Colorado Republican Rep. Don Wilson of Monument accidentally left a loaded Glock 9mm handgun in a restroom at the state Capitol last week.
In an apology on Twitter/X, Wilson claimed he “takes firearm safety very seriously,” which his behavior contradicts.
Wilson is the latest in a string of Colorado Republicans who have mishandled guns in and around the Capitol.
In 2022, Republican Rep. Richard Holtorf accidentally dropped a gun out of his pants onto a marble floor while hurrying to a vote in the House’s chamber. The gun hit the floor but fortunately did not go off. In 2014, Colorado House Rep. Jared Wright from Fruita left a loaded handgun unattended in a bag in a committee hearing room in the Capitol after a debate on a bill regarding concealed-carry permits. In 2012, Rep. Laura Bradford of Grand Junction was pulled over by Denver police after she was suspected of drunken driving, and police found she had a loaded handgun in her car.
Bradford admitted she had been drinking.
It’s illegal to possess a firearm while intoxicated.
And so it goes on.
The question is, how can Republicans who advocate a “guns-for-everyone-everywhere-all the time” philosophy credibly advocate for such an idea when time and time again they show they can’t even handle guns responsibly themselves?
The answer is, they can’t.
Good thing nobody was injured by his idiocy. “If anyone injures his neighbor, he has done it shall be done to him, fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; whatever injury he has given a person shall be given to him. — Leviticus 24:19–20
He “dodged [the proverbial] bullet.”