Cindy Romero continues to leverage her newly found public profile, this time for an attack ad against Senate Bill 25-03, which seeks to ban semi-automatic rifles that can take detached magazines.
Back in August, Romero shared startling footage of armed men walking through her Aurora apartment building, igniting that city's controversy over Venezuelan gangs.
"We had these criminals terrorizing us. We were all low-income and just trying to survive...both my car and my husband's car were riddled with bullets," Romero says in the ad, which was posted on social media on Thursday, March 20. "It was terrifying. Without the ability to defend myself, I likely wouldn't have survived."
The ad, titled "Defenseless," was released by the Colorado State Shooting Association (CSSA), the state affiliate of the National Rifle Association. In a March 20 press release, the group claims that "Senate Bill 3 will deprive victims of access to common firearms" and that "Colorado politicians want to restrict firearms, except for themselves and their friends."
On August 18, Romero's front door camera at her apartment at the Edge of Lowry captured armed men walking through the hall, and she later shared the video with local TV stations. The footage went viral after it was posted online on August 28, and national and international headlines followed, claiming that Aurora had been taken over by Tren de Aragua (TdA), a Venezuelan prison gang.
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