They always want to punish the people who didn't so it. But if gun bans work so well, how did James Brady get shot in the head with a handgun during the 1981 assassination attempt on president Reagan, in a city where handguns had been banned since 1976?
Maybe the shooter was a believer in CCW reciprocity, as you all are.
"A decade after Stockton, the law enforcement system failed again at Columbine High School. The year before Columbine, in the spring of 1998, the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office had prepared an affidavit to ask for a search warrant for the home of one of the criminals. The affidavit was based on his published death threats on the Internet, and on the discovery—in a park a mile and half from his home—of bombs like the ones that he bragged about making. The fact of the never-executed search was unknown to the public until two years after Columbine, when
Sixty Minutes II uncovered the affidavit by using Colorado's Open Record Act. Why the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office dropped the matter remains a mystery. The Office admitted in court that it had shredded many of its Columbine documents".