{"id":94696,"date":"2023-07-25T18:52:25","date_gmt":"2023-07-25T23:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=94696"},"modified":"2023-07-25T18:52:25","modified_gmt":"2023-07-25T23:52:25","slug":"94696","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=94696","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Colorado Newspaper Editorial Scores Bullseye on Gun Control<\/a><\/p>\n

A Sunday editorial in the\u00a0Colorado Springs Gazette<\/a>, reacting to a high-profile shooting incident last week in Auckland, N.Z., was on target when it stated, \u201cBetter control over known lawbreakers is likelier to forestall the next such tragedy than is another attempt to control guns.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOur state knows the pain of such seemingly random madness,\u201d the editorial acknowledged, \u201cso the incident was all too relatable. But it also offered a reminder of the limits of gun-control laws \u2014 repackaged nowadays in the U.S. as \u2018gun safety\u2019 laws \u2014 in curbing such violence. New Zealand\u2019s crackdown on gun ownership in recent years obviously didn\u2019t prevent this tragedy.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 2019, following a bloody attack on two mosques in Christchurch, N.Z., the government there cracked down hard on law-abiding gun owners. New laws forced gun owners to turn in\u2014as part of a \u201cbuy back\u201d which many have referred to as \u201ccompensated confiscation\u201d\u2014of thousands of firearms. As the Gazette editorial pointed out, those gun laws did not prevent last week\u2019s shooting.<\/p>\n

A man identified as Matu Tangi Matua Reid walked into a construction site, where he was employed, and opened fire with a pump-action shotgun, as reported by\u00a0The Guardian<\/a>. He killed two people and wounded several others including two police officers. He was found dead, possibly of a self-inflicted wound.<\/p>\n

New Zealand authorities acknowledged Reid was on home detention but was allowed to go to work. He was doing time for a previous domestic violence offense.<\/p>\n

The Gazette editorial was sprinkled with advice to Centennial State lawmakers, noting with no small irony how earlier this year, majority Democrats were congratulating one another for the gun restrictions they passed, including bans on so-called \u201cghost guns,\u201d establishing a three-day waiting period on gun purchases, and raising the age for buying guns to 21 years.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf only such measures could make a difference in heading off mass murder,\u201d the Gazette editorial lamented. \u201cIf anything, they create a false hope.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is not a first for the newspaper in terms of going against the grain politically. Earlier, the Gazette published\u00a0another editorial<\/a>\u00a0telling the Legislature to make fighting crime a priority.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Colorado Newspaper Editorial Scores Bullseye on Gun Control A Sunday editorial in the\u00a0Colorado Springs Gazette, reacting to a high-profile shooting incident last week in Auckland, N.Z., was on target when it stated, \u201cBetter control over known lawbreakers is likelier to forestall the next such tragedy than is another attempt to control guns.\u201d \u201cOur state knows … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rkba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94696","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=94696"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94697,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94696\/revisions\/94697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}