Laws & Rights
Crimenesia: Not an Anti-Gun State, Just an Anti-Gun State of Mind

I bet Lori Lightfoot’s origin story involves a desperate police chase and a vat of mutagenic chemicals. (Image courtesy NSSF; snotty caption courtesy me.)
Crimenesia isn’t a country in Europe (although it could be)…
Crimenesia is a state of mind. It’s the state of mind that so many of America’s big-city mayors call home, a permanent ZIP code in which none of the things that happened under their tenure were their fault. A classic case in point is failed Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot, who is in fact a member of genus Homo sapiens ( and not a landlubbing grouper, no matter what it looks like). In Crimenesia, there was no crime wave during Lightfoot’s term, and also that crime wave didn’t happen the way you remember it, and also that crime wave wasn’t a big deal, and also that she didn’t mean for there to be a big crime wave, and finally, that the citizens of Chicago deserved it. Isn’t that neat? For a further travelogue in the wild, unexplored, exciting lands of Crimenesia, we’re turning it over to the National Shooting Sports Foundation‘s Larry Keane. Take it away, Larry!
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OUSTED MAYOR LIGHTFOOTโS SUDDEN CRIME AMNESIA
Next month, Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot will no longer have a city office. Judging by her advice to other Democratic mayors on the current crime wave afflicting Americaโs largest cities, sheโs already living in a different galaxy far, far away.
Mayor Lightfootโs tenure has seen among the worst criminal and gang violence in memory, including waves of illegal firearm misuse and countless shooting tragedies. During her run as the cityโs top official, she cast blame on others, derided law enforcement leaders and even proposedย cutting police funding by $80 million, before demanding federal law enforcement assistance. As a clear rebuke of that failed leadership, Mayor Lightfoot will no longer be mayor next month โ voters overwhelmingly rejected her bid for reelection.
Her abysmal time as the cityโs leader didnโt seem to preclude the mayor fromย joiningย a few colleagues in Washington, D.C., to discuss crime, a topic on which they have troublesome records.
Selective Amnesia
Mayor Lightfoot flew halfway across the country to participate in the African American Mayors Association Conference in Washington, D.C., for aย โfireside chat.โย Joining her on stage were Los Angeles Mayor Barbara Lee, New York City Mayor Eric Adams and Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner.
During the conversation, Mayor Lightfoot uttered something that likely caused jaws to drop 700 miles back in the Second City. โAs Democrats, if we do not speak the truth about violent crime in our cities, we will be the worse for it,โ Lightfootย toldย conference attendees.
Mayor Lightfoot, of course, has gone out of her way to speak anything but the truth when it comes to Chicagoโs crime surge.
Sheย infamously cursedย at Chicago Alderman Raymond Lopez when he dared criticize her for inaction on crime. On a conference call, Alderman Lopez worried about spreading crime into his neighborhoods and demanded answers about the mayorโs crime solution. โI want answers,โ he stated.
โYouโre a hundred percent, I think youโre one-hundred percent full of sh*t is what I think. If you think that weโre not ready and will stand by and let the neighborhood go upโฆthere is nothing intelligent I can say to you,โ the mayor shot back.
It wasnโt just thatย 2020 phone call. Itโs a pattern with the mayor. That same year, Chicago leadership predicted Memorial Day violence with crime and gang activity. The mayor assembled gun control groups and the Chicago Police Department to double efforts to curb gun crimes ahead of the long holiday weekend. The result? The deadliest holiday weekend in five years. Mayor Lightfootย passed the buck, dodged blame and announced, โWhatever the plan was, it didnโt work.โ
The next year, Mayor Lightfoot got in a publicย back-and-forthย with Cook County District Attorney Kim Foxx when several gang members were let off the hook and not charged for a criminal shooting in broad daylight, despite video evidence. More blame-casting and deflection of the truth, all while Chicago residents witnessedย more murders in their city under Mayor Lightfoot since theย 1996.
Mayor Lightfoot,ย having already been overwhelmingly rejectedย by Chicago voters because of the cityโs rampant crime problem, should keep her comments to herself and go quietly.
Los Angeles Lunacy
Mayor Lightfoot wasnโt alone on stage. The other mayoral participants should have some self-awareness too when it comes to crime in their cities and speaking truth to it.
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass knows about crime. Her house was burglarized and it was revealed thatย two firearms were stolenย from the home. A mayoral candidate at the time, Bass had said she didnโt know how they were stolen because they were โsafely and securely storedโ at the time. No other items were taken.
Los Angelenos have suffered through enough of the cityโs crime plague but still must live with Georgeย Soros-backed District Attorney George Gascon, whoย repeatedly liesย about the severity of criminal threats in the city. Hisย soft-on-crime policies repeatedly make newsย for putting more citizens in danger of violent criminals.
If one clear example was needed to demonstrate how โspeaking the truth about violent crimeโ were needed, Los Angeles citizens were told byย press releaseย to โcooperate and complyโ if they found themselves as the victim in a crime.
New York, New York
New York City Mayor Eric Adams was elected on a message of getting tough on criminals and even telling voters heโd forego armed security and instead carry his own firearm.
Heโs failed in those regards and New York City residents still place the fear of violent crime at the top of their concerns. Instead of getting tough on crime, Mayor Adams has instead parroted Michael Bloomberg gun control talking points. At a โmajorโ press event on crime, instead of announcing more police on the streets or efforts to get tough on criminals, the mayor told residents the crime situation in the city was dire.
โWe should be very afraid. Iโm very concerned,โ the mayorย saidย about the prospect of law-abiding New Yorkers carrying firearms for their own protection, never mind the criminals who already break the law and do so.
According to the New York Post, more than 70 percent of New Yorkers voiced theirย fearย of becoming a victim of violent crime.
The mayors on stage talking about crime in their cities need to look in the mirror and listen to their bosses โ the voters of their cities. Their soft-on-crime, gun control approaches that restrict rights of law-abiding citizens donโt make their cities safer. Thatโs not speaking the truth on violent crime. Itโs ignoring it.
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