美国总统乔·拜登周三宣布了一系列针对中国的行动不断上升的枪支暴力据白宫称，随着凶杀率上升进入夏季共和党人为此责怪他。
他在讲话开始时说，暴力犯罪的上升可以追溯到去年，也就是他上任之前。
“自一年多前大流行开始以来，这一数字急剧上升。历史上，夏季犯罪率会上升。随着我们从这场流行病中走出来，随着国家再次开放，传统的夏季高峰可能会比平时更加明显，”他说。
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2021年6月23日，美国总统乔·拜登在华盛顿白宫谈论犯罪预防。
他制定了一个“综合战略”，将针对违法枪支经销商，为警察部门提供枪支犯罪执法的联邦资源，并允许社区重新利用数百万美元的联邦资金冠状病毒被证明可以防止枪支暴力的项目的救济资金。
这样做，拜登寻求在共和党的攻击中站稳脚跟暴力犯罪增加在美国城市，其中许多是由民主党人管理。
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枪支暴力驱使大部分的增长最近，拜登从这个角度阐述了这个问题，不像共和党人，他们将高杀人率归咎于民主党人警察经费去年被砍掉了。
乔·雷德尔/盖蒂影像公司
2021年6月16日，迈阿密，人们在枪支暴力和平游行中走在一起。
事实上，在去年的种族正义抗议中，要求“解散警察”相当于在一些城市适度削减资金，而凶杀案却是如此遍布全国，根据美联社。
“这不应该是一个红色或蓝色的问题，”拜登说。“这是美国的问题。”
在拜登反击共和党人无情的攻击之前，白宫新闻秘书珍·普萨基(Jen Psaki)周二指出，暴力犯罪不仅“在过去18个月”有所上升，而且“在过去五年左右”也有所上升。
拜登政府的一名高级官员周二表示，总统打算“给州和地方官员一些工具”，帮助他们减少枪支犯罪。
政府将允许社区将他们收到的部分资金作为今年春天1.9万亿美元的新冠肺炎救助法案的一部分用于打击枪支犯罪，比如投资青少年暑期就业项目;雇用更多的警察和法院人员;枪支暴力执法支出;支付更多的护士，顾问和社会工作者。
拜登政府的高级官员表示，这笔钱可能来自3月份签署成为法律的救助法案中包含的3500亿美元的州和地方资金，在某些情况下，还可能来自该法案为学校预留的1220亿美元。
其他措施包括对违法枪支经销商建立“零容忍”政策;将联邦执法官员安插在地方警察部门;根据白宫的说法，雇佣更多以前被监禁的人在联邦政府工作。
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司法部长梅里克·加兰在华盛顿白宫Pre旁边发表讲话
拜登和司法部长梅里克·加兰周三在发表讲话前会见了几位市长、倡导者和一名警察局长。
周二，司法部还宣布，将向暴力犯罪水平不断上升的五个美国城市发起枪支贩运“打击力量”，执法官员希望在这些城市打击被盗和非法购买的枪支。
但是白宫一直在努力解释是什么促使总统本周特别关注犯罪问题——相反，普萨基发表了他的讲话，作为他以前支持枪支管制措施和社区警务的延续。
尽管白宫吹捧拜登在监管难以追踪的“幽灵枪”和使手枪更像步枪的配件方面采取的有限措施，但枪支管制倡导者坚持认为，真正的行动需要在国会进行。
在国会山，民主党领导的众议院通过了两项法案，将扩大和加强对枪支购买背景调查的使用。但由于参议院共和党人的反对，这些措施已经停止。
与此同时，总统利用他的讲坛倡导枪支立法的进步，但他优先考虑其他问题冠状病毒大流行，重建经济，并通过一项重大的基础设施一揽子计划。
在竞选过程中，拜登对枪支做出了更大的承诺，但他尚未兑现，包括禁止进口攻击性武器。
约翰·明奇洛/美联社档案
2020年10月14日，纽约，抗议者在已故乔治·弗洛伊德的集会上要求警察改革。
枪支是全国凶杀率上升的核心。尽管其他类型的犯罪变得越来越不常见，但杀人数量却大幅上升。
根据美国司法部今年早些时候发布的一项研究，2020年的凶杀案比前一年增加了30%新冠肺炎和刑事司法全国委员会。
2021年前三个月，凶杀案数量比2020年同期增加了24%，比2019年初增加了49%。研究人员说。
研究发现，与2019年相比，2020年其他暴力犯罪，如严重袭击和持枪袭击，略有增加，但住宅盗窃等非暴力犯罪的数量有所下降。
去年还出现了一系列可能影响转移率的独特情况，比如警察因担心感染新冠肺炎病毒而撤退，或者犯罪分子利用抗议警察杀人的机会。
周三，在他结束了他的正式讲话后，一名记者问道，“总统先生，你还希望国会能通过另一项武器禁令吗?
