Of course, we will hear from the Blue Haired Mafia about how we need 'red flag laws' to prevent animals like the Highland Park Murderer from doing this again. But maybe instead we should have a conversation about WTF the cops were NOT doing when they ran into this freak in 2019...TWICE!  So instead of taking one look at him and matching that up against why the cops were in his house in the first place then, we now have lots of screeching and hissing about how 'people were blown apart in the streets.'  This is a tragedy that should have never happened, yet it did.  

Why is it that the FBI has so many of these animals on their radar, yet they fail to do anything about it?  It seems that almost all the mass murderers in the past decade or so somehow slipped through the cracks.  

How is it that we can spend all those resources on a manufactured political assassination, but they miss the obvious potential threats right under their noses?

It's almost like the Left has an agenda.  

The new narrative is that 'there's been over 300 mass shootings in 2022 alone, so we MUST do something about guns!'  Now mind you, they've changed the definition of 'mass shooting' in order to make it appear that we are living in the Taliban controlled part of Afghanistan, but let's really look at their data.  (click on the hyperlink)

I’ll summarize the data for you: As of July 7, 2022, the article has documented 337 ‘mass shootings’ in America.  Mind you, I think shootings are a problem in the nation, but before I argue about the solution, let’s dive a little deeper into the data.  

Of the 337 ‘mass shootings’ listed in Wikipedia, 207 of them (61%) involve 4 victims.  I’m not saying that those 4 people don’t count, but rather that 61% of today’s ‘mass shootings’ would not have been classified as mass shootings a decade ago because they changed the parameters to manufacture hysteria.  

What’s more, if you dig deeper, you’ll find that an overwhelming majority of these shootings are gang/drug related, which is part of the life that is pervasive in all major cities (of course run exclusively by democrats).  Shootings at night clubs, apartment complexes and house parties are included in this group because they regularly seem to be gang/drug related.  You can look at the list and find all kinds of commonalities.  Again, I’m not endorsing ANY violence, but there are certainly patterns we should be looking at.

But what I’m trying to formulate in my head is this: if places like Chicago, that sport about 600 murders per year (almost all black-on-black crime) hardly does anything to stop the killing in those neighborhoods, why are we supposed to give a damn about it until the media/democrats choose to re-classify it as a ‘mass shooting’ in order to support their Gun Grab Agenda?  

Over the 2022 4th of July weekend, Chicago sported no less than 60 shooting victims including 10 dead, yet black, lesbian Mayor Lori Lightfoot has handcuffed the Chicago Police from doing anything about it.  Black female Cook County (Illinois) State’s Attorney, Kim Fox has released hundreds of violent criminals onto the streets of Chicago who turn around and commit more gun related violence the minute they walk out the doors of the jails they should be forever committed to.  

I spent 47 of my 53 years on this earth as a resident of Chicago and watching the evening news is telling: there are so many shootings in Chicago that unless a kid is shot, it barely gets covered.  It is so common that we are numb to it all and mostly ignore it.

But the Gun Grab Lobby is more than happy to count these same victims as ones of a ‘mass shooting,’ for which they had to reduce the definition of in order to support their case for ‘common sense gun control.’  

They never seem to be open to discussing the root causes of violent crime in the first place because that is simply inconvenient.  

In this Minnesota Psychological Association article, children who grow up in households where the father is absent are exponentially more likely to experience a variety of setbacks in life, including joining a gang, being involved in the criminal justice system, childhood obesity, poor school performance and mental health issues.

Children born into single, female only households have a poverty rate of over 45%, which is over 400% higher than in 2 parent families that are married (9.5%).  Nearly 25 million children live in households where there is no father present.  In 2019, 64% of black kids, 42% of Hispanic kids and 24% of white kids were born without a father in the home. This is not a problem - this is a pandemic!

