Posted on | October 30, 2025 | No Comments
Even if you believed everything else that the Democratic Party supports — Keynesian economics, foreign policy, LGBTQ agenda, whatever — their stance on criminal justice and law enforcement ought to be enough to make you think twice about ever voting for any Democrat:
Thirty-one-year-old Khyre Holbert — a convicted felon whose 20-year crack cocaine and firearm-possession sentence was commuted by former President Joe Biden at the end of his term — was slapped with a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition charge following his alleged participation in a shooting in Omaha, Nebraska.
Holbert was arrested on October 4 after allegedly participating in the shooting, which resulted in a 28-year-old victim being transferred to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. Given this is the complaint stage, additional charges could still be filed. Holbert could face a maximum of fifteen years in prison on the felony firearm possession charges alone.
The criminal complaint against Holbert . . . states that his fingerprints were found on the gun that police believe was used in the shooting.
The new charge against Holbert comes amid renewed scrutiny of Biden’s controversial pardons and sentence commutations near the end of his term, as well as his extensive use of the autopen, which Congressional Republicans are now probing.
“The Biden Administration’s last-minute commutations were not only a cruel blow to victims’ families, but also a fundamental failure to hold criminals accountable,” Attorney General Pam Bondi said . . . “This tragic case proves that crime must be met with consequences, not weakness. Our prosecutors in Nebraska are doing the job that the prior administration refused to do.”
Holbert’s most recent arrest is just the latest in a long criminal history. On November 30, 2018, he was sentenced to 20 years in prison in Nebraska on crack distribution charges and multiple firearm charges. Following his commutation at the end of the Biden administration, Holbert was released from the Federal Bureau of Prisons custody in May 2025. He began three years of supervision with the U.S. Probation and Pretrial Services Office, District of Nebraska, on May 30. . . .
Pause there for a second. Simple arithmetic — May 30 to October 4 — tells you that Khyre Holbert was on the street for barely four months (127 days) between the time he got out of prison and the time he was arrested again as a felon in possession of a firearm, accused in connection with a drive-by shooting. Khyre Holbert has been a drug-dealing gang banger since he was a juvenile, and here are some more relevant facts:
According to the criminal complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska, Biden’s commutation of Holbert’s sentence followed serious “objections of the United States Attorney’s Office, District of Nebraska, due in part to his gang affiliation and substantial criminal history.”
According to Justice Department officials, “the gun used in the Omaha shooting was found to have been discharged in two other separate criminal incidents that occurred in Omaha, including a homicide that occurred on June 22, 2025, and a felony assault in which several unknown assailants shot at a man in his vehicle on June 23, 2025.”
Whoa! That certainly would seem to shorten the timeline of Holbert’s return to his lifelong criminal habits. The same gun that had Holbert’s fingerprints after the Omaha shooting for which he was arrested was also connected to a homicide on June 22 — just three weeks after Holbert got sprung because of Joe Biden’s autopen. Is the point here obvious enough?
Probably regular readers have become tired of my repeating the same lectures about recidivism rates and the criminal class. There are some people who are just constantly perpetrating crime — they wake up in the morning and commit half a dozen felonies before their first cup of coffee — and they will keep perpetrating until the day they die. In the interest of public safety, habitual criminals like that need to be put behind bars and kept there. But you’ve heard this before.
What the case of Khyre Holbert illustrates is the bogusness of any claim by Democrats to care about “gun violence.” If they really wanted to prevent shootings, certainly Democrats would not be turning loose dangerous gang bangers like this guy who had been terrorizing Omaha for years before he was sentenced to federal prison. Nothing is more predictive of gun violence than a prior history of gun violence, and if Democrats were really sincere about this issue, they would insist on maximum sentences for felons arrested in possession of firearms.
But that’s not what we see, is it? No, not at all. In any jurisdiction controlled by Democrats, leniency toward gun crimes is the policy, because criminals are a core constituency of the Democratic Party.
Every time you hear some Democrat talk about the alleged need for new “common sense gun laws,” ask yourself: Why are Democrats against enforcing the gun laws that are already on the books? What is the point of passing new gun laws, when the most basic sort of public safety measure — locking up felons apprehended in possession of firearms — is not being enforced by prosecutors and judges? Biden sicced the ATF on any mom-and-pop firearms dealer who got some paperwork wrong, and meanwhile was turning loose dangerous gang-bangers like Khyre Holbert. What this exemplifies is the Democratic Party’s commitment to what the late Sam Francis was the first to identify as anarcho-tyranny: Law-abiding citizens are harassed by a proliferation of bureaucratic make-work laws, while habitual criminals are allowed to wreak havoc.
“Anarcho-tyranny is a social condition characterized by a combination of anarchy and tyranny, where the government is simultaneously ineffective at enforcing laws against criminal behavior and overly oppressive against law-abiding citizens.” https://t.co/pYx7dxKHLA pic.twitter.com/bD6yMKL4nq
— Marc Andreessen ?? (@pmarca) August 8, 2024
It is no surprise, then, that we see Democrats on the verge of electing Zohran Mamdani as the mayor of New York City. Mamdani, whose anti-police rhetoric was widely known, got 56% of the vote in the Democratic mayoral primary, in a city where Kamala Harris last year got 75% of the vote in the presidential election. The same pattern has been replicated in many other cities, large and small, where Democrats are in control — from Baltimore to Portland, from Houston to Detroit, the story has become sadly familiar. Democrats don’t want to put dangerous criminals in prison, because the criminals are their voters. To paraphrase the Gettysburg Address, the Democratic Party is dedicated to government of the criminals, by the criminals, for the criminals.
Republicans should try mentioning this fact to voters.
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