Kamala Harris wants to tackle crime head-on. No wonder Americans don't feel safe

Isn't it strange that the mass shootings in Memphis, Philadelphia and Baltimore have received no recognition from the Vice President?

In a rare departure from her carefully crafted “script,” Vice President Kamala Harris commented on the tragic school shooting in Winder, Georgia, this week that left four people dead and nine hospitalized.

At her campaign rally in New Hampshire, Harris called the incident a “senseless tragedy” and further lamented that students “must live in fear that a shooter will break down the classroom door” and that “parents must send their children to school worrying about whether or not their child will come home alive.”

In an appropriately angry tone, Harris pleaded with the crowd: “We have to stop this.”

The “it”? That would be “this epidemic of gun violence in our country,” to use Harris' words.

Harris is right to express concern about school shootings, but her reference to America's “gun violence epidemic” rings hollow and is in stark contrast to the way her allies in the media have responded to concerns raised by Republicans on the same issue as part of the larger crime debate.

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Rafael Mangual is a Nick Ohnell Fellow and research director of the Policing and Public Safety Initiative at the Manhattan Institute and co-editor of City Journal. He is also the author of (In)justice in criminal law: What goes wrong with the demand for release from prisons and police forces and who is most harmed by it.

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