President Joe Biden’s allies are countering claims that his age is hurting his ability to govern. Sen. Chris Murphy said
President Joe Biden signed the Bipartisan Safer in Communities Act into law in June 2022. The law provided $750 million to help states implement"red flag laws" and crisis intervention programs. It also improved background checks and made it a federal offense to traffic guns and to buy guns on someone else’s behalf.
"I worked with on the bipartisan gun bill. He was involved in every step of that process," Murphy, D-Conn., said Feb. 11 onthat Biden signed into law in June 2022 after mass shootings in Buffalo, New York, and Uvalde, Texas. The legislation combined gun safety provisions with mental health and school security resources and marked the first gun control measure from Congress in nearly three decades.
"Guns account for 80-90% of murders in most cities and 77% nationally in 2022, so most of the changes in murder levels are attributable to changes in gun violence," he wrote in an email."I'd guess that whatever percent decline we see in 2023 was almost exclusively driven by guns. In New Orleans, for example, there were 65 fewer fatal shooting incidents in 2023 than 2022 and one less non-gun homicide incident.
"Could it have had the effect of reducing urban homicides? Yes," Morral wrote in an email."Are there other factors likely influencing recent declines in homicide rates? Very likely." "If this law is causing gun homicides to come down, then what happened in these cities? If national legislation is causing the decline, it should be doing it everywhere but it’s not, Piquero said."Could what those monies were used for have influenced some of the trends? Maybe, but it’s virtually impossible to measure a national aggregate change and some law and how it deals with things at the local level.
Criminologists said the law likely helped drive down the figures in 2023, but they added that the drop likely relates to a confluence of factors, including the easing of the pandemic’s social disruptions and the way cities responded to homicide spikes.
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