When Public Officials Fail to Keep Crime in Check, Citizens Will Arm Themselves, Whether It’s Legal or Not

  When “people do not feel protected by the police,” [Philadelphia DA Larry] Krasner notes, they may “view the risk of being caught by police with an illegal gun as outweighed by the risk of being caught on the street without one.” Before he was elected, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg expressed a similar concern. … Read more