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