SB 200 which was passed here in Colorado is really bad legislation. I base this upon basic morality, and the violent response of so many people that called into the Caplis and Silverman Shoh on KHOW and The Gunny Bob Show on KOA radio programs.
Stiff right Jab did an excellent piece about this, and I certainly cannot improve on it, hence the link.
In any case, I contacted my State Representative Gwyn Green’s office, about this. The conversation with a staffer went something like this.
“I don’t believe that you folks really looked at thisin it’s entirety.” How so? The person responded. I said that they had not properly calculated the cost of this new statuate. The person replied that, indeed they had, fully. To which I said, but you haven’t addressed all the new prison space and associated costs involved. They asked what on earth I was talking about. I responded that from listening to all the talk shows that there very well might be a flurry of homocides and major assaults on the people that decide to test the waters by going into school restrooms by family members that just plain will not put up with that sort of behavior.
They hung up the phone …
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