Colorado’s Second Amendment deserts: Long drives and fewer gun dealers reshape access
By Cory Gaines | Commentary, Colorado Accountability Project
Colorado’s Second Amendment Deserts -- a two part look
If you read as much news as I do, it doesn’t take long to note that Colorado is the land of deserts.
There is the desert (the literal one) out where I live on the Eastern Plains, but that’s not all. There are food deserts. There are childcare deserts. There are maternal care deserts. Abortion and transgender care deserts.
I don’t know that I have ever read about any Second Amendment deserts here in Colorado, however. A natural question is whether there are any.
If a [fill in the blank] desert is a geographical region where something is unduly or unnaturally absent, then a Second Amendment desert would be a region in Colorado where people face either...

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