The frequency of these and similar incidents on and around the campus appear to be increasing at what I would call an alarming rate. Perhaps my awareness has heightened by the recent enrollment of my daughter, but the pattern is disturbing.

FEMA arrived in Weld, Larimer, and Morgan counties. Those counties are already receiving assistance, and local officials once so willing to secede are unsurprisingly thankful for that same federal aid. Vexatious truth facing those whose fierce individualism hindered their view of reality. Life lessons shouldn't require a tragedy and sadly, even after receiving federal aid, too many will continue to deride the federal government and its leadership. It's now time to put those quixotic ideologies aside and work together to get everyone safe and rebuild.

There is a certain twisted disingenuity to Mr. Greenlee's assertion. There isn't anything in the fair practice of reasonable men to suggest that a company, feeling wronged by legislation enacted by the citizens, should then be encouraged to spend public money in an effort to craft new legislation, which returns that company to its former status, in the face of community sentiment already expressed.

No more than they can eliminate your senseless inductive fallacies and hackneyed non sequiturs.

I was introduced to Barry while listening to Big Brother and the Holding Company at Barry's venue called the Family Dog. Going forward, I attended perhaps 30 larger concerts in which Barry had a hand in bringing to Denver and the West. My first was the Denver Pop Festival; Hendrix, Iron Butterfly, Frank Zappa, Three Dog Night, Big Mama Thornton, Candy Bolen's Zephyr w/Tommy Bolen, CCR, Joe Cocker, the Flock (from Chicago), Johnny Winter, etc. Few people could have put that event together considering the eclectic mix of bands and the unraveling of the Jimi Hendrix experience right before our eyes.

RIP brother, you made my life richer.

Something very similar to that model already exists in Louisville, where the practice reveals a certain invidious result. Average water consumption was calculated, based on a large population of very small, older homes often occupied by retired citizens with no children. Consumption outside of that model, comprised mostly of families with children and living on larger lots, is levied a penalty rate.

We have been in a "draught" state since I can remember - some 50 years. That challenge has done little to abate the growth cities along the front range pursue in the interest of plying additional tax income. The sad result is the levy of additional expense upon citizens whose city authorities couldn't look past the next paycheck. Sadly, the trend in services is to expect us to pay more, while accepting lower quality.

Maybe some of the water used for fracking could be "redirected." Just saying...

Yours is quite possibly the most intellectually bankrupt response I've every read. Please, for the benefit of everyone here, return to your television and North Korea worry beads, and try to avoid conjuring up more prejudicial false dilemmas laced with character attacks and inductive fallacy.

@fbarton, your non sequitur attempt to affirm the consequent is non sensical. If laws are difficult to enforce, they must not be good laws, and therefore we shouldn't pursue making laws. The glaring weakness of that argument and underlying logic is at once impulsive, careless, and inimical, so let's move on.

I love Patagonia, I like Whole Foods, and companies prepared to embrace a model of behavior that reflects the value of the brand.

Patagonia says "Build the best product, cause no unnecessary harm, use business to inspire and implement solutions to the environmental crisis." Dare I say there is nothing in that statement to suggest they will only sell or manufacture their product in like minded communities to like-minded clients. Patagonia manufactures product in factories in Jordan, Nicaragua, Sri Lanka, India and Bangladesh, China, Thailand, Vietnam, Turkey, Mexico, Costa Rica, Colombia, El Salvador, Israel, the Philippines and the U.S. So, it's unclear what you may have been trying to say by referencing Patagonia.

As for Whole Foods, there is a lot to like about their stores where terrific marketing and a strong code of ethics – extended to every employee, makes for a very enjoyable shopping experience. Yet, I don’t see anything about Whole Foods to suggest that their business model includes anything more than finding attractive communities where demand for healthy food and a gentrified buyer profile exists. I can’t find any record of Whole Foods pulling out of a community because they didn’t like the local law.

Magpul is majority owned by private equity firms (from New York City and Raleigh), which invested in the company in the belief that recent gun sale trends would continue and when combined with an expanded product line, they could capitalize on that opportunity and see an acceptable return to their limited partners. They also have investments in Remington, a number of restaurant chains, food products, healthcare, etc.

Now if you really believe for one second that Magpul is committed to this state and will leave the state only because it can’t manufacture here in the face of potential legislation, perhaps you can explain this quote from Drake Clark, senior director of sales and business development for Magpul, "We put Boulder, Colorado, on everything that we make, and really that's just a slap in the face to the hippies."

It's a struggle to understand what fbarton is trying to say, but I am willing to wade in and dissect this mess.

Firstly, people break the law every day. As a society, we long ago adopted the behavior of "no blood, no foul." We drift through stop signs; we drink and drive; we inflate our deductions on income tax returns, etc. It's only a problem when you get caught breaking the law, and ignorance as they say, is no excuse. In short, yes, you can break the law and purchase outside Colorado. As soon as you return to the state with illegal magazines, you are breaking the law, and if caught, the law will be prosecuted.

2010 was the first year business bankruptcies declined in this state since 2006 and during the first half of 2012, business bankruptcy fell by 12%; the biggest improvement ever witnessed.

Perhaps more importantly, since the movement toward a more progressive legislative environment in Colorado, we have witnessed the following:
-We moved up to become the 8th top state for job growth (ASU WP Carey School study)
-That bastion of progressive thinking, the US Chamber of Commerce named Colorado the 2nd top spot for entrepreneurship and innovation in the country.
-Forbes names us the 5th best state for business.
-MoneyRates named the state the 5th best for making a living.
-StartUpHire named Colorado 1st for growth in the startup job sector.
-Beacon Hill Institute named Colorado the 3rd best for economic competitiveness.
-Similar awards came to the state in 2012 from 24/7 Wall Street 2012, priceWaterhouse Coopers, TechAmerica, CNBC, etc.

Whatever this “unbalanced” legislature is doing to piss off people like fbarton might be okay provided the same legislature continue to elevate the quality of the business climate in this state.

In short, Magpul can certainly choose to leave one of the most attractive states in the country for business; it is their choice. Perhaps they will move to one of those bastions of 2nd amendment rights and toilet bowl level economies like Georgia, Alabama, Missouri, or even, dare I say it, Wyoming.