The weekend headlines were disastrous.
Axios:"At least 54 people were injured and 11 died in seven shootings this weekend." NBC News:"At least 12 people died on another weekend of mass shootings across the United States." Yahoo! News:"At least 12 of the 10 mass shootings in the United States over the weekend." A person died. "
The heading is specifically designed to give the impression that the United States is experiencingBuffalo or Ubaldialmost every day. That is not true. None of the weekend shoots had anything in common with those horrific events. As far as I can tell, nothing was done on the AR-15, it was the most involved beef in and around parties and bars, many of which were characteristic of mass shootings.
The first incident in the Axios report was at a graduation party in Summerton, South Carolina, where two cars were pulled up, fired, one was killed, and seven were injured. Almost all victims were teenagers. According to police, this was a gang-related shooting from a previous drive-by shooting.
Teenager violence should not be minimized by shooting teenagers in trivial disputes and gang-related revenge. In fact, it has a devastating impact on American life, disproportionately affecting young African-American men, and certain areas of our country are uninhabitable boundaries. But they are in a different category than what we generally think of as mass shootings.
Inspired by previous shootings, Got to schooland other public places and slaughtered as many people and gang members as possible aiming for rivals.
The former is a relatively rare and unique destructive event for the community and the whole country, and unfortunately it is very difficult to fight.
The latter is much more common, usually less public attention, and more susceptible to standard anti-crime initiatives such as more police officers and strong prosecutions. ..
The strange feature of the discussion about gun murder is the former The same people who most enthusiastically believe that gun control measures need to be enacted that have little effect on the shooting category of the latter are undoubtedly hostile or indifferent to measures that reduce the latter category. There is a tendency for shooting.
The Golden State Warriors and the Boston Celticswore a shirt decorated with the phrase "End Gun Violence"before the recent NBA Finals match. rice field. The sentiment is anodyne, politically correct enough to be optimal for professional athletes, but the slogan does not achieve anything, and normal gun control does not "end" gun violence.
These same players will probably wear shirts that encourage young men to adopt policies to prevent them from shooting other young men in a much more routine cycle of violence that is intriguing to the country. You wouldn't dare to wear it-"help more police", "Prosecute", for example, "gun crime" or "repeatedly detain the criminal". It is considered totally unacceptable as it causes turmoil in polite circles.
In fact, gun control is ideologically compatible with the media and the left, while arresting and imprisoning people is not.
Knowing exactly how many shootings there are in the country Is difficult related to gangsters (especially witnesses hesitate to speak). However, the Ministry of Justice's National Gang Centeris arguably underrated, with about 2,000 gang murders each year from 2007 to 2012, accounting for about 13% of all murders. I am reporting that there is. In Chicago and Los Angeles, about half of all murders were gang-related.
If you're going to take these killings more seriously, that's good. Tight policies against crime and more coordinated anti-gang measures such as simultaneous targeted arrests have been shown to be effective. It generally doesn't make sense to pose against gun violence, especially without taking on this tragedy — unless posing is the point.
Twitter: @RichLowry
