Colorado Has ?Universal Background Checks,? So Why Is Crime Rising?
When laws are predicated on emotions and not empirical data or when criminals are not aggressively removed from our communities (police arrest criminals and investigate crimes. They do not provide any personal protection in other words they have no duty to protect.?) feel good measures paper over the root causes and leave our communities at risk. Hence, universal background checks and magazine bans are not producing the results they, the Democrats promised. No surprise.
Moreover, rather than rescinding these policies that failed. They, the Democrats are silent and refuse to accept any blame or to remedy the policies.
It is not about reducing gun violence or crime, it is about dictating to you and I and making gun ownership cumbersome, burdensome and expensive. Gun confiscation and the elimination of the 2A is their endgame......subjects rather than citizens.
John Hickenlooper himself said the gun control bills he signed would make Colorado safer in the long run.
We as a community tried to process the shooting that took place last July in a dark movie theatre. We spent a great deal of time, thinking, talking to people, and trying to look at what could we as a state do to address some of these issues, Hickenlooper told reporters after signing the bills in his office. We have signed today several bills that materially will make our state safer in the long-run and allow us to begin to address some of these issues head-on.
Five years is a pretty long run and crime in Colorados still going in the wrong direction, because gun control advocates got their wish. They managed to put several gun control bills on the books with the promise that they would lead to safer societies, instead of focusing on the relative handful of people who are actually driving the violence. The result? An eight percent increase in violent crime in Denver from 2017 to 2018, and a ten percent rise in the homicide rate.
Violent crimes in Denver took a disturbing leap from 2017 to 2018, when 457 more offenses took place. The rise in murders from 58 in 2017 to 65 in 2018 is especially troubling and so, too, is the increase in aggravated assaults. The 2018 aggravated-assault figure in Denver, 3,314, is 509 more than the previous years and actually exceeds the total difference between 2017 and 2018 by itself.
Again, this was not supposed to happen according to gun control advocates. Colorado was going to be safer place with these gun control laws on the books. Instead, in 2018 the state had its highest violent crime rate since 2006 and its highest homicide rate since 2004, and I do not believe a single legislator who voted for these bills in the name of public safety has been asked why it didn?t work.
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