From right, Democratic candidates for Colorado s 6th Congressional District, Levi Tillemann and Jason Crow, to answer questions at a gun violence town hall on April 7, 2018, in Highlands Ranch. Next to them are cardboard cut outs of U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman, R-Aurora, and U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner, R-Colorado. Democrats are pushing gun control in the state s most competitive congressional district in the hopes of loosening Coffman s vice grip on the seat. (Kathryn Scott, The Denver Post ) Colorado's most competitive congressional district holds an infamous distinction in the history of American mass shootings: It was where 12 students and a teacher were gunned down at Columbine High School[1] in 1999 and where 12 died in the Aurora movie theater massacre[2] in 2012. These tragedies have produced some of the nation's loudest calls for tighter gun control in the past two decades, yet voters in the metro Denver district have in the past five elections backed Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman, a strong supporter of Second Amendment rights and someone who has won backing from the National Rifle Association[3]. This juxtaposition is one that Democrats want to spotlight[4] in their latest effort to dislodge the incumbent - a potentially risky move in a state where firearms are often a political third rail[5] and an issue that hasn't helped the party win[6] the 6th Congressional District seat in years past[7]. But gun control advocates and others on the left say it may work in November because they see a Gun control hasn't worked for Democrats in Colorado's battleground congressional district. Why they think it will lead to Mike Coffman's ouster in 2018.
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From right, Democratic candidates for Colorado s 6th Congressional District, Levi Tillemann and Jason Crow, to answer questions at a gun violence town hall on April 7, 2018, in Highlands Ranch. Next to them are cardboard cut outs of U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman, R-Aurora, and U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner, R-Colorado. Democrats are pushing gun control in the state s most competitive congressional district in the hopes of loosening Coffman s vice grip on the seat. (Kathryn Scott, The Denver Post ) Colorado's most competitive congressional district holds an infamous distinction in the history of American mass shootings: It was where 12 students and a teacher were gunned down at Columbine High School[1] in 1999 and where 12 died in the Aurora movie theater massacre[2] in 2012. These tragedies have produced some of the nation's loudest calls for tighter gun control in the past two decades, yet voters in the metro Denver district have in the past five elections backed Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman, a strong supporter of Second Amendment rights and someone who has won backing from the National Rifle Association[3]. This juxtaposition is one that Democrats want to spotlight[4] in their latest effort to dislodge the incumbent - a potentially risky move in a state where firearms are often a political third rail[5] and an issue that hasn't helped the party win[6] the 6th Congressional District seat in years past[7]. But gun control advocates and others on the left say it may work in November because they see a 