Today I received this email from Tim LeVier, who is organizing the ballot initiative to repeal HB13-1224:
Please consider donating towards this effort to repeal HB1224 at www.putittothepeople.com or by check to:
Put it to the People.
1691 W Dry Creek Rd.
Littleton, CO 80120.
By way of update, I wanted to alert you that we appeared on the Mike Rosen show this AM on 850 KOA in the Denver area. If you didn't have a chance to listen (as you mentioned you are currently out of state) you can do so at your leisure here: http://www.850koa.com/cc-common/pod...dcast=Rosen03-28-13-10AM_1364491476_19733.mp3
Since I last emailed you, my position has fortified and the official ballot language is as follows:
Section 32. Gun magazines – no limitation or restriction.
No law, except a law enacted by a vote of the people, shall restrict or limit the right of the people to purchase or possess ammunition storage and feeding devices of any capacity.
As you know, the constitution and our rights in this nation can be given up by the people if there is enough support for it. With that in mind, I don't think we should run and hide from that fact, but face it head on and embrace its power. By including the exception in the language of my bill that allows a vote of the people to restrict magazine size, I prevent a judge from crafting a ruling that might say absolute bans on such laws is unacceptable - that the legislature needs the power to act and infringe the people's rights.
With my language we are plain to the court. We say we allow magazine restrictions and the remedy is to implement them is a vote of the people. It also for the same reasons should remove the legislature from gaining standing in front of a court and suing in the first place. They have a mechanism that we give them.
I hope we can still count on your support. If you do have any argument with my bill or position - I do plead with you to confront me with your points. The weakest person in the room is the one with confirmation bias. Only the individual that listens to dissent will improve his position and sound logical and rational in the end.
We've secured our Issue Committee and a web domain. Now everyone can support us financially at putittothepeople.com
Many thanks for your original email
Tim LeVier
Please consider donating towards this effort to repeal HB1224 at www.putittothepeople.com or by check to:
Put it to the People.
1691 W Dry Creek Rd.
Littleton, CO 80120.
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