Re: ā,ā June 21 news story.
On Monday the U.S. Senate voted on four gun control measures and defeated them all ā again. Outrageous! Republican senators voted for the NRA, not the people of Colorado and the country, and Sen. Cory Gardner was among them.
Polling clearly shows that Americans want these safety measures put in place. Background checks and measures to keep people with mental health issues will not destroy our Second Amendment rights.
When will the politicians listen to the country? Pay attention, people. Your will is not being done.
Ann Freeman, Boulder
The Republican-led Congress has been a total failure in judgment, resolve and leadership. If ever there was a time to vote them out of office, it is now. Given that they will not agree to pass into law even a smattering of small, reasonable gun-control legislation overwhelmingly supported by the American people (they even failed to pass a measure to keep suspected terrorists from buying guns), they have demonstrated the stupidity and cowardice that has allowed the likes of Donald Trump to rise in their ranks.
Susan Altenhofen, Fort Collins
Re: ā,ā June 21 letter to the editor.
Letter-writer Jerry Katz argues that Republicans want everyone, including mentally disturbed people, to have easy access to assault weapons. This is a tired and predictable generalization that is patently false to anyone who bothers to seek out the facts.
Hopefully Katz took the time to read your June 21 article, which made clear that both Republicans and Democrats in the Senate put forth bills to block gun sales to known or suspected terrorists. Predictably, Democrats voted down the Republican bill, and vice versa.
Iāll go out on a limb with my own generalization that no thinking person, regardless of political affiliation, wants mentally unstable people or suspected terrorists to obtain guns. In the case of Orlando, the larger question seems to be, why was Omar Mateen removed from the federal terrorism watch list in the first place? Had either the Democratic or Republican bills been in effect, they would not have blocked Mateen from purchasing his guns because he was no longer on the watch list. That¶¶Ņõap the issue that should be addressed.
Karen Libby, Denver
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