{"id":2447288,"date":"2019-08-07T22:32:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-08T04:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/some-questions-for-sen-cory-gardner\/"},"modified":"2019-08-08T08:37:01","modified_gmt":"2019-08-08T14:37:01","slug":"some-questions-for-sen-cory-gardner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/some-questions-for-sen-cory-gardner\/","title":{"rendered":"Some questions for Sen. Cory Gardner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">As a lifelong gun owner, I taught my four children, their spouses, and my grandchildren to shoot. I served in the U.S. Air Force, and I was a physician in the emergency room of an Aurora hospital the December night of the Chuck E. Cheese\u2019s massacre.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">On Tuesday, <a id=\"N0x2618190N0x2614d90:N0x2618190N0x26ace90\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/local\/at-aspen-event-sen-cory-gardner-condemns-white-supremacy-in-aftermath-of-killings\/\">Sen. Cory Gardner was in Aspen<\/a> and said he has no desire to implement gun control. The Declaration of Independence says, \u201cWe hold these truths to be self evident \u2014 we are endowed by our Creator (we Christians call him God) with certain unalienable Rights \u2014 Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.\u201d The mass killings in Las Vegas, Sandy Hook, Columbine and the Aurora theater have deprived many people and families of life, liberty, and happiness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BodyText\">I ask Sen. Gardner: \u201cAre politicians stupid or gutless? Do you as a group lack wisdom to come up with some common sense restrictions or lack courage to do the right thing?\u201d Stop worrying about reelection. Even though you are the fifth largest recipient of NRA funds, they will not be able to buy you the election. The people of Colorado deserve reasonable protections. Instead of thinking the problem is about gun restrictions, think of it as human life protection laws. People in other countries watch violent video games, suffer mental illness, and have lunatic fringe. The difference is the U.S. has massive gun ownership and minimal restrictions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Name\">William Mitchell<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND Letter Title\">Aspen<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/opinion\/letters-to-the-editor\/some-questions-for-sen-cory-gardner\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a lifelong gun owner, I taught my four children, their spouses, and my grandchildren to shoot. I served in the U.S. Air Force, and I was a physician in the emergency room of an Aurora hospital the December night of the Chuck E. Cheese\u2019s massacre. On Tuesday, Sen. Cory Gardner was in Aspen and [&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-2447288","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-24 15:57:11","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\/2447288","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=2447288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2447315,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447288\/revisions\/2447315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2447288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2447288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2447288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}