Shootings are one of the few fixable problems afflicting this country. However, it’s not going to be fixed because that would require acknowledging a few facts:
- It’s young black men doing most of the shooting.
- This demographic has a set of traits which make it difficult to exercise restraint.
- They’re neither stealthy nor discreet about what they’re doing.
After recognizing reality and not caring about how anyone feels about that, it’s quite simple to prevent projectiles from perforating black bodies. Here’s Bloomberg on how he made the shooting rate plummet as mayor of NYC:
“95% of your murders and murderers and murder victims fit one M.O…….. That’s true in virtually every city in America………. we put all the cops in the minority neighborhoods. Yes, that’s true. Why’d we do it? Because that’s where all the crime is. And the way you should get the guns out of the kids’ hands is throw them against the wall and frisk them”
Heavily deploy police to black areas and direct them to actively search young black men to make sure they’re not carrying guns. If they are, dispense lengthy prison sentences. It’s plain race realism, not rocket science. Unless, you have a PhD in criminology:
From an interview with this genius in Politico:
“I’m not surprised at all that we had an increase in crime,” Topalli said in an interview. “Criminologists and public health people were saying that that was going to be the case as soon as they heard about the pandemic. And it’s pretty much come true at this point.”
Anything short of blaming young black men and using the Bloomberg approach on them isn’t going to work and we know that because it hasn’t. Thus, there’s no point in wasting money on academic hacks to gin up convoluted and ridiculous theories as to why so many black people are getting shot and how that could potentially be stopped. Of course, only some sort of systemic collapse would put an end to this practice.
In St Louis, the mayor invited the mayor of Kansas City over to congratulate each other about approaches that aren’t working. The event was interrupted by gunfire:
This theater of the absurd does provide some confirmation bias, but it’s exasperating. I’d find it refreshing if all these hacks could just admit they’re not going to do anything to stop black people from taking dirt naps or sustaining grisly bullet wounds and moreover, they don’t really care what happens to them at all.
When the police back off, shootings spike. It’s quite simple, but because Democrats are the real racists and harbor the soft bigotry of low expectations, they don’t believe that blacks are capable of desisting from gun violence while being observed by a police patrol and not carrying one around at all times if that will entail a trip to prison.
Instead, they tacitly allow black communities to get turned into war zones while professing a certain level of confusion about the cause and perpetually promising to get the bottom of it and restore order some day. As a veteran anti-racist activist, I find this highly offensive.
I’m proud to officially announce my candidacy for the office of Dogcatcher.
