Denver’s Carry Ban as a Tool of Progressive Pathocracy and Moral Disarmament
“Sensitive Places” and the Cluster B State
Recently, a man wielded a machete in Commons Park at others enjoying the park exposing what Denver’s “sensitive places” laws truly accomplishes: disarming the competent and empowering the violent. That adds to last month’s terrorist attack against peaceful people bringing attention to Israeli hostages taken by Hamas in the gun-free utopia of Boulder.
The people most capable of responding to a lethal threat against one’s life—lawful concealed carriers—are banned by decree from doing so thanks to a slew of laws passed since the domination of Denver and much of the state by Progressive Colonists.
But such is not a policy failure.
It’s policy working as designed.
This is the face of the pathocratic state, where laws are no longer crafted to uphold virtue but to punish it.
Gun-free zones aren’t based on data or deterrence. They’re based on comfort for elites—a luxury belief worn like a badge by Colorado’s urban professional class.
The same class that outsources its safety to private security tells working-class parents and single mothers to “just call the police” when danger appears, even though the same people often chant for calls to defund such police.
They want to “feel safe.”
They don’t care if you actually are safe.
The architects of this disarmament regime are Colorado’s Progressive Colonists—ideologues imported through donor-funded machines who impose coastal norms on a state they neither understand nor respect. They see rural and working class Coloradans, gun owners, and moral independence as obstacles to be managed—not constituents to be heard.
The result is a government that behaves less like a neutral arbiter and more like a Cluster B abusive mother, smothering the populace under the guise of care, punishing autonomy, and gaslighting them into believing dependency on the state is virtuous.
As Eric S. Raymond explains in Ethics from the Barrel of a Gun, carrying a weapon isn’t about violence (or phallus-size signaling)—it’s about moral readiness.
It requires judgment, restraint, and a willingness to accept the consequences of action. That kind of maturity is exactly what the Progressive Colonist fears—because it makes the State less central, and the citizen more sovereign.
Their laws are not aimed at the criminal, who they regularly let slide thanks to their so-called criminal justice reform and sanctuary policies. They’re instead aimed at disarming the responsible, the sovereign.
This “sensitive spaces” gobbledygook regime doesn’t stop at parks. It expands into libraries, polling stations, and anywhere else citizens might act independently. Every “sensitive place” is just another step in normalizing helplessness.
This is not good governance. It’s psychological warfare, waged by a class that sees itself as above consequence and sees your autonomy as a threat to be neutralized.
It is time to stop treating the state as a parent and start recognizing it at a minimum as a servant. A government that distrusts its most capable citizens cannot be trusted to govern at all.
Colorado must reject the Progressive Colonist vision before it disarms not just its people—but their moral clarity, their responsibility, and their right to self-determination.