51st state: 3-year old Frederick, CO boy accidentally killed by handgun.

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"Near the child was a handgun," Barbour said. "It also appeared with a little bit of inspection the handgun had been fired."
http://www.9news.com/news/article/362322/339/Boy-killed-in-Frederick-IDd

Apparently, the child found his stepfather's handgun and shot himself. This is part of the state that sees no need for greater gun control and want to suceede from Colorado because of recently passed laws.

Here's what a resident of Frederick said at a recent secessionist meeting:

Most could agree on two things: there is a “disconnect” between rural Colorado and the Denver-Boulder area, and secession for northeastern Colorado should be put before the voters as soon as possible. “It may just make a statement,” acknowledged Harry McClintock of Frederick. “But doggone it, I really hope we succeed in doing it!”
http://coyotegulch.wordpress.com/category/colorado-water/51st-state-initiative-north-colorado-secession/

Evidently the insane people of the 51st state don't care about their children. Is that the disconnect they're talking about?

They also want their children to live in a new cancer alley and continue to suffer from the global-warming-caused floods. Oh, and about all those gay people standing at the doors of the local county courthouse waiting to get civil unions....yeah, it's in their imagination!

In summary, the 51st state's issues with Colorado's most recent legislative session are: gay people getting civil unions, stricter gun regulations, freedom to frack, and opposition to efforts to stop global warming (they will/might have higher electricity rates due to new anti-global warming laws that require a greater percentage of clean energy from the state's utilities.)

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1. not an accident. outcome as a result of gun-owner behavior nt

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2. Correlative fail.

Thousands of children are shot every year in hundreds of other counties across the nation that don't want to secede. Tuesdays vote will show that the vast majority of people in this county don't want to secede. I live 3 miles from where this happened, all my neighbors think the secessionist movement is bullshit. The secessionist movement is about oil and gas rights, not gun rights. If there's talk of gun rights, it's ancillary. It's not the push behind the 51st state. If you recall, they only wanted the 51st state when citizens started to oppose fracking.

Here's a link to an article about when the 51st state "movement" started: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/26/most-in-favor-of-51st-sta_n_3658977.html

Note that there is not one mention of gun rights. Gun rights only started being mentioned after people started dog-piling on the secessionists about their bullshit idea.