It’s that time of year again for our Colorado legislature. The time of year when our elected officials really go into the fight for all of us.

And by “fight for us” they usually mean proposing hundreds upon hundreds of new pieces of legislation, many of them to fix or enhance the thousands upon thousands of pieces of bad, ineffective, freedom-killing, unconstitutional legislation passed in previous years.

But in Colorado, the legislature actually makes things worse than just passing these kinds of bills, because our legislature only passes Democrat-sponsored legislation that fits the parameters of the previous paragraph. That is unless it allows some milquetoast, Republican proposals to see the light of day and occasionally pass out of committee. But for even those select few, the only ones that get up for a vote are ones Democrats know will be defeated or fall under the umbrella of there’s no harm to the left agenda in passing them.

That’s where we are again now, in a cycle where this kind of anti-freedom governance has become accepted and the routine. If you don’t think so, ask yourself this question: Are there really 1,000 things wrong with Colorado that only more legislation can fix? After all, if there are 1,000 things wrong with Colorado, chances are it came from bad legislation.

Take, for instance, gun laws. There should be none, yet in the United States we have thousands on the books. In Colorado, there are new gun laws proposed every year. Yet in our Constitution there’s the only law we need. It’s called the Second Amendment. It reads as follows:

A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

Seems cut and dry to us. Everyone has the right to own any gun, and that right is inalienable as well. Remember, when the founders wrote this, people owned cannons and the “machine gun” had been invented.

But let’s focus on inalienable rights. These are rights that you don’t need government permission to act on at any given time and, more important, rights that should be acted on freely and often.

Yet, since before the ink dried on the parchment in 1787, politicians have been trying to erode, deny or negate these inalienable rights. They’ve just discovered a little at a time works best. But as those little victories pile up, they always go for bigger bites. It’s a politician thing.

Inevitably Democrats introduce new and imaginative gun laws to chip away at one of the rights our founders saw as so important, they listed it second. And the importance of why it was second wasn’t to preserve hunting, anticipation of an overwhelming need for self-defense or from intruders or for any other reason save one: For the people to be able to protect themselves from tyrannical government rule.

Given politicians’ penchants for tyrannical rule, no one should wonder why every year more and more gun laws are introduced, especially in Democrat-run states like Colorado. It’s about job security for the people who deem themselves the only ones fit to be your rulers. Every single attorney general should be fighting to remove “common sense gun legislation” from every state’s legislative books — not enforce or entrench them.

Last we checked, murder is against the law – whether a gun, knife, car, 2-by-4 or poison is used in committing the crime – because it violates someone else’s inalienable right to life, even if you have an F-22, tank or heavily-armed strike force at your disposal.

Which politicians actually do, all while continually violating our inalienable rights through legislation. It’s time they stopped writing laws and start rescinding bad, unconstitutional laws. Remember, almost all the thousands they pass and continue to propose are.

How about we start this session, Colorado?