Massachusetts has a national reputation as a bastion of gun control, but crimes and injuries related to firearms have risen — sometimes dramatically — since the state passed a comprehensive package of gun laws in 1998. Murders committed with firearms have risen significantly, aggravated assaults and robberies involving guns have increased, and gunshot injuries are up, according to FBI and state data. To gun-rights groups, these statistics are evidence gun control does not work. To gun-control advocates, the numbers show that no state — no matter how tough the laws — is protected from ... Read More