Posted on 05/28/2016 7:40:42 PM PDT by MtnClimber
Troy Ave (right) fired a shot an an unknown figure out of frame to the left. He managed to end up shooting himself in the leg, and killing his bodyguard, who appears to be the man standing behind him in this photo. We’ve pounded this drum relentlessly, and we’re going to keep pounding it: we do not have a “gun violence” problem in the United States. Per capita homicide is at an all time low according to the FBI, while gun sales are setting new records almost every month.
What we do have, however, is a situation where small cultural groups champion the tool of violence as a solution to many problems. These can range from so-called “educational beatdowns” to indiscriminate fire with illegal automatic weapons into crowds to anything in between. We most frequently find this behavior in geographically condensed urban areas, at the intersection where gangs, drugs, poverty, and “gangsta” music intersect.
We saw a stunning example of this culture of violence Wednesday night, when a rapper named Troy Ave pulled a handgun and opened fire before high school drop-out/drug dealer/convicted felon rapper named T.I. took the stage at a venue in New York City.
Ave managed to to kill his own security guard and shoot himself in the leg as well as two others, leading NYPD Police Commisioner Bill Bratton to assert that rap artists are “basically thugs.”
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The thugs are valuable to the left. The more disorder the more government control over society is needed.
H0ld3r’s fault...
Just like Fast and Furious before they got democRATTED out.
That’s because thugs are the liberals main voting block..can’t insult their base
The media does not like the word “thug? How about thug, thug, thug, thug, thug, thug, thug, thug, thug and thug.
So he killed his body guard (Who was also probably a thug) and crippled himself.
Good shooting. More thugs need to be this efficient with their weapons.
“...small cultural groups...”
Yeah that’s what we call a gang. And they are thugs...
He shot the fellow who was standing BEHIND HIM.
As well as his own leg.
Great shooting, slum cowboy.
It’s modern times, and he will not be buried beneath the jail. But when even Bratton gets irked over the culture problem, there is no more excuse not to know there’s a culture problem.
Except they do nothing to stop the violence. Instead they stir it up more.
But I would not call them artists. Nor would I call the filth and racket which they produce either music nor art.
Fartists?
And I have an idea that Donald Trump is not going to take this kind of thing with good humor either. With freedom comes responsibility. If these thugs had to coexist with a city that was more widely packing, they’d probably move on because they would quickly run out of unarmed victims.
Yes, Terry McAauilaffe granted 200k Virginia prisoners who served their terme=s the right to vote without act of their House and Senate. Criminals will always vote for the ‘Rats.
They’re going to vote white into slavery
I didn’t even finish reading this tripe.
One thing I’ve learned over the years is that leftist writers sucha s those from Atlantic, are overly verbose in trying to prove their point.
Hence, why I quit reading this joker about 2/3 through.
They dont like accurate language when it hurts them.
They dont like accurate language when it hurts them.
And by when it hurts them, I mean when it truthfully describes them.
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