Firearms groups oppose gun ban ordinance… Court ruling to get rid of the ordinance
Police focus on investigating the motives of the suspect’s crime
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Ten days after the Boulder court in Colorado, USA, removed the gun ban, it was found that 10 people were killed in the area.
According to the New York Times (NYT) and others on the 24th (local time), the Boulder County court ruled on the 12th to abolish the gun ban in Boulder City.
In 2018, Boulder City Council enacted an ordinance banning the sale, possession, and transfer of most shotguns, semi-automatic rifles, and pistols to prevent mass-to-person shootings.
However, gun advocacy groups filed a lawsuit against the over-regulation, and the court raised the plaintiff’s hand, saying that Boulder’s gun ban was against Colorado law.
Colorado state law permits the use of legally acquired firearms.
Unfortunately, ten days after the ordinance was abolished, Ahmed Alyssa, 21, committed a terrible shooting in Boulder.
Alisa broke into a grocery store in Boulder on the 22nd and killed 10 people in total, including one officer, using semi-automatic assault rifles and pistols.
The’Ruger AR-556′ semi-automatic pistol, which Alisa bought six days before the crime, was also a weapon that was banned if Boulder’s firearm ban was alive.
‘AR-556’ is sold under the name of a pistol by firearm manufacturers, but it has the same function as a semi-automatic rifle commonly used by firearms and has the same appearance as it.
Exact information has not been disclosed as to whether Alyssa purchased the weapon from Boulder, where the ban has disappeared.
“It’s not yet clear where the suspect bought the firearm,” NYT said, “but if the ordinance had been alive, it would not have been legally possible to buy firearms in Boulder.”
City Councilman Rachel Friend Boulder said that after the abolition of the gun ban ordinance, “the shooting happened so quickly that it was shocking”. “The reason for making the ordinance was to prevent such shootings.”
Meanwhile, the police’s investigative power is focused on the motive of the crime of Ahmad Alyssa, a suspect in the Colorado firearms case. According to the Associated Press and CNN Broadcasting on the 24th (local time), the police are concentrating on finding clues as to why he committed a crime of mass destruction after prosecuting Alyssa for first-degree murder.
It was revealed that Alisa had prepared in advance, such as buying a firearm six days before the crime, and at the shooting site, it was revealed that he used a semi-automatic assault rifle to cruelly slaughtered innocent citizens. It is portrayed as a person suffering from delusions, the Associated Press reported.
According to police records, Alisa badly beat her classmates while she was attending high school in Albada, Colorado in 2017. It was because a classmate of the same class made fun of him and used a racist title. He became a third-degree assault convict in this case. He was ordered probation, community service, and anger control treatment, and was suspended from school.
He once played as a wrestler in high school, and his friends said that he couldn’t stand his anger even at this time. Angel Hernandez, who was on the wrestling team with Alyssa, told The Associated Press that Alyssa had once shouted at the match that he would swear and kill everyone, and that he was kicked out of the team.
“Alyssa was one of those people who easily got angry,” Hernandez said. “Once I was angry, I became someone else, and at that point, nothing could stop him.” Alisa’s older brother argued that he was antisocial and suffered a delusion that he was being chased and monitored by someone, and argued that the motive of the shooting was mental illness.
Alyssa, a Syrian-born US citizen, also revealed her dislike for Islamic hatred and racial discrimination through her Facebook page. He posted an article stating that Muslim haters and the high school he attended were hacking his cell phone and that it was racial discrimination.
When a New Zealand white supremacist fired in a mosque in March 2019, he also shared an article stating that “Muslims were not victims of a single shooter. They were victims of the entire Islamic hate industry.” . However, experts diagnosed that the tendency of Islamic extremism was not seen when analyzing Alisa’s Facebook article. The online terrorist watchdog’Site Intelligence Group’ said there was no evidence of a “radical or extremist view” in Alisa’s Facebook post.
Since the police are in the early stages of the investigation, it is premature to say the motive for the crime. In addition, the investigative authorities have not given a clear explanation of why Alisa committed a shooting crime by moving to a Boulder Grocery store 45 km from Albada, where she resides.
/ Reporter Kihyuk Kim [email protected]
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