Former Detroit Police Chief James Craig has come out in the wake of Biden’s gun control initiatives that the country has a criminal problem, not a gun problem.
From National Review:
Amid President Biden’s pursuit of sweeping gun-control legislation to curb mass shootings and gun violence, former Detroit police chief James Craig said he believes the real culprit is not guns, but criminals.
“We don’t have a gun problem in America. What we have is a criminal problem. . . Criminals don’t follow the law. They’re going to get guns, so what do we want to focus on? Getting guns from law-abiding citizens?. . . It’s not about guns; it’s about criminals who have guns, and they don’t get the guns legally. That’s the bottom line,” Craig said during a recent interview with Fox News’s The Next Revolution.
He suggested that many attempts at police reform policy have neglected the people on the front lines wearing the badge and have opened a vacuum for criminal activity.
“Conveniently, a lot of the issues are left out, and I’ve seen this: Criminals are emboldened. You talk about bail reform; it’s a miserable failure,” Craig continued. “We have to start supporting the men and women who do the tough job.”
The Biden Administration has been pushing hard to persuade the public that the violent crime wave going on is the result of gun violence not the result of poor policy decisions and a year of defund the police movements.
Jen Psaki said in a recent press briefing that the Biden Administration sees violent crime as being derived from gun violence. If this is representative of the administration that would mean that they honestly believe without guns there would be little to no violent crime in the country. This take on the issue of crime is concerning because it puts the implements of crime in the sights of law enforcement and public policy instead of criminals.
As for why a former police chief is making a public comment about the Administration’s gun control aims, rumor has it that former Detroit police chief James Craig might run for governor of Michigan in an attempt to oust Gretchen Whitmer, the state’s current governor.
James Craig has also commented on 2A matters in the past. Craig once told residents of Detroit to buy guns as a way of protecting themselves and reducing levels of crime in the city.
