Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms blames crime increase on GOP’s reopening plan, easy access to guns

[livingston]

Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms says her city is besieged by crime because Republicans in the statehouse jumped the gun on ending Georgia’s COVID-19 restrictions.
Bottoms, a Democrat, told MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle that lax gun laws and young people with too much free time have added to a 50 percent increase in murders from before the pandemic — but she said Gov. Brian Kemp’s controversial April 20, 2020, move to ease lockdown restrictions was also a main culprit.
“Remember in Georgia we were opened up before the rest of the country, even before the CDC said that it was safe for us to open so our night clubs and our bars remained open so we had people traveling here from across the country to party in our city,” Bottoms said during the Friday interview.

The mayor also said the pandemic “left a lot of people battered and bruised, not just physically but also emotionally,” which has led to an increase and personal disputes that were aggravated by easy access to guns.

Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms blames crime increase on GOP’s reopening plan, easy access to guns

Atlanta has seen a surge in crime in 2021, and Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms believes she knows why. She said the state’s move to ease COVID restrictions has been a main reason.

nypost.com

 

[livingston]

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[That_FNG]

HAHA her name is bottoms HAHA.

 

[Jsmegs77]

The jokes just write themselves with that name, don’t they?

All kidding aside, she’s a bloody moron. What the hell does the lifting of restrictions have to do with the rising murder rate? My vote is on the restrictions themselves causing people to crack.

 

[ajoep59]

Is there anything that happens in this country that is not Trump's fault?

 

[TEOTWAWKI inc.]

Statistics are going to be fucked for years. 2020 shouldn't be a data point.

Lack of aggressive state police patrols last year lead to significant reduction in MVA fatalities in my area. Prove me wrong.

 

[Michael]

The mayor also said the pandemic “left a lot of people battered and bruised, not just physically but also emotionally,” which has led to an increase and personal disputes that were aggravated by easy access to guns.

The stupidity is nauseating. People are cracking from being locked in their houses for a year , and this idiot says that keeping them there is going to help.

I wonder how she can see with her head stuck that far up we ass.

 

[S&W Fan]

Bahahahaha another mental defective crack smoker

 

[Saltwater60]

Again it’s Atlanta and it’s been run by demonrats for how many years. Fuck her.

 

[Cooolone]

The mental and emotional derangement prevalent in these liberal progressives is pretty scary, especially because they actually believe their own bullshit!

Simply befuddling...

 

[Acer-m14]

HAHA her name is bottoms HAHA.

sorry just have to LOL ..

 

[Paxal]

Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms says her city is besieged by crime because Republicans in the statehouse jumped the gun on ending Georgia’s COVID-19 restrictions.
Bottoms, a Democrat, told MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle that lax gun laws and young people with too much free time have added to a 50 percent increase in murders from before the pandemic — but she said Gov. Brian Kemp’s controversial April 20, 2020, move to ease lockdown restrictions was also a main culprit.
“Remember in Georgia we were opened up before the rest of the country, even before the CDC said that it was safe for us to open so our night clubs and our bars remained open so we had people traveling here from across the country to party in our city,” Bottoms said during the Friday interview.

The mayor also said the pandemic “left a lot of people battered and bruised, not just physically but also emotionally,” which has led to an increase and personal disputes that were aggravated by easy access to guns.

Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms blames crime increase on GOP’s reopening plan, easy access to guns

Atlanta has seen a surge in crime in 2021, and Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms believes she knows why. She said the state’s move to ease COVID restrictions has been a main reason.

nypost.com

As usual, its never about the people committing the crimes. They are just helpless victims of the system that is out to force them to pull the trigger.

 

[fresch]

Shows what our education system has done. I tell my 3 yr. old granddaughter to "walk it off", now she finishes the saying before I can; crying at my house is down 76.359%.