{"id":84204,"date":"2022-08-05T09:34:23","date_gmt":"2022-08-05T14:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=84204"},"modified":"2022-08-05T09:34:23","modified_gmt":"2022-08-05T14:34:23","slug":"84204","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=84204","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Democrats\u2019 Lame Attempt to Flip the Narrative on Crime: Claiming 2nd Amendment is Anti-Police<\/a><\/p>\n

Ahead of the 2022 midterm elections, with rising violent crime a top concern for voters, the vast majority of Democrats are now working overtime to distance themselves from their prior support for the \u201cDefund the Police\u201d movement. Increasingly, however, it appears that they\u2019re linking this professed newfound support for law enforcement to another pillar of Democrats\u2019 far-left agenda \u2013 gun control.<\/p>\n

After backlash to the \u201cdefund\u201d movement contributed to dozens of House Democrats losing or facing closer-than-expected races in 2020, the party slowly began changing its tune on policing. While some, like Missouri Congresswoman Cori Bush, have continued their\u00a0calls for<\/a>\u00a0\u201cdismantling\u201d police departments, the White House and Democratic leadership are now saying that they in fact support police and have always supported police \u2013 even accusing Republicans, who spent all of 2020 and 2021 vigorously defending police from attacks by left-wing politicians and news outlets, of not supporting them.<\/p>\n

As Axios\u00a0reported<\/a>\u00a0late last month, Democratic candidates in Ohio, Georgia, Florida, and other states are \u201cspotlighting law enforcement to boost their credibility on fighting crime.\u201d Party strategists are now privately admitting that \u201cthe defund debate damaged Democrats\u2019 reputation on crime,\u201d and many \u201cfear a voter perception that Democrats don\u2019t recognize the problem with violent crime and don\u2019t respect the role police play in keeping communities safe.\u201d<\/p>\n

But as part of their effort to mask their complete reversal of position when it comes to support for police, many Democrats\u2014including Biden himself\u2014have attempted to make the issue of rising crime about guns rather than policing, implying that support for the Second Amendment is incompatible with support for law enforcement.<\/p>\n

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Take, for example, a recent\u00a0ad<\/a>\u00a0aired by a group aligned with Stacey Abrams, the Democratic gubernatorial nominee in Georgia. In the 30-second spot, a man identified as a former Deputy Sheriff accuses incumbent Republican Governor Brian Kemp of \u201cmaking us less safe\u201d for\u00a0signing<\/a>\u00a0a constitutional carry bill into law earlier this year. The ad accuses Kemp of making it \u201ceasier\u201d for criminals to carry loaded guns \u201cin public, at the movies, in church.\u201d The implication is that by signing the law, which allows Georgians who aren\u2019t otherwise prohibited from owning a firearm to concealed carry without submitting to a tedious and sometimes expensive permitting process, Kemp is undermining public safety and making it more difficult for police to do their jobs.<\/p>\n

Notably, however, more than 100 sheriffs have\u00a0endorsed<\/a>\u00a0Kemp\u2019s reelection bid, and the sitting governor has broad support from the law enforcement community. Abrams, who now proclaims to support pay raises for police, has in the past\u00a0called for<\/a>\u00a0\u201creallocating\u201d police resources. Moreover, Abrams still sits on the board of the Marguerite Casey Foundation, a group that has\u00a0supported<\/a>\u00a0\u201cdefunding and abolishing the police.\u201d<\/p>\n

Abrams is far from the only Democrat attempting to employ this strategy. At the federal level, Democrats in Congress \u2013 led by vulnerable incumbents like Abigail Spanberger of Virginia and Josh Gottheimer of New Jersey \u2013 have\u00a0pushed<\/a>\u00a0House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to pass a number of supposed \u201cpolice funding bills\u201d that are intended to lend credence to Democrat claims to support law enforcement. But these efforts have all been\u00a0tied<\/a>\u00a0to greater gun control measures, sending a clear message that Democrats view the two issues as inextricably connected.<\/p>\n

The White House, meanwhile, has introduced a new initiative called the \u201cSafer America Plan,\u201d which purportedly increases funding for law enforcement. Once again, however, support for police is tied to gun control measures. In a\u00a0fact sheet<\/a>\u00a0on the plan released by the White House, Biden calls for requiring \u201cbackground checks for all gun sales\u201d and banning so-called \u201cassault weapons\u201d and high-capacity magazines.<\/p>\n

But as Republicans have long pointed out, Democrats\u2019 assertion that restricting gun ownership will automatically lead to less crime isn\u2019t supported by the facts. As economist John Lott argued in his work\u00a0More Guns, Less Crime<\/em>, empirical evidence actually points to the opposite conclusion. Recent examples, like the shooting at a mall in Greenwood, Indiana, where an armed bystander\u00a0stopped<\/a>\u00a0a mass shooting in progress, also support the idea that responsible gun ownership can be an effective crime deterrent. A similar\u00a0case<\/a>\u00a0occurred in West Virginia in May, when an armed woman stopped a man firing indiscriminately into a crowd at a birthday party. These incidents are just two of\u00a0at least 21<\/a>\u00a0such cases since the start of 2020. As Republicans continue to point out, laws making it more difficult for Americans to own and carry firearms won\u2019t stop criminals from doing so but will stop law-abiding Americans interested in protecting themselves and their families.<\/p>\n

At the same time, even as they work to restrict legal gun ownership, Democrats seem to have largely given up on prosecuting illegal gun ownership. New York City\u2019s \u201cstop and frisk\u201d policy was originally designed in large part to get illegal guns off the street, and was quite successful at doing so \u2013 yet former mayor Bill de Blasio ended the practice anyway. Democrat soft-on-crime prosecutors have also allowed criminals caught with illegal guns back out onto the streets, in some cases to\u00a0comm<\/a>i<\/a>t more gun crimes<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Democrats and the mainstream media, meanwhile, have construed Republican opposition to gun control measures as evidence that the GOP in fact does not support police, attempting to completely flip the script on the popular perception of the two parties\u2019 records on public safety. As American communities continue to suffer the tragic consequences of the left\u2019s two-year war on law enforcement, however, Democrats\u2019 complicity in their suffering will be a difficult memory to erase.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Democrats\u2019 Lame Attempt to Flip the Narrative on Crime: Claiming 2nd Amendment is Anti-Police Ahead of the 2022 midterm elections, with rising violent crime a top concern for voters, the vast majority of Democrats are now working overtime to distance themselves from their prior support for the \u201cDefund the Police\u201d movement. Increasingly, however, it appears … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,9,24,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deceit","category-enemies-foreign-domestic","category-rights","category-rkba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=84204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84205,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84204\/revisions\/84205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=84204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=84204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=84204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}