New York City’s not like San Francisco – it doesn’t have a depraved political class willing to let the city die. It has a tough on crime mayor. But even the toughest mayor can’t do anything about current gun-soaked American life; and the pictures of people bleeding, this morning, on subway platforms … it’s something we’ll have to get used to.
… Biden and his party [need to] counter Republican demagoguery about anarchy in “Democratic cities.” By falsely smearing all Democrats as closet [police] defunders … Republicans hope to obscure their deep complicity in today’s violent crime wave. Conservative pro-gun absolutism is the reason that criminals, street gangs and aspiring mass shooters can get quick and easy access to guns.
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