Illinois has solid gun laws, as does Maryland and California.

Yet California has a gun violence per capita of 8.5 of 100,000, Illinois is at 14.1, Maryland sits at 13.5

Rhode Island is only higher than Massachusetts, with the rates at 5.1 and 3.7 respectively.

Every other state is higher than us in the region.

So if CT and the other above states have stronger gun laws than us, than why is their rates so much higher?

Gun laws don’t prevent people from dying from guns, it’s the people who own them.

Every person arrested for a gun charge this year will commit those crimes regardless of any law that’s passed. You could outright ban the ownership of all firearms in this state and you’d still have people breaking the law and shooting each other.

So no, we don’t need more gun control in this state that will just fuck the law abiding gun owners.