Would you believe that violent crime has been declining in the US since about 1990? I don't trust the government or law enforcement, but one of they few things they seem pretty honest about here is FBI crime data. The Clinton-era gun ban did not cause the decline, because it was imposed after the trend began, and the trend continues after the ban ended. It continued to taper off even with the post-9/11 economic crisis and war propaganda, and has remained fairly stable in spite of economic crisis and civil unrest. Only the reporting has changed.

Migration is another issue blown way out of proportion by people with an axe to grind. Only empires at the tipping point or beyond truly fear poor people coming in. Meanwhile, the drug prohibition and enforcement is what fuels gang violence more than anything else, and the solution is freedom, not border walls and more cops.