After all, it’s the Democrat way.

As this paper is being finalized and published, Colorado’s Senate Bill 003 may have already cleared the house and is sitting on Pontius Polis’ desk for his signature. And while the bill is unconstitutional on its face, I thought I’d try to take some leftist arguments to show those know-it-alls just how much they don’t know about the tyranny they are imposing on the citizens of our state.

No one denies inalienable rights like an elected Democrat – except some elected Republicans, that is.

Let’s begin with Democrats’ favorite, absolute right every United States’ citizen – now including apparently every citizen no matter what country – must partake in (Hint: every inalienable right should be exercised freely and often, but I digress), which is the right to vote. Democrats demand everyone inside our borders has the absolute right to vote. No questions asked, especially those involving citizenship. After all, it’s in the Constitution.

But did Democrats always think this way? Consider the poll tax. Pretty much an exclusive purview of Democrat strongholds, especially in the South. I wonder who Democrats exercised this lawfare against the most?

Regardless, and outside the obvious race issue involved, Democrats required literacy tests, property restrictions, payments and more – including violence and intimidation, one of their favorites to this day – for African Americans to vote. The fact is, they made the rules to where African Americans couldn’t afford to vote, didn’t have the means to get to the polls, and because no quality education was readily available due to “Separate but Equal” laws, those same folks would never be able to pass the test.

End result? African Americans stopped voting. That is, until Democrats needed their votes.

Fast forward to today, and Democrats demand every person living in the United States is entitled to vote, proof of citizenship or not. Now, Democrats believe having to obtain an ID is either racist (it isn’t), or too expensive (they can be obtained for free), or folks just don’t have the overall means (myriad reasons) to get one. They should just be able to vote – early and often it also seems.

How does this relate to the new “Gun tax” being forced on us by Colorado Democrats after they found out the people aren’t going to stand for a ban on something that according to the Constitution of the United States “shall not be infringed?” Naturally Democrats, with their never-ending need to infringe on rights, decided to make folks pay for “safety courses,” pass tests, petition their local sheriff and obtain a special permitting before they qualify to not so freely and rarely exercise the inalienable right of keeping and bearing arms.

Sounds strangely like a poll tax to me.

How about another Democrat, favorite right. The one that is acceptable as long as Democrats agree, or it’s popular at the moment: our freedom of speech?

And while our founders truly believe everyone has the right to state what they choose to state, they also believed in having to face the consequences of one’s actions related to that speech. Some of those consequences can be criminal, but most of them are civil in nature. For instance, you can discriminate with your business or property, but it’s not a good business or personal plan, and you probably won’t be around long or will end up alone.

But Democrats, in their infinite infringement mode, actually made discrimination legal with Jim Crow laws to the point the federal government had to step in. More specifically, the Republicans had to. Kinda like Republicans did back during that little (real) insurrection back in the 1860s.

So what do we have now? Government deciding what folks can do with their own property – outside the market teaching the real lesson – with Democrats creating rights for voting blocks along with lawsuit after lawsuit. But more to the point, if possessing guns is inalienable and there are serious criminal and civil consequences for the behavior of the possessor of said arms, why do we need another law? The consequences for one inalienable right seemingly work just fine (well, they don’t to Democrats, because they want to control speech as well) but somehow don’t for another?

This is what tyranny looks like, folks. And an added note, don’t look for the courts to get this right after this tyrannical bill is passed. After all, the Supreme Court of the United States at one time had the “opinion” slavery was legal, Jim Crow was A-OK, women had no right to vote, abortion is birth control, it’s OK for corporations to take your land for their headquarters (well, that’s still in effect) along with myriad unconstitutional, tyrannical, government laws and edicts.

Well, that was until we fixed legislatures, and in time the courts, through our votes. Speaking of which, just how many people on the planet have been slaughtered via elections and the ballot box versus our inalienable right to keep and bear arms? You know the answer, and it’s by light years.

Let’s bring back one tyrannical Democrat ideal. Let’s do separate but equal again – with guns. You live in your part of the world with no guns, and we’ll live in ours possessing them uninfringed. It’ll be better over here. Perfect? No. But certainly more perfect.

Just like it says in the Constitution of the United States. Second Amendment included.

Craig Hall is owner and publisher of the Business Times. Reach him at (970) 424-5133 or publisher@thebusinesstimes.com.