By Gary Bauer
After months of silence, President Biden will deliver a major speech tomorrow on the growing crime wave sweeping the country. It's obvious why Biden is finally addressing this topic. Polling shows that the overwhelming majority of Americans feel less safe and are increasingly alarmed at rising crime in their communities.
But I have zero expectation that Biden will actually do anything to address rising crime rates and growing disrespect for the police. He can't do anything about those issues because he and the left are deeply implicated in the breakdown of law and order.
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki made it clear that Biden will blame it on "gun violence," as if guns discharge by themselves. Some big city mayors say lifting COVID restrictions is responsible for the rise in crime. In other words, if no one is allowed to leave their homes, crime drops.
I wonder if the president realizes that there has been a 40% increase in the number of police officers deliberately murdered in the first six months of this year. Another police officer was murdered in the line of duty in Colorado yesterday.
Radical leftists and their liberal media allies have fed our country a steady diet of anti-police rhetoric. Morale among law enforcement officers is in the tank. Retirements are up and recruiting is down. Words matter. Policies matter.
There's another reason why Biden and the left have no credibility on lawlessness. He is personally responsible for the lawlessness taking place every day on our southern border.
The border is increasingly controlled by international drug cartels, gangs like MS-13, human traffickers and illegal immigrants who are pouring into our country by the hundreds of thousands every month because Joe Biden refuses to enforce the law and secure our border.
Biden's open border policies are guaranteeing that more crime is coming to your city and state. Catch and release which is fine in fishing, but terrible when it comes to border security and the security of our communities.
So, Joe Biden will make his speech, crafted for him by the wordsmiths at the White House. But nothing he says or does will have any impact on the crime ravaging your neighborhood, your schools and your city streets.
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