Gun ownership numbers show people don’t feel safe in their cities
Zachary Faria
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You can try to spin violent crime as a Republican problem all you want, but much like people vote with their feet, they also vote with their wallets. In this case, residents of liberal cities are telling you they don’t feel safe by buying guns at higher rates.
Alex Soros is the son of, and heir to, the $25 billion empire of liberal megadonor George Soros. The Soros name is synonymous with “criminal justice reform” because the Soros family believes criminals should not be punished for crimes because that would be racist. As such, Alex Soros says that murder rates aren’t actually higher in liberal cities that have adopted the soft-on-crime policies he supports.
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This is not true, no matter how many times Democrats try to pretend otherwise. The crime problem is a problem in cities run by Democrats, and it is increasingly a Soros-backed prosecutor problem in some of America’s biggest cities. Indeed, St. Louis is the murder capital of the country and had a Soros-backed prosecutor up until Missouri Republicans began to push her out of office. Charges in St. Louis have more than doubled since she left.
But if looking at crime data doesn’t satisfy your hunger for knowledge on this topic, the gun ownership numbers offer yet more proof. For the first time in two decades, NBC News found that a majority of people live in households with a firearm, up from 42% in 2013 to 52% now. The “heaviest growth” in gun ownership comes from people living in urban areas, and black gun ownership is up 17 percentage points since 2019.
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In other words, since the surge in crime that coincided with the pandemic and the growing number of Soros-backed prosecutors in major U.S. cities, the largest increases in gun ownership came from people living in those cities, especially black people who have to shoulder the consequences of lawlessness in their communities more than anyone else.
It isn’t just the data: The people living in “progressive” cities are telling you exactly what they think about crime on their streets. Alex Soros can spin crime however he likes, but at the end of the day, the people being affected by crime are making it clear just how unsafe they think their soft-on-crime cities are.