Posted on 06/21/2021 12:02:49 AM PDT by knighthawk
Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms blamed the city's crime wave on state Republicans lifting COVID-19 restrictions too early and lax gun laws.
In an interview with MSNBC's Stephanie Ruhle on Friday, the mayor attributed a 50 percent increase in homicides, in part, to lax gun laws, teenagers having too much free time on their hands and the state lifting its COVID-19 restrictions back in April.
'Remember, in Georgia, we were opened up before the rest of the country, even before the CDC said that it was safe for us to open,' Bottoms explained to Ruhle.
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I get a kick out of how pissed off the left gets at open economies, happy people enjoying restaurants, concerts and other activities and lots of mask-free faces.
Pick a mayor in any blue city, none of them take responsibility for their policies and actions.
5.56mm
If they did they would resign, lose pay, power and benefits. And that's not gonna happen, it's the reason they ran for office.
She's doing a mighty poor job of it. Way too many Atlantans emigrating to FL.
On the way of our honeymoon we stayed in the Peachtree Plaza Hotel, the big glass cylinder.
Felt no problem back in 1979.
!985 we went to Atlanta Underground and thought we would be bar b qued.
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