How many mass shootings occurred in America between July 16 and July 28th, 2019? What was the race of the shooter identified by police?
There were 36 mass shootings across the United States during that two-week period. A white was named as the shooter in one of them. An Hispanic was accused in another one. In the other 34, police identified a black suspect as the shooter.
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| Violent-crime victims weapons used, Chicago, 2019 so far |
The day after the Gilroy shooting, NY Mayor (and presidential candidate) Bill de Blasio was asked by a reporter whether the Gilroy shooting resembled the mass shootings in New York.Why doesn't the Left count them that way? The Chicago Tribune explains that there is no way to politically weaponize black men shooting other black men. But they can weaponize El Paso and Dayton.
"Not all, said de Blasio. “We don’t really count them that way.”
Those angry loner white boys with guns, this time in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, have again erupted on the body politic.Black men killing other black men? That's not news. Middle-class white shooters killing white middle-class shoppers or club hoppers, now that's news!
And those with eyes to see are reminded that the American culture is ill.
But what of the mass shootings in Chicago, the 55 people shot over the weekend, with seven hit near a park and then eight more not far away?
You might think these are “mass shootings” too, but, in political/media terms, they’re not treated as such. The victims, and in all likelihood the shooters, are black. And Democratic politicians find no political advantage in weaponizing the victims of everyday street violence in a Democratic town. So Chicago’s dead are stepped over by national media and national Democrats on the way to 2020.
A clergy colleague of mine wrote me of my observation,
This discussion is beginning to rise among African American pastors, at least in my neck of the woods:
• There's lots of talk *now* about studies on mass murderers because *white* people are killing folks.
• Why haven't folks been as outraged about gangs?
• Black on black killing?
• Nobody cares about our public schools, where gangs recruit while white folks send their kids to "academies."
• A lot more people have died in urban violence than in mass school killings. Are we not as important?
It needs to be a both/and where school shootings and urban violence are concerned. But our outrage seems to be selective - and for that, we must repent.HT: Gerard Vanderleun, who also offers this collage of mug shots of every mass shooter in the US arrested by police from January - July of this year.
Yep, mass shooters are motivated by "white supremacism" all right.
Updates:
"You don't have to be a detective why the liberal media would rather have this story [about the political views of Dayton killer Connor Betts] just fade away. It's not the right kind of mass shooting."
"The Dayton Murderer Is Proof We Need To Take Left-Wing Violence Seriously"
Reuters: FBI finds gunman in Dayton, Ohio, rampage was obsessed with violence
Hollywood Film Depicts Trump Supporters Being Hunted for Sport by Liberals
Universal Pictures is set to release a thriller called The Hunt on September 27, which features left-wing “elites” hunting Trump supporters for sport.
In the past few days we’ve been hearing a lot about how Donald Trump’s rhetoric is apparently to blame for the El Paso shooting, yet Hollywood apparently lacked the foresight to think that a movie promoting violence against “deplorables” might be in bad taste until after the shootings in El Paso and Dayton, as only now is Universal rethinking their promotional strategy for the film.Update:
"Did anyone see what our ratf**ker-in-chief just did?" one character asks early in the screenplay for The Hunt, a Universal Pictures thriller set to open Sept. 27. Another responds: "At least The Hunt's coming up. Nothing better than going out to the Manor and slaughtering a dozen deplorables."
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