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On March 4, despite hundreds of Coloradans flooding the State Capitol in  Denver and honking horns on the streets that encircle the building all day long,  and the presence of 25 county sheriffs opposed to seven Democratic  gun-control proposals, the measures all passed the Colorado House along  party-line votes. Democrats currently control both houses of the Colorado  legislature, as well as the governor’s office. Legislators’ testimony during the  hearings was replete with smug, ignorant sanctimony, blithering idiocy and  outright lies.

The Democrat members of the Colorado legislature have shown themselves to  be enemies of the Constitution of the United States of America and the people of  the state of Colorado. What occurred in Colorado on that day was nothing  short of a disgusting outrage and a chilling precursor of things to come.

Two factors regarding this development are particularly distressing. The  first is the revelation that the Colorado legislature is lousy with knee-jerk  dullards who operate at the level of those who suspend grade-school children  from school for possessing napkins and toaster pastries that bear rudimentary  resemblance to firearms. As has become clear in recent weeks, many are  themselves from the ranks of low-information voters with scant knowledge of the  Constitution, or progressive zealots who seek to abolish same.

The second factor is the influence of President Barack Hussein Obama writ  large on the whole affair. As we know, Vice President Biden personally leaned on  Colorado legislators last month in an effort to tip the national conversation on  gun rights in progressives’ favor. Thus, with sanction from the White House  itself, these legislators forged ahead with what they wanted – not what was  legal or popular – in typical autocratic progressive fashion.

Colorado voters are now anxiously wondering what the position of their chief  public executive, John Hickenlooper, will be. Considering the Democratic  governor once called Obama a “rock star,” I wouldn’t hold out too much hope for  his doing the right thing.

When I escaped New York for Colorado years ago, I certainly did not expect it  to become ground zero for the assault on the Second Amendment, and the idea that  the state in which I live is essentially being ruled from afar by a radical  Marxist is quite worrisome. If the people of Colorado, a state with a tradition  of rugged individualism and liberty, do not rebound fiercely as a result of this  obscenity, then the state will indeed become California (a long-held fear of  many natives and transplants alike) in very short order.

The stark difference between what Colorado was and what it is rapidly  becoming is easier to see here than other states, since Colorado’s heritage and  history more resemble that of Texas than New York or California. Given that, I  pray it has become clear to Coloradans that they must now undertake a wholesale  eradication of progressive policy from the governance of their state.

It is no secret among conservatives that for the last several years, Colorado  has been a chief target of one high-profile progressive billionaire and former  Nazi collaborator (George Soros) through his various radical astroturf political  organizations. With this aid, and through the aforementioned methods, the White  House effectively subverted Colorado’s legislative processes and is ruling by  proxy, while maintaining the illusion of legitimate due process.

What concerns me most about the developments in Colorado and other states  vis-à-vis firearms laws is that this progression has brought us that much closer  to law-enforcement officials showing up at citizens’ homes and demanding their  guns. Raised in the same environment as the rest of us, many peace officers  won’t realize that they are operating well outside of the law.

And that’s when things will have the potential to get really ugly.

On Jan. 6, 2013, Nathan Haddad, a former Army staff sergeant and decorated  combat veteran, was selling some gun magazines when he was arrested for  violating a new New York state law prohibiting possession of magazines that hold  more than 10 rounds. Haddad was charged with five felonies.

The officers who arrested Haddad, and those prosecuting him have shown  themselves to be enemies of the Constitution and the people of the United States  of America. Officials who enforce immoral laws are no better than Hitler’s  Gestapo. Where, pray tell, do they plan to draw the line at what unlawful  decrees they will and will not uphold?

Very soon, we are likely to hear of an individual who, upon being contacted  by law enforcement, winds up in a firefight with them over their enforcement of  newly implemented gun-control measures. Law-enforcement officers may be wounded  or killed, as might our citizen. If arrested, he or she will be a political  prisoner. This will be the final nail in the coffin for legal firearms  ownership in America, as the government and the press will capitalize upon this  event (and perhaps similar others) to prove once and for all that all gun  owners are potential psycho cop killers.

Why does the government (and the Obama administration in particular) want  Americans’ firearms? Because they know that they are already guilty of  prosecutable crimes and are planning many more. They know that they represent  precisely why America’s founders put the Second Amendment in the Constitution in  the first place, and that they already merit being removed by force of arms.  They simply want to disarm Americans before a preponderance of us come to that  realization and respond accordingly.