Gun Deaths, Sacramento and Dallas
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Growing up in Southwestern PA, there was none. My circle was probably 70% white, 20% black, and 10% Asian. The only conversations about race were jokes based on the stereotypes…
When I moved to DC? Holy hell… There is an entire industry here based on being black. I mean, this is how they make their living and a good living it is. Unfortunately, it’s at the cost of their black neighbors. I’ve done quite a bit of work down at the Duke Ellington School of the Arts, and have been inspired by so many of those kids and their teachers, but disgusted at the same time by these groups that you see are trying to radicalize these kids.
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CNN attempts to make sense of the tragedy:
https://www.cnn.com/2022/04/05/us/sacramento-california-shooting-tuesday/index.html
Entirely due to guns, nothing to do with culture.
Some strange attempt at blaming the police for not stopping it, too. That's particularly rich:
During an emotional vigil Monday night, members of the Sacramento community and officials expressed frustration with repeated instances of gun violence in the city and called for action to prevent more shootings.
“The last time we had a mass shooting we did the same thing,” said one speaker who did not share his name but identified himself as a cousin of one of the victims. “Sat out here, held up our candles, talk about the police are here for us now, the public officials are here for us now.”
“How are they here for us when we are sitting doing the same damn thing again? The same thing,” he said. “So who’s going to stop it?”
I guess the implication is that those communities are clamoring for, what, more gun laws? I mean, I get that high status white people who've never interacted with a low status black person are clamoring for more gun laws, but what about those low status black communities, what do they want?
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@Axtremus said in Gun Deaths, Sacramento and Dallas:
Shooting in downtown Sacramento, 6 deaths 10 injuries:
The man arrested for possessing a machine gun at the scene of Sunday’s deadly shooting in Sacramento was allowed to leave prison in February despite opposition from the county’s district attorney to his early release.
Smiley Martin, 27, was convicted in 2018 and was serving a 10-year sentence for domestic violence and assault when he was released.He was arrested Tuesday morning at a Sacramento hospital on charges of being a felon in possession of a firearm and possession of a stolen handgun that was converted to be a fully automatic weapon.
Police said he was injured in a gun battle in downtown Sacramento that broke out about 2 a.m. Sunday outside a series of nightclubs, causing the deaths of six people and injuring 12.
Almost exactly a year ago, Dist. Atty. Anne Marie Schubert’s office opposed Smiley Martin’s release from state prison to the Board of Parole Hearings in a two-page letter, first reported by the Sacramento Bee. The district attorney’s office asked that he not be freed because he is a career criminal and a danger to the community. Schubert released the letter after a records request but would not comment further.
“Inmate Martin has, for his entire adult life, displayed a pattern of criminal behavior,” wrote Deputy Dist. Atty Danielle Abildgaard. “While the current case on review may not be ‘violent’ under the Penal Code, Inmate Martin’s criminal conduct is violent and lengthy.
“Inmate Martin has committed several felony violations and clearly has little regard for human life and the law, which can be shown by his conduct in his prior felony convictions of robbery, possession of a firearm and prior misdemeanor conviction of providing false information to a peace officer.”
