{"id":24318,"date":"2019-05-26T11:20:04","date_gmt":"2019-05-26T17:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=366417"},"modified":"2019-05-26T11:20:04","modified_gmt":"2019-05-26T17:20:04","slug":"hickenlooper-is-latest-democrat-to-make-guns-a-priority-in-2020-presidential-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/local-news\/hickenlooper-is-latest-democrat-to-make-guns-a-priority-in-2020-presidential-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Hickenlooper is latest Democrat to make guns a priority in 2020 presidential race"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"810\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/Hickenlooper_CT_11.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/Hickenlooper_CT_11.jpg 810w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/Hickenlooper_CT_11-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/05\/Hickenlooper_CT_11-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 810px) 100vw, 810px\"><figcaption><strong>Former Colorado Gov. and 2020 Presidential hopeful, John W. Hickenlooper Jr. meets with Sandy Hook families and gun-control advocates at Cyrenius H Booth Library in Newtown, Connecticut, Saturday, May 25. Hickenlooper (D-CO) is campaigning on sensible gun control policy.<\/strong><br \/><em>Monica Jorge\/ Special to the Denver Post<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>NEWTOWN, Conn \u2014 At a library two miles from Sandy Hook Elementary School, where 20 students were among those killed in one of the nation\u2019s most horrific mass shootings, John Hickenlooper sat Saturday among two dozen survivors, listening to their ideas on how to curb gun violence and pitching a few of his own.<\/p>\n<p>Universal background checks are a must, the former two-term Colorado governor said. Then, maybe, an assault weapons ban. As president, he would go community by community, House district by House district, with data to convince reluctant federal lawmakers to pass meaningful gun control legislation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery great social triumph was built on the ashes of previous failures,\u201d Hickenlooper told the crowd. \u201cWe\u2019re at a point now where we have critical mass. I really feel now we\u2019re at an inflection point, where if everyone continues their efforts in the next year or two, after 2020 we will have the momentum \u2014 it really is momentum \u2014 to address gun violence issues.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s conversations like the one Hickenlooper had Saturday on the presidential campaign trail that give gun control advocates hope that the 2020 election will be a watershed moment for an agenda that has stalled at the national level.<\/p>\n<p>To read the full story on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\">The Denver Post website<\/a>, click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2019\/05\/26\/hickenlooper-gun-control-2020-president\/\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/hickenlooper-is-latest-democrat-to-make-guns-a-priority-in-2020-presidential-race\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Colorado Gov. and 2020 Presidential hopeful, John W. Hickenlooper Jr. meets with Sandy Hook families and gun-control advocates at Cyrenius H Booth Library in Newtown, Connecticut, Saturday, May 25. Hickenlooper (D-CO) is campaigning on sensible gun control policy.Monica Jorge\/ Special to the Denver Post NEWTOWN, Conn \u2014 At a library two miles from Sandy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-24318","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 05:53:34","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIFT - The LIFT FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}