With all of the rabid reporting in the media on mass shootings, there are two things about them that keep repeatedly coming up that you would think would be better known.
Of course, that assumes that we actually have an unbiased legacy mainstream media who would report the truth when it comes to firearms and shootings.
Which we do not.
Which is why there’s a fairly good chance that, except for here and (maybe) a handful of other places, you haven’t heard those details.
What are they? That mass shootings tend to occur more often in blue cities, and mass shootings are often gang related. Of course, it won’t be a surprise that those factors often take place at the same time since blue cities seem to be more likely to have gang violence problems.
But leaving aside how much of a problem that gang violence is (and it really is a big problem in some areas), we’re left with the blue city issue.
We can talk about why blue cities tend to deal with higher levels of mass shootings, but my point today is to show you exactly how widespread the blue city mass shooting issue is.
It’s so big of an issue that, even in a state that is both generally considered to be a red state and a pro-gun state (where you might assume that people would be armed to be able to fire back), a blue city has blue city issues. Ava Brendgord, Julianna Russ, Kelly Wiley, and Christopher Adams write about a recent mass shooting in Austin, Texas,
- The shooting happened at Buford’s bar on West Sixth Street around 2 a.m. Sunday.
- Three people were killed in the shooting: Ryder Harrington, Jorge Pederson and Savitha Shan. Fifteen others were injured, including a “number” of University of Texas students.
- Two people remain in local hospitals as of Thursday afternoon, one of whom is in critical condition.
- The gunman, 53-year-old Ndiaga Diagne, was shot and killed by police shortly after he opened fire.
So, how did this happen in Austin?
Getting into details makes it easy to miss the forest for the trees because the short answer is: Austin is a blue city in a red state, so Austin does things that set up situations in which horrible things like this can and do happen.
Just like blue cities do everywhere.
So, we can get into specifics about how to prevent these kinds of horrible things from happening in the future (and we should look into solutions). The first thing to start with, though, is for people in blue cities to stop voting blue. The pattern of gun violence in blue cities is too consistent to be random, and, sadly, the people there are paying the price by being the victims of bad policies, including bad gun policies.