The Brookings Institute did a study that said it is essentially impossible to remain in poverty in America if you do just three things:

1. Finish high school

2. Don’t have babies before you are married

3. Have any job

But we live in a country that celebrates violence, ‘sexual emancipation,’ the ‘hookup culture’ and promiscuity.  The McDonald’s jingle is how too many Americans are living their real lives: “Bah, dat, dah dah dah!  I’m lovin’ it.”  They say you can ‘have it your way, right away’ and that is exactly what Americans have been programmed to.  You want to ‘tap that azz,’ then run from the consequences of that sexual encounter.  The result is a baby (unless you are a fetus in New York where you’ve got a higher chance of being aborted than being born) that is born to the single mother and voila!  That baby is now a product of the problem. Lather. Rinse. Repeat.  

We have an education system that has been hamstrung with terrible laws like the “No Child Left Behind” fiasco which demands that teachers cannot kick a disruptive child out of the classroom.  So when authors Stephan and Abagail Thernstrom look at the standardized test scores of black, white and Hispanic kids, they see that black kids read at about 4 years behind the white kids (ref. “America In Black and White”).  This isn’t a racial thing.  We must look at WHY.  

As it turns out, the disruptive bullies in the classroom drag everyone else down with them.  The smart kids stay silent and even ‘act dumb’ because they don’t want to be beaten up (more than they already are), and the struggling, but curious kids stay quiet for the same reason.  The impact is that they fall further and further behind.  

So while I am extremely critical of Teacher’s Unions and their radical Leftist agenda, I feel empathy for the school teachers on the front lines who have NO ability to deal with the little monsters that are disrupting their classroom.  They are often relegated to be babysitters, rather than help their kids grow up and become productive members of society.  

Without fathers in the home, that lack of education, related poverty and stresses of life see too many of these kids turn to fantasy.  Kids crave acceptance and gangs fill that hole.  Being bombarded with the adrenaline rush of sex and violence everywhere, these kids grow up taking what they want and leaving a swath of destruction behind them.  The result is that they often end up in prison (unless you’re in Chicago, where Kim Fox lets you go).  

The FBI gets a little, squirrely, purple-haired, face tattooed kid who threatens his own family with knives in 2019 TWICE.  He is a trash rapper who has videos all over social media talking about his intentions to kill.  He does a video IN A SCHOOL talking about killing people.  And NO ONE ‘saw this coming.’  

If you would have brought me into that home, I would take one look at that kid and get him out of there.  Go ahead and say, “But Tim, you’re being so judgmental!” and you’d be right…and 7 people would be alive today and 25 others wouldn’t be injured.  We have to stop being so damned politically correct and start taking a stand against the radicalization of our kids.  We must start making better decisions in our lives and have way more discipline.  

In the end, no ‘red flag gun laws’ would have stopped the Highland Park Murderer from his treachery.  His FATHER co-signed his application for buying the gun he used to kill people.  The killer then somehow passed FOUR background checks.  His father ‘had no idea’ that his son was capable of this act of terror.  And to that, I call BS.  No one in their right mind would have lived with that kid, suffered from the threats of suicide and even killing his own family in 2019 and be able to claim they were ‘surprised.’  That father failed the victims of his son’s crimes. I think he should be charged as an accessory to murder for his part in his son’s crimes, since he literally enabled it.

There is no easy solution for the violence. We have the third most populous nation in the world and we are armed to the hilt with guns. We are a nation born of violence and we’ve been at war for just about every year (except for a handful) since 1776. We are a people who used guns against the world’s greatest military superpower at the time and we won. The Founding Fathers knew just how important our right to bear arms is and the codified it in the Constitution.

And we also have a culture problem. We’ve manufactured hysteria, put our boys on psychotropic drugs, isolated each other and glorified both violence and unrestrained sexual impulses. We’ve demonized men and allowed the Left to blend away masculinity. Everything is upside down and it has contributed to the state of the union today.

The entire system failed to stop this.  This isn’t about guns, unlike what the screeching Blue Haired Mafia is chanting about now.  There aren’t 327 ‘mass shootings.’  There have been maybe 20.  The rest are a function of the society and culture Hollywood celebrates with their movies.  We allowed the democrat Left to ‘kill God’ and now people are left to their own, selfish, treacherous devices and these are the results.