Every February at the legislature seems to bring the opening of hunting season — against law-abiding gun owners. 

This year is no exception, as the proposals introduced about a quarter of the way through the session range from irritating and burdensome to downright dangerous. 

Although an outright ban on so-called “assault weapons” lacked support — including from Gov. Jared Polis — last year, that has not stopped the legislature’s two pro-Hamas champions from introducing it again this year. 

So if they can’t succeed in their dream policy goal of prohibiting the private ownership of firearms, the anti-gun warriors search their policy cupboards for ways to place needless burdens on gun owners and firearms and ammunition retailers, among others. 

In the dangerous category, Senate Bill 121 massively constrains your right to carry a firearm concealed once you have obtained the legal permit. The bill creates a laundry list of “sensitive spaces” where firearms would be prohibited including public parks, recreation centers, medical facilities, polling places (including near ballot drop boxes) and college campuses.

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It even bans concealed carry at churches (unless the church specifically allows it) — despite ample evidence deranged people target houses of worship.

Whether you have a concealed carry permit, or others do around you, this bill makes you less safe. Statistics compiled by the U.S. Concealed Carry Association indicate 85% of mass shootings occur in places labeled “gun-free zones.”

This is yet another example of liberals’ magical thinking. 

If this measure were subjected to about 10 seconds of logic, there would be a head-slapping realization even among the most vapid progressive. 

By definition, violent criminals, whether mentally ill or not, are not overly sensitive to law breaking. It defies logic such a person would do a U-turn when confronted with a sternly worded sign that he or she is entering a sensitive space and guns are prohibited. 

More likely, this encourages the violent, since they would have confidence law-abiding citizens would respect the prohibition, thus creating a safe space for violence. Nobody will draw down until law enforcement arrives. 

Liberal legislators are not alone in loving “gun-free” zones. Private companies embrace them too. 

One of the dumbest virtue signals is at a national fitness center chain that, in large letters at the front door declares the premises to be gun free. Leaving aside the challenge of carrying a firearm in one’s gym clothes while working out, what is the purpose of this declaration? It seems silly to tell a criminal, “C’mon in, nobody’s gonna stop you here.”    

It is the equivalent of a bank with the sign, “We believe in lock-free safes.” 

The problem with gun control advocates is they surely know expanding concealed carry prohibitions won’t really prevent violent crime. But since they lack the votes for gun bans, and the courts uphold frontal assaults on Second Amendment rights, they craft measures to make it more and more impractical to exercise your gun rights — or create ever higher hurdles to legally purchasing firearms. 

And they hypocritically propose these new laws within a building protected by metal detectors and men and women armed with guns. 

They know that the presence of strong security, not its absence, deters criminals. 

I once did a thought experiment with a friend who is slightly to the left of Karl Marx politically who apoplectically opposed metal detectors and even trained officers with guns on campus at local schools. 

So I suggested that if she really believed that let’s put up a huge sign on the school lawn where her child goes to school that says, “No deterrence to violent crime on this campus.” In other schools that would have strong security we would display the sign, “Metal detectors and armed response in place at this school.”  

Which one would she want to send her kid to?

“That’s not the point,” she said.  

Oh yes, it is. It is the entire point. 

Public safety is, at its core, personal safety. It is an essential duty of government to craft policies that practically, and meaningfully, help keep us safe. That includes safeguarding our fundamental right to self-defense in our own “sensitive spaces.”

In a state with soaring crime rates made worse by leftist pro-criminal, anti-gun policies, further weakening concealed carry laws amounts to legislative malpractice.

Sean Duffy, a former deputy chief of staff to Gov. Bill Owens, is a communications and media relations strategist and ghostwriter based in the Denver area.