Colorado Lawmakers Faced Intense Profanity, Rape Threats Amid Heated Gun Control Debate

[Robb]

Lawmakers are known to get angry messages from unhappy constituents, but the emails that Democratic lawmakers in Colorado received during the 2013 legislative session as they debated gun control are downright ugly.

The Democratic caucus compiled a worst-of collection of extraordinarily offensive and vile emails that various lawmakers received between March and April, called "Worst Regards," as the gun control debate raged in the statehouse.

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Below is just a small sampling of some of the ugliest emails Colorado lawmakers received in 2013, but be warned, although some of the strong language has been censored, the contents of the emails are still EXTREMELY offensive. The identities of the email authors, as well as the lawmakers who received these messages, have been removed from each email. Spelling and grammar remain as originally emailed....

Read More: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/05/worst-regards-colorado-democrat-lawmakers-threats-gun-control_n_3874035.html

[Scuba]

1. Mainstream Republicans, every damn one of them.

[kelliekat44]

2. And these people should have guns....without control?????? nt

[Robb]

3. They shouldn't have can openers. nt

[DevonRex]

4. This is the beginning of a nationwide push against EVERY state

legislator who doesn't vote their way. They're starting with the states that passed gun control measures like we did.

I am SO proud of our state, Robb. We fought so hard for this. And we won. We got these fine people elected, we supported them in the fight for the measure, and because WE DEMOCRATS control both houses, WE WON.

But we can't stop. Thank you SO much for highlighting that the NRA wants to destroy the Democratic majority. This is about guns, sure. But it affects EVERYTHING ELSE. LGBT civil rights, legalized marijuana use, ACA, expanded Medicaid, prison reform, voting rights.

[Warren Stupidity]

5. K&R. The ugly is all over the gun lobby.