Posted on 11/21/2022 6:07:41 PM PST by Chad C. Mulligan
The Saturday night shooting in Colorado Springs’ Club Q occurred despite the fact that the state adopted stringent gun controls in the months and years following the December 14, 2012, attack on Sandy Hook Elementary School.
In the months immediately after the Sandy Hook attack, Colorado’s Democrat lawmakers pushed universal background checks through the legislature. Democrat Gov. John Hickenlooper signed the legislation into law on March 19, 2013.
Days prior to the bill being signed, Reuters reported Colorado Republican House minority leader Mark Waller warned, “If the goal is to enhance public safety, this bill won’t do it. If a criminal wants to perpetrate a crime he can still get a gun.”
Hickenlooper signed a ban on “high capacity” magazines into law at the same time he signed universal background checks.
USA Today noted that “Colorado passed a so-called ‘red flag’ law in 2019 that allows police to seize firearms from individuals deemed a risk to themselves or others.”
FOX News pointed out that Colorado’s red flag legislation “didn’t receive a single Republican vote in the state legislature.”
Eagle County Sheriff James van Beek slammed the red flag law as “ludicrous,” suggesting it treats gun owners like “criminals” while ignoring the reality that “a disturbed mind will not be deterred by the removal of their guns.”
Florida instituted a red flag law just weeks after the February 14, 2018, Parkland high school shooting that killed 17 people. Yet months in later, on January 23, 2019, five people were killed in an attack on a Sun Trust Bank in Sebring, Florida.
The left continuously pushes red flag laws, universal background checks, and “high capacity” magazine bans as ways to make people safe.
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Show us again how well your "gun control" works, leftists.
Gun control works quite well for its' intended purpose.
Which is to discourage law-abiding citizens from owning or using firearms.
"Reducing crime" is merely a false cover story to distract and confuse the opposition.
Proof that gun laws do not work.
An amazingly stupid comment
>The killings happened at Club Q, the headquarters for QAnon. Who would have thunk it?<
Holy irony, Batman!
I know you’re joking, but how fitting it would be if Aldrich turns out to be a brainwashed yute who bought into the QAnon hate spewed by the left wing press, and thought it was QAnon headquarters.
EC
Given the FBI's tendency to ignore all the warning signs that these demented cretins are constantly transmitting, it's almost like the want them to go postal.
Naw, that couldn't be...
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I want to know how much pot the perp was using prior to the attack. It is well established that a side effect of using pot can be the development of a psychotic break. Colorado celebrates pot use. Why is there almost a complete blackout of the perp? I haven’t even seen a mug shot of the guy, let alone hearing about the guy’s background. Why is that?
I wonder if the Nazis would have been able to murder 6 million Jews if they hadn't disarmed them first.
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