Colorado residents may be pleased with the economic boon provided for by the legalization of marijuana, but they may not be quite so happy with the effect of new gun legislation. Laws that went into effect last year spurned considerable controversy from the start, but it is only now that statistics offer hard proof that these tough gun-control measures have done little, if anything, to stem the violence.
Colorado Springs-based News 5 has done an investigation into Colorado’s new gun laws, finding that this legislation does almost nothing to affect criminals – the very people they are aimed at stopping – while penalizing those who were already operating within the confines of the law. Pulling crime statistics from around the state, News 5 realized that gun crimes actually went up following the implementation of the laws.
The laws included mandatory background checks for firearm transfers and the banishment of magazines holding more than 15 rounds. Unfortunately, most gun criminals don’t pop down to the local gun shop to pick up the firearm they intend to use in a bank robbery or a gangland shooting. They get their weapons on the streets, steal them, or find some other nefarious way to keep a paper trail from pointing back at them. This would seem to register as common sense to most people, but no one ever accused gun-control advocated of having much of that.
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