Police officers are being shot nationwide. A young girl in Chicago took two stray bullets to the head and died. Thus far this year, the nation has had 27 mass shootings.
Who or what is to blame? That depends on whom you ask, and sometimes, which news outlet is reporting.
Chicago
An eight-year-old girl was hit by two “stray bullets” in Chicago. The bullets weren’t “stray” like a cat; they were purposely fired. Every indication is that the shooting was gang-related. That didn’t keep local residents from taking to the streets to advocate for “access to mental health care services.” With the exception of Tony Soprano, how many gangsters are seeking a good shink for therapy?
FACT-O-RAMA! As of this writing, 179 people — a 9% rise from 2021 — have been shot in Chicago already this year. Overall, 4,542 were shot in 2021.
Chicago’s leftist mayor, Lori Lightfoot, thanked the girl’s neighbors for “surrounding Melissa’s mother with love as she grieves the loss of her daughter.”
What Lightfoot and her state’s attorney, Kim Foxx, have failed to do is create a situation where a gang-banger might think twice about firing a weapon in the direction of a child. (Word on the street is there is a video showing the gang-related shooter firing his gun even though the young girl was in clear view).
Foxx has long been accused of letting violent felons out of jail, and it’s more than an accusation. It’s been happening for a while now.
FACT-O-RAMA! By mid-2020, Kim Foxx had dropped over 25,000 felony charges, including charges for shootings, murder, and sex crimes.
Mayor Lightfoot is on the same page as her comrade Kathy Hochul; they blame the guns, not the person pulling the trigger or the leftist politicians who go easy on crime.
Just once I’d like to see a Democrat politician say, “Maybe letting criminals out of jail, ditching bail, and defunding the police was a horrible idea.”
Or better yet, blame the criminals.
There is nothing more convenient than an excuse, and leftists offer excuses for minority criminals every chance they get. It’s not the bad guy’s fault — it MUST be illegal guns, poverty, COVID, Trump, or “systemic racism” at fault for the massacre of minorities. Only a leftist could feel sorry for violent felons, even as their crimes result in dead kids of color.
The left needs to understand the following:
- defunding the police, letting criminals out, and doing away with bail — all progressive policies — are getting people killed. Usually minorities;
- BLM is a joke. Giving in to their demands has led to the slaughter of black people;
- guns don’t fire themselves;
- gangbangers don’t need a good shrink, they need to go to prison; and
- making criminals, not their weapons, take responsibility and pay the price for their crimes will keep violent offenders off the streets.
This may not be a popular notion with libs, but bad people need to go to prison. Their crimes, not their skin color, should determine how long they spend in prison.
Also, the voters need to wake up. Voting Democrat is getting people, usually of color, killed at record-setting rates. White libtards vote for Democrats and minority communities pay the price.
I must say, the Democrats are masterful at making their voters hate Republicans even while liberal ideals are getting black people killed in record numbers, and turning blue cities into crime-ridden flea-pits.