That we can elect people, to responsible offices, who can spout this type of wholly illogical tripe, does not speak well for us. Not only do we continue to elect morons to office, we do so without knowing that they're incapable of critical thinking, and then fail to hold them accountable when the foist useless new laws upon us.
It's not as though the criminals and gang-bangers will cease carrying their already unlawfully carried concealed handguns into the parks now; they will not cease to make drug deals nor use drugs in the parks, nor will they cease shooting others of their ilk, oft-times claiming innocent lives as well. Taking the ability for self-defense away from law-abiding citizens improves everyone's safety?
Seattle's mayor tried to ban lawful concealed carry in his city's parks back in 2010, a law that was battled all the way up to the state supreme court, which was forced to recognize the state's preemption law. Too bad Colorado doesn't have a strong state preemption law in light of what its cities are doing. As an aside, no law-abiding citizens spend much time in Seattle's parks any longer, as most of them have turned into homeless camps. But, the homeless do have the right to defend themselves with firearms... which is apparently happening far more often than what's reported in the news.