Forget apple pie — mass shootings are the new ‘all-American’ distinction

The Hill ^ | 01/24/2023 | RAUL REYES

[ChicagoConservative27]

This weekend, I watched the breaking news reports from Southern California with a mixture of shock, disbelief and anger. On Saturday night, what had been a gathering to celebrate the Lunar New Year in a Los Angeles suburb became the scene of a massacre. By Sunday, President Biden had issued a statement, noting: “While there is still much we don’t know about the motive in this senseless attack, we do know that many families are grieving tonight, or praying that their loved one will recover from their wounds.”

I am from Monterey Park, Calif. I am struggling to process a reality that has become familiar to many Americans: The horror of a mass shooting has come to my hometown. And this diverse, vibrant community will never be the same.

I know the area surrounding the Star Ballroom Dance Studio — the site of the attacks — very well. The church where I made my First Communion is down the street, and the public park where I learned to swim is around the corner.

[Renfrew]

” Murder is a consequence of the disposition of the people.”

I agree, but that disposition is tied to our freedom. European and Asian cities have their poverty and their underworlds, but since everyone is servile by nature very little of that results in violent crime.

Americans are brought up to by fighters. That makes us victors in war and in business, but also means our failed cities are battlefields.

[Doc91678]

Indeed, there are mass shootings every weekend and sometimes during the week in Chicago.
No one claims it’s an American thing.
Meanwhile, more people are killed daily by Fentanyl nationwide than black on Black mass killings.

[Doc91678]

https://www.foxnews.com/us/chicago-violence-5-dead-50-shot-bloody-weekend