Commentary
The eruption of mass violent crime over the past weeks—shooters in Uvalde, Texas, in Laguna Woods, California, in Buffalo, New York—evidences a predictable escalation, an inexorable incremental evolution, of an environment, an atmosphere that fails to discourage criminal activity, developed in large part by a new breed of privately financed progressive prosecutors, entrenched in major urban centers from coast to coast.
It’s an atmosphere aggravated by a president who, two days after the May 28, 2022, massacre in Uvalde, issued an executive order, not directed at the perpetrators of crime, but rather limiting police access to military equipment, and otherwise implementing limitations on the effectiveness of the police. Hardly an appropriate response for a nation in crisis, desperately in need of more effective police protection, and of a White House cognizant of the magnitude of domestic insecurity from upsurging crime….