One of those nutty gun-grabbing leftists was heard to note on social media recently that the number of gun deaths in New Hampshire went up last year. She left out a critical point. Yes, primarily in Democrat-run cities. The same places that are responsible for the majority of violent crime across the US.
New Hampshire is still one of the safest places in the nation every year. This suggests the cure is not more gun laws, it’s either less urbanization, fewer Democrats, or just fewer Democrats running urban areas.
Their dopey ideas get good people killed.
But urbanization creates a demographic dependence on the municipalities and their “services.” The sort of people drawn to that tend to vote for Democrats. In places like Baltimore, Detroit, San Francisco, LA, Seattle, (Manchester and Nashua). Higher crime, less efficient government, more corruption, and more homelessness.
The Left coast leads the way but New Hampshire is not immune. We have homelessness, most of it in our Democrat run cities. Places where even a booming economy fails to adequately penetrate the pall of liberal leadership.
New Hampshire’s economy is the best in the Northeast despite Democrat efforts to cobble it. But it is having some impact. According to HUD homelessness declined in New Hampshire year over year from 2018 to 2019.
A U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development report says nearly 1,400 people experienced homelessness on a single night in January 2019, a decrease of 3.7 percent from 2018.
The report says most of that group were found in emergency shelters or transitional housing programs, while nearly 150 people were unsheltered.
HUD Secretary Ben Carson certified the report last month. The statistics also showed that the number of families with children experiencing homelessness decreased 5 percent from 2018.
Homelessness among veterans, which has been decreasing since 2010, decreased 21 percent from 2018 in New Hampshire.
This is great news we can easily make better. Stop electing Democrats or supporting their destructive agenda.
The majority of all violent crime in America happens in places where Democrats have passed all the anti-gun bills the New Hampshire Left is pushing here. This holds true for their other priorities as well.
Higher taxes, more regulation, and more government are not the answer. Democrat-run states and cities prove that. Stop electing them and get government out of the way and the private sector and private non-profits will solve our problems without all the political nonsense and regulatory interference.
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