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Posted on 04/19/2026 4:23:33 PM PDT by CFW
When the FBI's official crime stats come out later this year, we're likely to learn that 2025 saw a record-setting decline in homicides nationwide, and that the overall homicide rate is the lowest it's been since the FBI started keeping track in 1960.
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Still, there are some outliers, and one of them is Denver, Colorado. Last year Denver saw a 48% decrease in homicides, with Denver Police Chief Ron Thomas pointing to "a mix of faster police response, medical intervention, and long-term prevention strategies." This year, though, homicides are trending in the wrong direction.
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Last year, Democrats in the Colorado legislature added several new restrictions to the spate of gun control laws that have been put in place since 2011, but they don't appear to be having any kind of impact on homicides in the state's biggest city. That's hardly a surprise, though, given that violent crime overall climbed steadily over most of the past 15 years.
In May,2024 the Colorado Division of Criminal-Justice released its report documenting crime rates between 2013 and 2022. Over that ten year period, violent crime rose by 61%, homicides increased by 94%, and aggravated assaults grew 88%.
During that same ten-year period, Colorado instituted a number of gun control laws, starting with "universal" background checks and a ban on "large capacity" magazines in 2013. That was followed by a "red flag" law in 2019, and in 2021, new storage mandates for gun owners, a "lost or stolen" reporting requirement, and an end to the state's firearm preemption law.
Despite having almost a dozen anti-2A measures implemented over that time period, the homicide rate nearly doubled, and violent crime rates soared ever upward.
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Remember when states such as Florida started recognizing the Second Amendment and citizen's right to bear arms? There was supposed to be "blood in the streets" but that is not what happened.
not “despite” gun control....but because of it
Well that just means they need more gun control obviously.
Just “downtown” or across the whole urban utopia?
“In May,2024 the Colorado Division of Criminal-Justice released its report documenting crime rates between 2013 and 2022. Over that ten year period, violent crime rose by 61%, homicides increased by 94%, and aggravated assaults grew 88%.”
The D response? Tighten the screws down on law-abiding gun owners harder.
The gun control laws have nothing to do with violence and everything to do with (1) disarming the middle class and (2) poking people they don’t like in the eye.
Huh. It’s almost as if the criminals don’t give a rip about the new gun laws.
Fancy that.
Sure. As long as it’s “common sense” gun control, I’m all for it. Although, in my experience, there isn’t any other kind
Related article from Bearing Arms:
“Gun Control Activist Calling on Fellow Travelers to Say Quiet Part Out Loud”
“Some worry that reclaiming “gun control” will alienate people or undo years of coalition building. I understand that concern. I once shared it. But this is not about abandoning “gun safety” or “gun violence prevention”. It is about recognizing that each serves a different purpose. Safety speaks to individual behavior. Prevention frames the public health approach. Control is what makes policy change possible.
When we limit ourselves to softer language alone, we risk limiting the solutions we are willing to pursue. When we expand our language, we expand what becomes possible.”
Denver is a combination of Chicago and San Francisco. I live in the state and avoid Denver like the plague. 40 years ago it was okay. It’s done nothing but go downhill since then with no end in sight.
Oh, Democrats are real big on “common sense.”
Even when they’re advocating the teaching of homosexuality to kindergartners, and doing double mastectomies on healthy teenage girls. It’s all “common sense.”
Can’t they read?
“Gun Free Zone.”
Career Criminal to Pal: “I’m sort of on pins and needles. Tomorrow my waiting period on the gun registration is completed. I can hardly wait to get going on crime again.”
You mean Criminals don’t follow the Law? Who would have guessed?
“gun control” is itself a stupid phrase.
i never met a gun which decided to freak out
Colorado ping.
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