“I used to travel on the subway from Queens to Manhattan with a rifle,” he said. “Could you imagine doing that today in New York City?”
and a person with half a brain can see there was much less crime back then. that’s how you know they want to take our guns away for reasons other than safety.
It is not the crime rate. The crime rate now, after rising precipitously with more and more gun control, has dropped in half as restrictions on concealed carry have been eliminated and the number of private guns has doubled. Multitudinous reasons have been speculated about for the drop, but the facts make blaming more guns for more crime more and more difficult. The crime rate now is close to what it was in the 1950s.
Many liberal office holders have criminal constituencies who demand that they engage in their depradations without risk. Hence the constant pandering on the matter.