“我从不放弃希望，”他回答。
Biden unveils strategy to stop gun crime as summer violence spikes
President Joe Biden on Wednesday announced a range of actions targetingrising gun violence, according to the White House, as homicide rates jump headinginto the summer months-- and Republicans blame him for it.
He began his remarks by saying the rise in violent crime dates back to last year, before he took office.
"It has spiked since the start of the pandemic over a year ago. Crime historically rises during the summer. And as we emerge from this pandemic with the country opening back up again, the traditional summer spike may even be more pronounced than it usually would be," he said.
He laid out a "comprehensive strategy" that will target law-breaking gun dealers, provide federal resources to police departments for gun-crime enforcement and allow communities to repurpose millions of dollars of federalcoronavirusrelief funding for programs proven to prevent gun violence.
In doing so, Biden is seeking to establish his footing amid GOP attacks overincreased violent crimein American cities,many of which arerun by Democrats.
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Gun violence has drivenmuch of that increaserecently and Biden framed the issue through that prism -- unlike Republicans, who blame high homicide rates on Democrats who called forpolice fundingto be cut last year.
In reality, demands to "defund the police" amid last year's racial justice protests amounted to modest funding reductions in some cities, while homicides haverisen across the country, according tothe Associated Press.
"This shouldn't be a red or blue issue," Biden said. "It's an American issue."
Before Biden pushed back against relentless Republican attacks that he's to blame, White House press secretary Jen Psaki noted Tuesday that violent crime has gone up not just "over the last 18 months" but "over the last five years or so."
The president intends to "give state and local officials a number of tools" to help them reduce gun crime, a senior Biden administration official said Tuesday.
The administration will allow communities to spend some of the funding they received as part of this spring's $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill funding to combat gun crime, such as investing in summer jobs programs for youths; hiring more police officers and court personnel; spending on gun-violence enforcement; and paying for more nurses, counselors and social workers.
The money could come from the $350 billion in state and local funding included in the relief bill signed into law in March, and in some cases from the $122 billion the bill set aside for schools, according to senior Biden administration officials.
Other measures include establishing a "zero-tolerance" policy for gun dealers who break the law; embedding federal law enforcement officials with local police departments; and hiring more formerly incarcerated people for jobs in the federal government, according to the White House.
Biden and Attorney General Merrick Garland met with several mayors, advocates and a police chief on Wednesday before making their remarks.
On Tuesday, the Justice Department also announced it was launching gun trafficking "strike forces" to five U.S. cities experiencing rising violent crime levels where law enforcement officials hope to crack down on stolen and illegally purchased firearms.
But the White House has struggled to explain what prompted the president to focus on crime this week in particular -- with Psaki presenting his remarks, instead, as a continuation of his previous support for gun control measures and community policing.
Even as the White House touts the limited steps Biden has taken to regulate hard-to-track "ghost guns" and accessories that make pistols more like rifles, gun-control advocates maintain that real action needs to take place in Congress.
On Capitol Hill, the Democratic-led House of Representatives passed two bills that would expand and strengthen the use of background checks for firearms purchases. But the measures have stalled amid Republican opposition in the Senate.
The president, meanwhile, has used his bully pulpit to advocate for legislative progress on guns, but he has prioritized other issues: thecoronaviruspandemic, rebuilding the economy and passing a major infrastructure package.
On the campaign trail, Biden made bigger promises on guns on which he has yet to follow through, including banning the importation of assault weapons.
Guns are at the center of rising homicide rates nationwide. The number of killings has jumped even as other types of crime are becoming less common.
Homicides spiked by 30% in 2020 compared to the year before, according to a study released earlier this year by theNational Commission on COVID-19 and Criminal Justice.
And in the first three months of 2021, the number of homicides increased by 24% compared to the same period in 2020 and by 49% compared to the start of 2019,the researchers said.
While other violent crimes, like aggravated assaults and gun assaults, saw modest increases in 2020 compared to 2019, the number of non-violent crimes like residential burglaries dropped, the study found.
Last year also presented a unique variety of circumstances that could have impacted the shifting rates, such as police officers pulling back over fears of contracting COVID-19 or criminals taking advantage of protests over police killings.
After he concluded his formal remarks Wednesday, a reporter asked, "Mister President, are you still holding out hope that Congress can pass another weapons ban?
"I never give up hope," he answered.
