Gun management teams are constant: they don’t need to make it dangerous for criminals to commit crime with increased arrest or conviction charges or that victims would possibly be capable to defend themselves. Here’s a assertion from Brady Gun Management group President Kris Brown, with an analysis of it under hand.
“With at the moment’s actions, Trump has additional undermined and disenfranchised D.C. residents, and made our nation’s capital a militarized zone. To be clear, this is similar Donald Trump who impressed a mob then impotently stood by whereas they attacked the U.S. Capitol within the worst outbreak of mass violence in latest District reminiscence on January 6. He doesn’t care about D.C. or the 700,000 individuals who name it residence.
“Trump’s narrative about D.C. just isn’t based mostly in actuality or in info. Violent crime, together with crimes involving firearms, has fallen precipitously since 2023 and have been at a 30-year low the day the president returned to the Oval Workplace. That fall is straight attributable to latest coverage efforts to cut back violence, together with elevated funding in community-based violence intervention work being carried out by native D.C. residents and organizations, ward by ward. This work was supercharged with funding with the passage of the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act in the course of the Biden-Harris administration – funding that the Trump-Vance administration is now terminating. Restoring this funding would proceed to cut back violent crime extra successfully than federalizing legislation enforcement.
“We can’t enable the president to make use of armed intimidation and overpolicing to additional exploit D.C. residents — who have already got no congressional illustration — and proceed his harmful march to authoritarianism. We can’t enable the president to counsel that federalized police is an acceptable response to any and all challenges; or that federalized police don’t additional endanger the general public, particularly Black and Brown communities who reside and work in or go to D.C. We all know what methods and insurance policies scale back gun crime, and this isn’t it. We name on each public official within the District and across the nation to sentence Trump’s strikes and clarify that self-determination is a bedrock of American authorities from the smallest city council to your complete nation.
“BRADY RESPONDS TO TRUMP’S FEDERAL TAKEOVER OF D.C. LAW ENFORCEMENT AND MOBILIZING NATIONAL GUARD AFTER VOW TO “STOP VIOLENT CRIME”,” Brady Marketing campaign, August 11, 2025.
Is violent crime down in DC? Sure, however is it nonetheless very excessive relative to the remainder of the nation? Clearly additionally sure, each a lot increased than another state or in comparison with the homicide fee in 20 most populous cities. There are additionally most likely numerous issues with the D.C. crime as there have been allegations from the police union that there was stress placed on police to downgrade crimes from felonies to misdemeanors.
So let’s say the crime fee has fallen. Is it at an appropriate degree? If not, why not enhance arrest and conviction charges to cut back crime? Which might be at most 450 patrol officers on obligation at any cut-off date for a inhabitants of about 720,000. Trump added over 800 extra legislation enforcement brokers on obligation the primary night time. The intervention resulted in 66 arrests in the course of the first two nights. Why do gun management advocates suppose that we ought to be upset about doing issues that enhance arrest and prosecution charges?
So right here is the check: will growing deportation of unlawful aliens and elevated legislation enforcement decrease crime or will ending the funding for the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act enhance crime? Does anyone need to take that wager?
