
Washington, D.C., residents have been in an absurd situation for decades. The District has done all it can to disarm law-abiding residents and, despite the Second Amendment wins at the U.S. Supreme Court in D.C. v. Heller (2008) and NYSRPA v. Bruen (2022), D.C. has continued to make it as difficult as possible for the law-abiding to own and carry firearms for self-defense.
Meanwhile, policies in D.C. allowed criminals to prey on the populace. Then, as the number of carjackings, murders and muggings rose, officials in D.C. obscured the numbers and blamed law-abiding gun owners and our freedom for the violent crime.
Such is why President Donald Trump (R) declared a crime emergency in our nation's capital; however, instead of acknowledging the problem, politicians on the Left quickly claimed that the crime problem was not serious enough to justify the move.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D) even said, "I walk around all the time. I wake up early in the morning … . And I feel perfectly safe." Schumer also claimed that Republicans who voice concerns about safety are "full of it."
The trouble for disingenuous politicians like Schumer is the facts are clear.
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