The intensity of rhetoric sometimes seems to pull a trigger in their brain, they lose contact with what reality is. Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper More Quotes by Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper More Quotes From Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper Detailed plans probably aren't appropriate, but I think we have to come back and look at all aspects of why these shootings have continued to occur -- you know, in Oregon, or South Carolina or Colorado, the frequency is unacceptable, and I don't -- I'm not willing to say, 'Well, we just have to sit back and accept this as the cost of freedom,'. Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper politics