All around us, violent crime is a significant problem and has been since 2020. Numerous news stories have been written about skyrocketing violent crime and about how guns are supposedly the leading cause of death in children. They’re not, of course, but it still makes headlines just the same.
Much of the violence we do have, though, isn’t generalized. It’s not random suburbanites flipping out and killing their neighbors over a dispute. No, it centers largely around our inner cities.
Take Birmingham for example. Four people were killed in a targeted murder-for-hire attack that didn’t care about innocent bystanders. The shooters were likely gang members who couldn’t lawfully own guns–though that didn’t stop some from blaming a lack of gun control for the incident–and that’s an issue.
Why?
The Biden-Harris administration weaponized the ATF soon after taking office, but rather than siccing ATF agents on inner city gang members who are responsible for the majority of the shootings and murders in the country, the ATF was ordered to target law-abiding gun dealers and gun owners instead, most often for simple clerical errors or some minor violation of ATF’s everchanging rules.
Joe Biden has issued more than 40 anti-gun executive orders since becoming president, but not a single one does anything to yank guns from the hands of criminal street gang members.
The ATF claims it’s a participant in Project Safe Neighborhoods, a federal program designed “to reduce gun violence and other violent crime, and to make our neighborhoods safer for everyone.” However, most of the ATF’s investigations occur after-the-fact, after local law enforcement officers who are not afraid to confront armed gangsters make an arrest and discover an illegal conversion switch or some other violation of federal law.
To be clear, most of ATF’s highly touted arrests take place within the comfy confines of their field offices, not on the streets where it matters — where they should be deployed. After all, possession of stolen firearms, conversion switches and possession by a convicted felon are federal crimes and ATF’s responsibility. […]
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