Hartford CT has finished the first year of a program to reduce gun violence, and the results are in. A 40 percent drop in gun homicides, and a 30 percent drop in first degree assaults with a firearm. I am a strong RKBA advocate, yet I approve. How is this possible?
You can read the story here:
http://www.courant.com/...
The short form is that Hartford law enforcement worked to:
• predict retaliatory shootings
• identify potential future shooters or victims
• establish a regional stolen firearms protocol
• target the city's most violent criminals
Note what is missing from this list (and the news story). Absolutely no mention of making it harder for law-abiding, peaceful citizens to acquire firearms.
Police chief James Rovella: "We're now seeing that we are fishing with more of a spear instead of a net. I don't look for hundreds and hundreds of arrests. I look for those violent people that are impacting our city and our region on a daily basis."
A 40 percent homicide drop in one year, by targeting the people who would misuse guns, not the guns themselves.
Food for thought.