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DENVER -- The battle over new firearm restrictions intensified in Colorado as hundreds of gun advocates filled the state Capitol, while the husband of former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords urged lawmakers to pass universal background checks.

A constant chorus of car honking were heard outside as lawmakers discussed seven gun bills Monday. Giffords' husband, Mark Kelly, told lawmakers that he and his wife are Second Amendment supporters, but that the right shouldn't extend to criminals and the mentally ill.

Kelly, a retired Navy captain and astronaut, has testified before Congress in support of gun control measures. Giffords, a former Democratic congresswoman from Tucson, Ariz., was wounded in a mass shooting in January 2011 while meeting with constituents.

The proposal Kelly testified for would expand background checks to include private and online sales.

Giffords, a former Democratic congresswoman from Arizona, was injured at a meet-and-greet when she was shot in the head by Jared Lee Loughner in January 2011.

Six people were killed in the shooting.

Thirteen others were wounded, including Giffords.

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    Steve wrote...
    More Brain Dead Knee Jerk reactions
    March 4, 2013 6:27 am
    by the Liberals to infringe upon the rights of American citizens. They fail to address the real issues and instead attack the 2nd amendment.
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    UZI wrote...
    It's pathetic that the media and so forth
    March 4, 2013 6:53 am
    only hear from victims of certain types of gun violence. They completly shut out the ones who would be raped/dead or otherwise if they didn't have a gun. Guns are meant to keep people on level ground. Take them from either of the sides and death and vicitimizations abound, eg, New York, LA, Chicago, Oakland, Seattle, Mexico, Europe, Korea, Italy, Africa etc. Wake up libs, you're killing people!
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    misterosr wrote...
    When you deny
    March 4, 2013 7:09 am
    people the right to take a weapon into a movie theater but don't screen anyone the result is that everyone in that theater is at the mercy of anyone who wants to commit a mass killing.
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    Anti-deceptor wrote...
    Mark Kelly is a space bubble
    March 4, 2013 7:28 am
    Mark Kelly is a scumbag seeking a payoff and 15 minutes of fame. A background check would not have stopped Loughner - and it didn't - because he passed it. His mental health was never questioned or scrutinized and the law prevented anyone from doing anything about it. And where it did, the people around him took no action.
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    azgal602 wrote...
    I WISH
    March 4, 2013 7:40 am
    this person who is playing off his wife's situation, would just go away and shut up. Does his wife have security???? Does he have security????? I don't imagine it is with a six shooter..............I am so sick of all this. Leave us alone,
    azgal602
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    Michoacan wrote...
    Measurable good will be done by
    March 4, 2013 7:52 am
    instituting universal background checks. A useful barrier that makes it that much harder for the bad guys to get their hands on the weapons they want to use against us is a good thing that reasonable people have no trouble supporting. Will it stop determined criminals from getting guns? Probably not. No law on the books will stop determined criminals. Does that mean we should have no laws? Only a gun nut would think so. But it will stop the less determined and those emotiompnally driven impulse buys that result in formerly law abiding family members from killing one another.
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    2cents wrote...
    Using valuable assets
    March 4, 2013 7:55 am
    The government owns the media. The media creates and owns celebrities. And celebrities own our increasingly malleable and wide-eyed population. So the Kelly testimony makes total sense. As usual, it will work like a charm.
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    Steve wrote...
    Colorado, the State that told women
    March 4, 2013 8:09 am
    they could not arm themselves. The State that's been taking advice from VP Biden, you know the guy who said go fire your shotgun in the air off your balcony or if you are really scared, to fire a few shotgun blasts through the door. True brain dead liberals.
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    Steve wrote...
    @ Micho
    March 4, 2013 8:11 am
    We have laws. The problem is they are not enforced. Brain dead liberals would rather create more bureaucracy instead of just simply using what they already have.
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    Michoacan wrote...
    Patchwork laws allow trafficking
    March 4, 2013 8:21 am
    in firearms to flourish. Federal laws in this area are weak to non existent. Chicago gangsters have no problem getting the guns prohibited on their streets from an Arizona gun nut trafficker. It's like having a security screening law for the law abiding while the criminal element can walk into the airport unmolested.

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