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In Colorado, They\u2019re Cracking the Code on Gun Control: It Doesn\u2019t Work<\/a><\/p>\n

U.S.A.<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013-(AmmoLand.com)-<\/a>\u00a0Writing over the weekend in the\u00a0Denver Post,<\/a>\u00a0George H. Brauchler\u2014former district attorney for the Centennial State\u2019s 18th<\/sup>\u00a0Judicial District\u2014wrote something that might be considered blasphemy among anti-gun politicians and gun prohibition lobbying groups.<\/p>\n

Brauchler was discussing mass shootings in Colorado in a story headlined, \u201cGun laws may prevent some crimes, but mass shootings isn\u2019t one of them.\u201d He mentioned shootings dating all the way back to Columbine High School and included the carnage at the Aurora theater in 2012. His summation boiled down to this:<\/p>\n

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\u201cBut linking current federal and state legislation to preventing horrors like Boulder is mere political opportunism. We must continue to work to keep firearms out of the wrong hands, but we must also recognize that we cannot legislate away evil.\u201d<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Almost simultaneously,\u00a0CPR was reporting<\/a>\u00a0that gun owners in the state \u201care gearing up to oppose any new proposed restrictions, despite the fact that the most controversial proposal has not yet been introduced.\u201d The story quotes Mario Acevedo, a Denver novelist \u201cwho is both a Democrat and a gun owner.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAcevedo does not think new gun laws provide the solution,\u201d the story reveals. \u201cHe said data has convinced him that gangs, drug trafficking and mental illness are the drivers of gun deaths, not firearms.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Perhaps this excerpt from the story says it best, quoting Acevedo:<\/p>\n

\u201cColorado passed the universal background check and the high capacity magazine ban that was done under the premise that it was going to prevent mass shootings. The state\u00a0passed the red flag law<\/strong><\/a>, the ERPO [Extreme Risk Protection Order] that again was done on the premise of preventing mass shootings. And it didn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Colorado has seen its share of trouble over the past 20-plus years. But at least some residents are realizing what many in the Second Amendment community have been saying for years is correct:<\/p>\n

Gun control doesn\u2019t stop people from committing mayhem because those determined to harm other people will find a way to do it.<\/h3>\n

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In 2019, according to data AmmoLand found at the\u00a0CDC website<\/a>, there were 19,141 homicides. The FBI\u00a0Uniform Crime Report<\/a>\u00a0for that year lists 13,927 slayings, including 10,258 involving firearms. When the most authoritative agencies in the U.S. that keep such data are not in agreement, it would suggest there is room for debate on how to reduce the body count. If the Colorado experience is any indicator, passing gun control laws that only affect law-abiding citizens rather than criminals is not the solution.<\/p>\n

AmmoLand has previously reported the situation in Washington State, where the passage of extremist gun control initiatives in 2014 and 2018 that were both sold to the voters as preventive measures have hardly lived up to the advertising.<\/p>\n

The 2014 law mandated so-called \u201cuniversal background checks\u201d on firearms transfers, with some exceptions. In 2016, the state saw two high-profile shootings, one at a teen party in Mukilteo that claimed three lives and a few months later in Burlington that left five people dead. In the first instance, the 19-year-old killer passed a background check to purchase a semi-auto modern sporting rifle. Since he had no criminal background, he was able to buy the gun. In the second incident, the killer took a rifle from his stepfather\u2019s house\u2014thus avoiding a background check altogether\u2014and essentially neutered the law.<\/p>\n

Focus on Seattle, headquarters city to the billionaire-backed Alliance for Gun Responsibility, which is holding its 9th<\/sup>\u00a0annual fund raising luncheon on April 20\u2014again a virtual event due to the continuing pandemic\u2014where gun control efforts have failed dramatically to reduce homicides.<\/p>\n

In 2015, the city council hastily adopted a \u201cgun tax\u201d on firearms and ammunition sales to raise funds for \u201cgun violence prevention\u201d efforts. The following years saw 19 murders, according to Seattle police data. In 2017, the city reported 27 homicides and in 2018, the body count went up to 32. In 2019, the city logged 35 murders and last year there were 52 slayings, the highest in more than a dozen years.<\/p>\n

Back in Colorado, Denver Post readers were reminded by Brauchler, \u201cDespite the apparent legal purchase of the murder weapon used in Boulder, less than one day after the horror, Democratic Congressman Jason Crow tweeted, \u201cThe House passed #HR8 and #HR1446 (background check bills) to help prevent tragedies like we saw last night.\u201d That correlation is misplaced and misdirects our focus from efforts that would likely have greater impact. Colorado legislators urged passage of legislation requiring firearms be safely stored and their theft reported. None of those laws would have prevented Boulder or most of the other mass murders we have experienced.\u201d<\/p>\n

The former prosecutor \u201ccracked the code\u201d and identified the primary problem with all knee-jerk gun control. The proposed solutions don\u2019t address the crime.<\/p>\n

It should be no mystery why Coloradoans are reportedly resistant to the new gun control proposals following Boulder. Passing another ineffective gun control law may be good for a headline, but not much else. Perhaps that accounts for Sen. Ted Cruz\u2019s (R-TX) remark last month during a meeting of the Senate Judiciary Committee following the Georgia and Colorado shooting incidents.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery time there\u2019s a shooting, we play this ridiculous theater where this committee gets together and proposes a bunch of laws that would do nothing to stop these murders,\u201d Cruz stated.<\/h3>\n

He refuted an assertion from anti-gun Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) that all Republicans ever offered were \u201cthoughts and prayers\u201d in the aftermath of such crimes.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe senator from Connecticut knows that is false,\u201d Cruz responded, \u201cand he knows that\u2019s false, because Sen. (Chuck) Grassley (R-IA) and I together introduced legislation \u2026 targeted at violent criminals, targeted at felons, targeted at fugitives, targeted at those with serious mental disease to stop them from getting firearms and put them in prison when they try to illegally buy guns,\u201d as quoted by\u00a0The Hill.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yet, with Democrats now in control on Capitol Hill and the White House, the same pattern is once again emerging. Joe Biden called for a ban on \u201cassault weapons\u201d after Boulder. Others want quick action on two background check measures recently passed by the House, despite the fact that both shooters passed background checks.<\/p>\n

Translation: The \u201csolutions\u201d offered by anti-gunners penalize all gun owners for crimes committed by individuals, and put more emphasis on the murder weapon than the perpetrator. And those offering solutions never admit their previous measures failed miserably. At least in Colorado, they\u2019re beginning to figure it out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Colorado, They\u2019re Cracking the Code on Gun Control: It Doesn\u2019t Work U.S.A.\u00a0\u2013-(AmmoLand.com)-\u00a0Writing over the weekend in the\u00a0Denver Post,\u00a0George H. Brauchler\u2014former district attorney for the Centennial State\u2019s 18th\u00a0Judicial District\u2014wrote something that might be considered blasphemy among anti-gun politicians and gun prohibition lobbying groups. Brauchler was discussing mass shootings in Colorado in a story headlined, \u201cGun … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rkba","category-safety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66547,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66546\/revisions\/66547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}