John Hickenlooper, the former governor of Colorado, faces a basic challenge in the crowded Democratic presidential primary: He is a centrist in a party that’s moving to the left. Here are some of the issues he’s likely to discuss. Gun controlMr. Hickenlooper spent eight years as mayor of Denver, less than 10 miles from the sites of two of the nation’s worst mass shootings: Columbine High School and Aurora, Colo. He was governor at the time of the Aurora theater shooting, in which 12 people were killed and more than 50 were injured. Mr. Hickenlooper wants to enact similar policies, along with a higher minimum age to buy certain firearms, at the federal level.

Source: New York Times March 04, 2019 21:03 UTC