Cub Scout Is Exiled After Pressing Legislator on Guns and Race<br />At the meeting on Oct. 9, for which the scouts were told to prepare questions for State Senator Vicki Marble,<br />Ms. Mayfield recorded her son asking the senator why she would not support “common-sense gun laws.”<br />“I was shocked that you co-sponsored a bill to allow domestic violence offenders to<br />continue to own a gun,” Ames said in a question that took more than two minutes.<br />“As part of the Boy Scouts of America and the World Scouting Organization, we<br />are an inclusive group regardless of politics, religion, gender and race.”<br />The incident was also covered extensively by news outlets in Colorado, partly because, in addition to gun control,<br />Ames had asked Ms. Marble about remarks she made in 2013 about the causes of health issues among black people.<br />As part of her answer, Ms. Marble, a Republican from Fort Collins, defended her position on gun ownership, saying<br />that shootings in Las Vegas and Aurora, Colo., happened in so-called gun-free zones, and that “the more guns a society has, the less crime or murders are committed.”<br />On Oct. 14, five days after the event with Ms. Marble, Ms. Mayfield was asked to meet the leader of<br />the Cub Scout pack who oversees a number of dens in Broomfield, including the one Ames belonged to.
