{"id":2442986,"date":"2019-04-15T21:44:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T03:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/applauding-sen-donovans-stand\/"},"modified":"2019-04-16T09:26:32","modified_gmt":"2019-04-16T15:26:32","slug":"applauding-sen-donovans-stand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/applauding-sen-donovans-stand\/","title":{"rendered":"Applauding Sen. Donovan\u2019s stand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">I attended the Senate\u2019s discussion and final vote on the Extreme Risk Protection Orders bill (<a id=\"N0x2cdc720N0x2c5ada0:N0x2cdc720N0x2cde000\" href=\"https:\/\/leg.colorado.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/documents\/2019A\/bills\/2019a_1177_01.pdf\">House Bill 19-1177<\/a>) where I heard some legislators\u2019 fears that the temporary removal of firearms could infringe on the rights of gun owners.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">I was impressed by Sen. Kerry Donovan\u2019s \u201cyes\u201d vote considering she herself is a gun owner. She reasoned that this law is moderate, limited and has safeguards against unfair removal of guns from citizens. This new law provides a means to protect those who feel threatened by family members who are struggling with personal issues and possess guns. A judge has to determine the credibility of the threat before removal of any firearms. Additionally, the person from whom the firearms were removed will be able to regain his\/her personal property when an intervention shows that the threat has ended.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">Sen. Donovan has experienced a backlash for her support of this bill; however, I appreciate her thoughtful consideration, and I believe the law will save lives. Thank you, Sen. Donovan, for your support of ERPO.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Name\">Larry Witlen<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Title\">Denver<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/applauding-sen-donovans-stand\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I attended the Senate\u2019s discussion and final vote on the Extreme Risk Protection Orders bill (House Bill 19-1177) where I heard some legislators\u2019 fears that the temporary removal of firearms could infringe on the rights of gun owners. I was impressed by Sen. Kerry Donovan\u2019s \u201cyes\u201d vote considering she herself is a gun owner. She [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2442986","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-16 18:27:31","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":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2442986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2442986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2442986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2442986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}