The nation has been rocked in recent weeks by two high-profile shootings. Last week a gunman killed 19 students and two teachers at an elementary school in Texas. Fewer than two weeks before that, a racist gunman killed 10 Black people at a grocery store in Buffalo.
Carlson went on to state that authorities in the U.S. are “decriminalizing serious crimes,” and noted a report indicating that Seattle police have de-prioritized investigating rape claims because they are short-staffed. He also decried “open-air drug markets in our cities, and the Biden administration’s decision to include free crack pipes in safe smoking kits.
The host said this is evidence that Democrats aren’t worried about public health when they say they want to impose gun control measures. Rather, he said, Democrats know their rule is illegitimate, so they are trying to disarm the populace: