Self-defense on hold: House GOP announces letter to AG Bondi at capitol press conference
By Jen Schumann | Contributing Writer, Rocky Mountain Voice
A young woman in her twenties stood outside Rep. Scott Bottoms’ church recently and asked him for help—she needed a firearm. Not for sport. Not to make a point. For protection.
“She was worried, she was frightened… She had no way to protect herself,” Bottoms said during a House Republican press conference Wednesday. “She has to wait three days. She can't even get her own firearm to protect herself.”
That delay, he argued, could be the difference between safety and tragedy.
It’s the kind of real-life scenario House Republicans say they had in mind when they gathered on the west steps of the Colorado State Capitol the morning of April 16 to speak out against SB25-003.
At the press conference, lawmakers said they...