and that we are about to go into a commercial.  I'm waiting for someone on the religious right to say that the flooding going on in Colorado*** is God's punishment for the recalls.  I'm waiting but not holding my breath,

Then there is Missouri where both state legislatures passed a law that would have stopped Federal enforcement of gun laws more severe than state laws.**  This obviously unconstitutional law (Or is it?  The Federal Supreme Court ruled that companies are people.  A body that can do that can do anything.) was vetoed by the Governor.  So the state House promptly voted to override the veto by a vote of 109-49, and it went to the state Senate where it lost by (Are you ready for this?) one vote (22-12).  Please folks, tell me this is a Saturday Night Live skit and that we are about to go into a commercial?

Also consider that state that recently passed a law that every citizen of the state over the age of 5 must own three guns of which one must have been bought within the last year.  Anyone caught not in compliance is subject to be thrown into jail.  Actually, this is not true -- yet.  It may be even too wild for Saturday Night Live.

Aslo see "May The Saints Preserve Us" (http://stopcontinentaldrift.blogspot.com/2013/08/may-saints-preserve-us.html)

* http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/11/politics/guns-debate/
** http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/12/us-usa-guns-missouri-idUSBRE98B03U20130912
*** http://www.weather.com/news/weather-severe/flash-flood-swamps-boulder-northern-colorado-20130912