[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 70 (Thursday, April 28, 2022)]
[House]
[Page H4602]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                   DEMOCRATS' SOFT-ON-CRIME POLICIES

  (Mr. LaMALFA asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LaMALFA. Madam Speaker, crime is soaring under President Biden 
and the Democrats' soft-on-crime policies nationally and in my home 
State of California.
  More police officers were killed in the line of duty in 2021 than in 
any year since 1995. Last year, over a dozen U.S. cities set new 
homicide records. Shootings of police officers have increased 63 
percent compared to this time in 2020.
  Instead of addressing these deadly statistics, some Democrats in blue 
cities want to defund and demonize our police.
  Instead of focusing on dangerous individuals with illegal weapons who 
commit these deadly crimes, President Biden has chosen to attack law-
abiding Americans exercising their Second Amendment rights. He wants 
the ATF to ban privately made firearms, so-called ghost guns, which are 
predominantly a hobbyist option and require more time, tooling, and 
dedication to craftsmanship than most criminals are willing to invest.
  Instead of throwing the books at criminals, they are coming after 
private citizens, even going so far as to call parents at school board 
meetings terrorists.
  Now, they want to introduce legislation that would target law 
enforcement and servicemembers as potential domestic terrorists. This 
is deeply offensive to our men and women in uniform and also goes 
against evidence that terrorist incidents are far more likely to be 
committed against military and law enforcement than by military and law 
enforcement.
  This is wrongheaded, and we must stop this.

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