No, Post-Sand Hook Measures Aren’t Responsible For Dropping Crime Rates

By Tom Knighton

I still remember the absolute horror of watching the news when the story broke of a shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School. I was sitting there, working, with my infant daughter playing on the floor beside me as I watched in utter horror. The fact that those kids were just a few years older than my little girl…yeah, it got me in the gut.

However, I also knew that the anti-gun left would use it to try and push more and more anti-gun regulation, and they did. While they lost on the national stage, they gained some ground in some states.

Now, they’re crowing about all the success they’ve been having.

“There wasn’t much we could do, but a resolution seemed like a good idea,” Bono recently said. It would send a signal of disapproval to Albany and to buck up local state legislators to keep alive the fight against the SAFE Act. Bono and his fellow county commissioners talked up their resolution to their counterparts throughout northern and central New York. The idea quickly caught on. Five years later, similar measures calling for the repeal of the SAFE Act have passed in 52 of the state’s 62 county legislatures, …Read the Rest

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