{"id":539290,"date":"2021-05-24T22:35:19","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T02:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=539290"},"modified":"2021-05-24T22:35:20","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T02:35:20","slug":"psaki-dodges-question-on-soaring-crime-rates-blames-guns-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/psaki-dodges-question-on-soaring-crime-rates-blames-guns-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Psaki Dodges Question On Soaring Crime Rates, Blames \u2018Guns Problem\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpsaki-dodges-question-on-soaring-crime-rates-blames-guns-problem%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=539290&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/psaki-israel-e1621270778373.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<aside id=\"right1forarticles\">\n<\/aside>\n<div id=\"ob-read-more-selector\" readability=\"36.902104032729\">\n<p>White House press secretary Jen Psaki said \u201cthere is a guns problem\u201d when asked about an uptick in violent crimes during a press briefing Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis past weekend there were more than a dozen mass shootings across this country. 4000 more people [were] shot and killed by guns in 2020 compared to the year before. Is there a crime problem in this country?,\u201d a reporter asked Psaki.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, I would say certainly there is a guns problem. And that\u2019s something the president would say,\u201d Psaki replied.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"10.519480519481\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Actually in awe of how Jen Psaki spins the uptick in violence in the last year as a \u201cGUNS PROBLEM\u201d and not a crime problem.<\/p>\n<p>Are we really just going to pretend there weren\u2019t riots every night and complete lawlessness over the summer? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/J2hcM0HxcA\">pic.twitter.com\/J2hcM0HxcA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Caleb Hull (@CalebJHull) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CalebJHull\/status\/1396867303468412928?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 24, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Psaki conceded that \u201cviolence is an issue\u201d in some local communities, adding that <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/20\/department-of-justice-atf-leaked-document-ban-ghost-guns\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">President Joe Biden<\/a>\u2018s administration\u2019s decision to increase funding for the so-called \u201ccommunity violence prevention programs\u201d aims to address the violence epidemic. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/03\/biden-goes-all-in-on-calls-for-extreme-gun-control\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED:&nbsp;Biden Goes All In On Calls For Extreme Gun Control)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Minneapolis City Council voted December 2020 to <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/12\/10\/minneapolis-city-council-police-department-funding\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">re-allocate $7.7 million<\/a> from the police department to violence prevention and community programs. Violent crimes in Minneapolis grew by 21% in 2020 from the year before, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usnews.com\/news\/best-states\/minnesota\/articles\/2021-02-07\/report-minneapolis-violent-crime-increased-by-21-in-2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according<\/a> to U.S. News &amp; World Report.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBetween mass shootings \u2026 that get a lot of attention \u2026 there are hundreds of thousands people who lose their lives,\u201d Psaki added. \u201cThat\u2019s one of the reasons the president will continue to advocate for the Senate passing universal background checks, but also advocate for action in states.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White House press secretary Jen Psaki said \u201cthere is a guns problem\u201d when asked about an uptick in violent crimes during a press briefing Monday. \u201cThis past weekend &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2312902,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/psaki-israel-e1621270778373.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Psaki Dodges Question On Soaring Crime Rates, Blames \u2018Guns Problem\u2019","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-539290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/psaki-israel-e1621270778373.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Psaki Dodges Question On Soaring Crime Rates, Blames \u2018Guns Problem\u2019","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=539290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/539290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2312902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=539290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=539290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=539290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}