Biden’s Delusions About Crime
His “solution” is to treat the law-abiding as criminals.
by George Neumayr
June 23, 2021, 11:55 PM
The recent spike in violent crime across the country is due not to a lack of “gun control” but to a lack of self-control. But the moral and cultural causes of crime never figure into the analysis of the Democrats. They studiously ignore those causes or make them worse by sabotaging the institutions of self-government.
Modern liberalism’s toxic blend of totalitarianism and moral relativism lends itself to a society of “gun control” without self-control. In such a society, the first instinct of liberal politicians is to propose new laws, even as they prevent the police from enforcing old ones. “Gun control” means greater and greater government control.
Joe Biden presides over a party that favors more and more laws and less and less policing. The Democrats increasingly want criminals set free and the law-abiding treated as criminals. Biden has naturally obliged his base, advancing laws and executive actions that would render the blameless exercise of the Second Amendment illegal. We are witnessing the death of the Second Amendment by a thousand cuts.
The thrust of Biden’s “crime-fighting” plan rolled out on Wednesday is not to fight crime but to cast a constitutional freedom as criminal. He speaks not of violent criminals but of “gun violence.” His plan to “end it” is really just a plan to end legal gun ownership.
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