When a 16-year-old student began firing at his schoolmates at a popular Mountain town in Colorado and critically injured two students, it catapulted to the fore an emotionally-wrought and familiar debate at the state Capitol — how to stop a school mass shooting from happening again and again.

In Colorado, students, teachers and parents have lived with that horrific reality — the probability that, at any point, someone would barge into a campus and kill their loved ones — since the Columbine massacre in 1999.

In the last several years, Democrats in the Colorado General Assembly have pushed for numerous laws to restrict gun ownership, fueled by the underlying belief that guns — or access to them — are the culprit. Calls for similar policies are likely to resurface in the upcoming legislati

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