Mark Kelly Testifying Tomorrow For Gun Safety Bills

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by: Colorado Pols

Former space shuttle Commander Mark Kelly, the husband of former Arizona Congresswoman Gabby Giffords, is heading to Colorado Monday to testify in support of one of seven gun control bills being heard by state lawmakers, FOX31 Denver is first to report.

Kelly, who testified before Congress earlier this year in support of gun control measures, will testify Monday in support of House Bill 1229, which would mandate that all private gun sales and transfers are subject to background checks.

He and Giffords, who was shot in the head outside a Tucson grocery store more than two years ago, have started their own gun control advocacy group, “Americans for Responsible Solutions”, earlier this year to “combat the influence of the gun lobby.”

At last night's Jefferson-Jackson dinner for Democrats, Senate President John Morse urged attendees to turn out for the hearings beginning at 10:30AM tomorrow in both the Old Supreme Court chambers and capitol Room 356. The purpose being, according to the Denver Post's Lynn Bartels, to "counteract the NRA busloads."

Perhaps that means some of you, conscience and schedule permitting.

9 thoughts on “Mark Kelly Testifying Tomorrow For Gun Safety Bills”

JeffcoBlue says:

March 3, 2013 at 2:12 pm

God, what I wouldn't give to see Mark Kelly square off against Greg Brophy. What a pipsqueak day of reckoning that would be.

I'll be there!

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DavidThi808 says:

March 3, 2013 at 3:19 pm

Interesting article on the state of gun safety statistics – Science and gun violence: why is the research so weak?

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Gray in Mountains says:

March 3, 2013 at 3:45 pm

I can't wait to hear all the goofs talking about how we shouldn't pay any attention to the out of towner

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1. Aristotle says:
  
  March 4, 2013 at 4:26 pm
  
  See ArapaGOrP's comment below? Prophecy fulfilled.
  
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  1. Gray in Mountains says:
    
    March 4, 2013 at 4:50 pm
    
    rather comical. expect the Rs to run a bill, sounds like one for Brophy or Wright, to forbid testimony from "outsiders"
    
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ArapaGOP says:

March 4, 2013 at 3:11 pm

Nonplussed. The honking from genuine Coloradans drowned him out.

He's a great astronaut but I don't go to astronauts for opinions about guns.

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1. Aristotle says:
  
  March 4, 2013 at 4:25 pm
  
  How about victims of gun violence? Do their opinions count?
  
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  1. Gray in Mountains says:
    
    March 4, 2013 at 4:43 pm
    
    an astronaut whose wife was almost killed, her body forever damaged by a dude with a gun AND mass murder magazines.
    
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2. Aristotle says:
  
  March 4, 2013 at 5:27 pm
  
  Did you check the driver's licenses of all the honkers? I bet some weren't from Colorado. Did anyone ask why they weren't working?
  
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