let's be real here if you are black and you live in the south side of chicago or the bronx, are any of these things that the left is championing, gun control, defunding the police, systemic racism doing anything to make your teenagers safer on the streets? look around. i think you know the answer. now i'm not telling you that every republican has your best interest at heart. they don't. i'm telling you that those that pretend to care about you all pulling the okey-doke. they are pandering to you, distracting you, dividing us like a permissive parent hoping to be liked, to get your vote, to get their power while you die, while they create a culture of crime. joining me now, victor, senior fellow at the hoover institution. victor, so good to have you on the program as always. why do you think it is that the left, whether or not it's president obama or president biden turns to guns whenever the subject of crime comes up?