Huge Surprise: 2013 Colorado gun laws have virtually no effect

[CS1983]

I was going to come here and give you a hard time and call you a quitter but I'm busy looking at real estate in the Rapid City area.

I was looking at Rapid City. Housing costs are not drastically lower and the only real IT job I could find at the time was for Strider sports (the little kid bike company). They wanted a generalist (SQL DB, Network, and Sys admin w/ experience etc.). Salary? 20-24 dollars/hr. I laughed.

[GilpinGuy]

I was going to come here and give you a hard time and call you a quitter but I'm busy looking at real estate in the Rapid City area.

I wasn't calling you out personally. It was a general statement.

It looks like we can sell our place here and buy one for cash. Pooof! No mortgage opens up lots of opportunities for us as far as home schooling the kiddos, actually persuing something we enjoy for income instead of what makes the most ching and a better quality of life in general. Seems like a no brainer to me .

[Bailey Guns]

We're planning on doing just that - voting with our feet and taking our taxes to Idaho. The outlook here is grim. I'm not going to remain here and be like the CA gun owners who say they're "fighting the good fight" against all odds. Call me defeatist if you want.

And our reason for leaving is not all about the gun laws, of course. There's a list of reasons.

Oh, yeah. I heard it all...mostly from one individual that is no longer active on the forum. What a loser for not "staying to fight". "Fight"? With what? Platitudes?

I guess if you call a far better overall financial situation, including prospects for an earlier retirement, and a generally better overall quality of life being a "loser", then we're "losers".

[Skip]

Oh, yeah. I heard it all...mostly from one individual that is no longer active on the forum. What a loser for not "staying to fight". "Fight"? With what? Platitudes?

I guess if you call a far better overall financial situation, including prospects for an earlier retirement, and a generally better overall quality of life being a "loser", then we're "losers".

Everyone has to make their own decision. Add to that the idea of fighting for people who oppose you. There's a lot to be said about living with like-minded people who understand each other.

The only time such a decision pissed me off was when a high profile gun site announced they were going to fight NY SAFE Act, took money for their fight, and then ran to Texas.

[GilpinGuy]

The anti 2A folks will look at this and say, "See! These laws aren't working! We need MORE laws!"

[MED]

The anti 2A folks will look at this and say, "See! These laws aren't working! We need MORE laws!"

Yep...definition of insanity.

[Gman]

Criminals don't obey laws. The. End.

[Zundfolge]

Criminals don't obey laws. The. End.

And as the law gets stupider, even the non-criminal stop obeying.

[Gman]

And as the law gets stupider, even the non-criminal stop obeying.

That can happen when there's selective enforcement.

[TRnCO]

I wonder how much money was spent to do this "research". I'll bet I could've come to the same conclusion in record time with some research that goes like this, "here's Chicago crime rate and here's Chicago's' gun laws, need I say more?" This concludes my research paper.