Just when you thought Colorado couldn’t possibly need any more legislation, Gov. Jarod Polis shows up again and again on your Facebook wall signing into law another piece of recently passed legislation with smiling supporters in the background.

And Facebook users better get used to seeing these posts, because our state legislature passed 485 pieces of legislation this past session. I’d say block them, but it’s good to know the idiocy our democrat-dominated legislature passes – and just as important to know which laws Pontius Polis puts pen to paper in private.

We should be used to this by now, considering our legislature passed 527 pieces of legislation in 2024, 474 in 2023 and 503 in 2022. All of these more current years of legislative sessions show exponentially more bills passed than what occurred in the decade before.

But what else would you expect from a democrat-dominated gang in Denver after it discovered it had the power to declare who and what was essential and could shutter the entire state on a whim over a virus?

And now they celebrate their tyranny on Facebook. Well, most of it anyway.

Because the legislation signed with no fanfare is always the worst violation of our God-given rights, while the soft tyranny passed with Jared’s husband and cronies behind him shows just how badly democrats want to run every aspect of our lives in taking everything down to our fundamental, inalienable rights, while we own nothing and have no protection to possess or exercise those same fundamental, inalienable rights.

Which brings us to Fluffy and firearms.

Apparently in Colorado, you now not only have the right to own a pet (Hint: You’ve always had the right to own a pet), you now have the right to use Fido as fodder for lowering your rent.

According to Pontius Polis on HB25-1207, “We are laser-focused on saving Coloradans money on housing, and this new law ensures that families will not be forced to decide between beloved furry family members and housing. This bill strikes the right balance on making sure Colorado can continue to promote more housing now and keep families together with their pets.”

Only in Colorado are pets now leashed to affordable housing with the attitude of a Shih Tzu. Then again, perhaps I should have used the more accurate vernacular to spell out the activities of our legislature and call it what it is: An actual $#!t Zoo where the animals are in charge of the zookeepers.

And just to make sure Jared is keeping himself from being sent to the doghouse, he dragged out the old post and chain, First Gentleman Marlon Reis with this ditty, “Our pets are more than just indoor animals. They are family. This new law honors that bond by keeping Colorado families together with their beloved pets when they search for housing.”

So much for a landlord’s rights when it comes to pet deposits – whether by check or defecation – when it comes to actually doing what they feel is best for them in owning property. They now join the rest of us serfs in owning nothing and liking it.

Speaking of property we have the inalienable right to own, our “lawmakers” (can’t we give them a different title, as they’ve totally abused this one in crafting so many laws that literally every person who has ever lived, died or will live in Colorado is in some way already a criminal until they aren’t under a new law they’ll pass to protect a favored constituency, that is, until they are again) have brought back Jim Crow under another violation and infringement of the Second Amendment known as Senate Bill 25-003.

This bill is such an affront to our constitutional rights that Pontius Polis had to sign it in private. This bill violates more than just the Second Amendment as it parallels those democrat, Jim Crow, golden oldies of the past of poll taxes and tests our leftist lawmakers loved so well. Heck, this bill is so blatantly unconstitutional, even Mesa County Commissioner JJ Fletcher could be quoted in calling it out.

The new law requires residents to complete state-approved firearms training, score 90 percent on a written exam and obtain conditional approval from their sheriff’s office every five years in order to receive or renew a firearms permit. And here I thought democrats were all about the inalienable rights in our constitution.

As I recall, that same constitution says the right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. Which to democrats means one thing only: Infringe at will if it furthers the cause.

And JJ and our Mesa County Commission are right in calling out the state’s democrat majority (no Republicans voted for this) at the constitutional level, even threatening to join a lawsuit as one will surely be brought at the federal level. But in looking at how other Second Amendment lawsuits have fared over the decades, it will do little good for our rights as the infringement continues its slow creep into despotic (democrat) rule.

Truth be told, lawsuits don’t really work against democrat despotism as they’ll just come back with yet another law. The only way to show and be rid of unconstitutional legislation is to disobey the law. Period. But democrats also know Republicans will never do that.

They’re PRINOS, patriots and revolutionaries in name only.

In Christ and Freedom.

Craig Hall is owner and publisher of The Business Times. Reach him at 424-5133 or publisher@thebusinesstimes.com