Gun laws won’t ever stop gun violence

I recently traveled up North, where a shooting incident was widely reported. It seems some people in Bridgeport, Connecticut held a party involving more than a hundred people. Sometime after midnight, gunfire erupted, wounding 13 people. Little is known about the shooters at this point. Police believe there were only two shooters.

My point is this: Connecticut has very strict gun laws. A permit is needed not only to buy firearms but ammo as well. Private gun sales are illegal. Hi capacity magazines. “Assault-type” weapons are banned. All firearms ownership is kept in a registry by the state police.

It is illegal to not properly store a firearm, etc., etc.

Hillary Clinton used that state’s gun laws as a model for the rest of the country. Yet with all these wonderful laws, 13, I repeat, 13 people were still shot. Lawmakers are now calling for more anti-gun laws. Therein lies the problem.

Gun laws are meaningless to bad people. Trying to legislate away gun violence is a total failure. This is a prime example.

This story was originally published September 1, 2016 at 9:37 AM with the headline "Gun laws won’t ever stop gun violence."