“America doesn’t have a crime problem,” wrote commentator Daniel Greenfield recently; “it has a Democrat problem.”
At issue is a finding that a mere one percent of United States counties — Democratic areas — account for a whopping 42 percent of our murders.
So it’s no wonder people issue quips such as (from under a Tuesday article of mine), “Just taking guns away from Democrats would reduce shootings by 90%.” If only such gun control actually worked.
But all this illustrates a truth: America really is a very safe country — except for small pockets of violence. While there are demographic reasons for this, too (more on that later), the Democrat link warrants elaboration.
Read the rest here.
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