Posted on 11/22/2022 5:45:51 AM PST by Erik Latranyi
Once again, we have seen a high-profile shooting that wasn’t stopped by gun control but could have been stopped if law enforcement and prosecutors had done their jobs.
Another shooting, another law enforcement failure that gun control wouldn't solve Another shooting, another law enforcement failure that gun control wouldn't solve
A gunman in Colorado Springs killed five people and injured 18, and unsurprisingly, he was already on law enforcement’s radar. In June 2021, he allegedly threatened his mother with a homemade bomb. Neighbors were forced to evacuate from their homes, and a bomb squad and crisis negotiators were brought in.
And yet, according to the Associated Press, “there’s no public record that prosecutors moved forward with felony kidnapping and menacing charges.” In Colorado, first-degree kidnapping can be punished with up to 24 years in prison, and second-degree kidnapping can carry a sentence of up to eight years in prison. A felony menacing conviction can result in a sentence between one and three years.
Instead, charges were dropped. The shooter was out on the streets with seemingly no restrictions and no felonies on his record, meaning it is entirely possible that the firearms he used in the shooting were purchased by him legally, as CNN claimed law enforcement believes. Even if they weren’t, though, it is a moot point. The shooter should have been behind bars on felony charges.
There is also no indication that Colorado’s red flag law was ever used by the shooter’s family or by law enforcement to remove firearms from his possession.
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exactly!
nearly EVERY ONE of these issues could of been avoided if the perps had already been in jail for OTHER crimes they had committed in the past!!!
Liberals are to blame for the crime wave in America!
Gun control is not intended to stop crime. It is intended to disarm ordinary people so they cannot effectively resist predators. The peasants should not even be able to think they can resist predators. Government officials are supposed to have a monopoly on any use of force.
And government is the apex predator in the ecosystem. Violent criminals are allies of government to the extent that they limit their predation to approved targets. That keeps the population fearful and willing to obey authorities.
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