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Last Friday marked the 20th anniversary of the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act going into effect and The Brady Campaign celebrated the occasion by releasing a report detailing what it deems as the law’s success in reducing gun violence. However, not everyone is convinced.

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The report reveals that 44 school shootings have occurred in the 14 months following the Newtown tragedy, but not everyone agrees that school shootings are on the rise.

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When two law professors went head to head during a debate on Second Amendment rights, one did not hesitate to say that “restriction has to be at the core of this right” and the mere idea of citizens having the right to be armed as a means to depress tyranny is a bit farfetched.

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Although the bill was introduced before the Arapahoe High School shooting in Centennial last month, Colorado State Sen. Ted Harvey claims that the introduction of yet another tragedy only reiterates the need for armed staff in our schools.

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The “reliance on flawed public opinion surveys, misstatements about the current background check system, and use of emotional, inflammatory rhetoric belie the claim that the case for gun control is supported by ‘evidence-based medicine,’” when, in fact, she claims it does not.

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