One Colorado Man’s Crusade Against Gun Violence
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🗓️ 25 March 2021
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Colorado Rep. Tom Sullivan counts the number of Fridays since his son was killed in the Aurora theater shooting in 2012. The latest mass shooting in Boulder, which left 10 people dead, was yet another reason Sullivan says he’s continuing his quest to curb gun violence in the state.
Guest: Colorado State Rep. Tom Sullivan.
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| 0:00.0 | The house will come to order. |
| 0:07.0 | How do you respond when a tragedy seems to repeat itself over and over again? |
| 0:15.0 | Please join me in the Pledge of Allegiance. |
| 0:18.0 | Tuesday morning, the day after a man walked into a grocery store in Boulder and killed 10 people, |
| 0:24.9 | the General Assembly in Colorado had to figure that out. |
| 0:28.5 | Representative Houdon. |
| 0:30.6 | The representatives from Boulder were some of the first to speak. |
| 0:34.8 | Members yesterday. |
| 0:38.7 | My beloved Boulder, my trauma done in a way that this has never occurred in our community. |
| 0:49.9 | This session got surprisingly raw. |
| 0:53.4 | Politicians broke down as they spoke. |
| 0:55.8 | When it got to be too much for one of them, a pair of women appeared at the representative's side, propping her up. |
| 1:02.5 | We are a peaceful community. |
| 1:06.5 | Outside of shenanigans from CU students sometimes. |
| 1:11.4 | And I honestly, right? |
| 1:14.9 | And King Super just where those students shop. |
| 1:19.0 | One representative, it sounded like she just learned that she knew one of the victims. |
| 1:24.7 | Yeah, the names had just come out. |
| 1:27.2 | They had a press conference at 8.30. |
| 1:29.8 | We were on the floor at 9 o'clock. |
| 1:33.0 | Tom Sullivan was one of the representatives who spoke. |
| 1:36.7 | Representative Sullivan. |
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