Neither does the gun control that was supposed to stop all that crime. Despite decades of anti-gun efforts by Illinois lawmakers, mostly from Chicago itself, the gun laws have not done what proponents claimed. And, in fact, we have yet another data point showing just how ineffective those laws actually are. Good guys with guns stop mass shootings. Editor’s Note: The radical Left will stop at nothing to enact their radical gun control agenda and strip us of our Second Amendment rights.