If allowed to stand, Minority Leader Hugh McKean's accidental vote could make it look in the historic record like the gun control bill had bipartisan support and from the Chamber’s top Republican no less.
Sen. Pete Lee, a Colorado Springs Democrat, noted the trailer park is in his district.
Even as many prepared to celebrate Mother’s Day, a man walked into a birthday party and started shooting, Lee recounted.
“My deepest sympathies and heartfelt sorrow” go out to the family and friends of the victims, neighbors and first responders, he said.
He added, as others also did, that it’s premature to talk about what happened and about the shooter’s motivations. But “this event is incomprehensible in our consciousness,” Lee said.
“What has occurred in our society that is unique in the world of civilized and uncivilized people is that these events keep happening with almost predictable regularity, with the events of Boulder still fresh in our thoughts,” Colorado Springs now has the eyes of the nation upon it, Lee said. “We have no answers. All we have is indescribable heartbreak and shared anguish for the victims.”