There appears to be a significant recycling need, but there is also tremendous hassle and inefficiency in having to organize one's own recycling. From now on, I will recycle my magazines by giving them to the Penrose Library, and sadly discard my newspapers. Surely, a city as progressive and beautiful as Colorado Springs could institute a public recycling program including newspapers, cans, and glass, where everyone recycles as part of their weekly trash pickup. They are required by law to conduct background checks on all buyers. None of these require a background check.
Federal law prohibits such checks.
Now the SAFE initiative comes along, showing that all four guns a Columbine were purchased at gun shows and they want to have all gun-show sales conduct a background check. They didn't consider the fact that even if all sales required background checks, these four guns would still have been legally purchased. Less then 5 percent of all gun-show sales are through private parties, and the FBI's own statistics show that in all crimes involving a firearm, less then 1 percent of those firearms originated at gun shows. So I will ask you to please get your facts correct before publishing an article. One other question.