bloody summer

America's main holiday was overshadowed by outbreaks of violence across the country.

This is already becoming an unkind tradition: last year and a few years earlier, a lot was also shot and killed these days, but 2022 set a kind of bloody record.

The non-governmental organization Gun Violence Archive closely monitors crimes with the use of weapons in the United States - and so, according to its data, more than 220 people were killed and injured in the country in 72 hours.

On Monday, July 4 alone, there were nine mass shootings (in America, incidents with four or more victims in the same place are considered mass shootings).

From Friday morning until Monday evening, July 4, shots were fired in Chicago (12 killed, 69 wounded), in New York (nine killed, 52 wounded), in Philadelphia (eight killed, more than ten wounded, including two policemen),

Out of all this kaleidoscope of murders and attacks, two very different, but equally characteristic incidents of modern America stand out.

In New York, liquor store owner Jose Alba, an elderly Dominican, defending his store from a hefty black bandit 20 years younger and two heads taller than him, intercepted a knife and killed the attacker.

Killed - a certain Austin Simon, who served time in prison for assaulting a policeman, wanted to either rob Alba's shop, or punish him for refusing to sell chips to his girlfriend (there was no money on her card).

Everything happened under cameras, there was self-defense, and without the use of a firearm (in the state of New York, this is very strict), besides, the business owner protected his private property (and this is generally sacred).

And what do you think?

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg

The second case is the mass execution that thundered throughout the country in the town of Highland Park, Illinois.

Highland Park is that pastoral America that Hollywood films of the 1990s liked to show, a very beautiful, well-groomed town with parks and beaches, clean streets and mansions that look like dollhouses.

It is important that the population of Highland Park is predominantly white: African Americans - only 1.8%, Hispanics - 8%.

This automatically translates Highland Park into the category of crime-free cities, the most common crime here is car theft.

And here, of course, they vote for the Democrats - in the 2020 elections, more than 80% of the votes of Highland Park voters went to Biden, and a year earlier, the staunch liberal Nancy Rothering was once again elected mayor of the city.

One of the main points of her program was tight gun control.

Rothering's opponent in the election was store owner Bob Crimo, who called himself "a man for the people" - a typical small businessman from the American hinterland, from those that make up Donald Trump's nuclear electorate.

And on July 4, 2022, Bob Crimo's son, 22-year-old rapper Robert Crimo III, known by his pseudonym Awake ("sleepless"), climbed onto the roof of a store with an automatic rifle and opened fire on a festive crowd gathered to watch the Independence Day parade.

He killed seven and injured at least 25 spectators and parade participants.

Another 11 people were injured while fleeing in a panic from the intersection that became the site of a carnage.

Crimo was arrested eight hours later: the liberal press immediately hurried to declare him a Trumpist, but later it turned out: there was a mistake, he was confused with his father, who really supports the ex-president.

And the “sleepless” rapper, judging by his posts on social networks, sympathized, rather, with antifa, and in general was a mentally ill person obsessed with ideas of violence.

In 2019, he wanted to commit suicide, and when his family kept him from doing so, he threatened to kill them all.

After that, the police visited Crimo's house - they found and seized 16 knives, a dagger and a sword.

All this arsenal was later returned to the rapper's father.

Krimo, the elder, declared that the edged weapons belonged to him.

But here's what's interesting: thanks to the efforts of the mayor of Rothering, the Highland Park City Council passed an ordinance back in 2013 banning the carrying of assault weapons within the city.

Local conservatives tried to challenge this ruling, and the case went to the Supreme Court, but the decision was upheld.

The liberals celebrated their victory, but the execution on July 4 showed that they rejoiced early.

Because the “sleepless” just got into the car and drove 25 miles to Chicago, where he bought a whole arsenal of firearms, including, apparently, the rifle from which the parade participants were shot.

Bought on absolutely legal grounds - his license to purchase a firearm was in perfect order.

The tragedy in the town of Highland Park - the 309th mass shooting in the United States since the beginning of this year, like the previous mass shootings in Uvalda and Buffalo, has become an occasion for Democrats to once again blame the “terrible Republicans”, the National Rifle Association and Donald Trump personally for everything that is happening. .

And, of course, to once again call for tighter gun control.

Joe Biden said he and his wife were "appalled at the senseless gun violence" and was quick to point out that he recently signed "the first in nearly 30 years" bipartisan gun reform legislation that will no doubt "save many lives."

We are talking about a bill that allows you to make available the dossier of underage gun buyers under the age of 21 when checking their background.

The bill provides states with funding for a program of "red flags," flags placed on the dossiers of potentially violent citizens based on their actions or social media posts.

If there are more than a certain number of these marks, then the law allows you to temporarily seize weapons from such unreliable people.

But Robert Crimo, before obtaining a license, passed four background checks, he was punched through both the police bases and the FBI bases.

Although it is enough to look at the photo of the “sleepless” rapper to understand: it is dangerous for such a person to put even a can opener in his hands.

Yes, and his posts in social networks contain so many explicit and indirect calls for violence that would be enough for a couple of dozen "red flags".

So we need to move on!

Democrats say.

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,” said Illinois Democratic Senator Tammy Duckworth, a former lieutenant colonel in the US Army.

She calls for "getting rid of" assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, which are mainly used in mass shooters.

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,” Chicago City Council member Mike Rodriguez tweeted.

And Illinois Congressman Marcus Evans (of course, a Democrat) said he was concerned about the recent Supreme Court decision making it easier to carry firearms in public places.

It is supposedly "

".

But the Supreme Court was based on the Second Amendment to the Constitution, it turns out that the Democrats encroach on the sacred?

Objecting to supporters of the free sale of weapons, state governor Jay Robert Pritzker said: “

magazine."

Unlike the Democrats, who demand a ban on weapons (at least assault weapons, and ideally any), Republican politicians insist on the need to strengthen law and order, which law enforcement officers should ensure.

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,” Illinois Senator Darren Bailey tweeted.

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But who will provide it?

Kamala Harris visited Highland Park, where she shook hands with the police officers who detained Crimo in front of the cameras.

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," the vice president said.

Fair words, but wasn’t it her fellow Democrats during the BLM riots in 2020 who advocated cuts in police funding?

Didn't they limit the freedom of action of law enforcement officers so that in democratic states the police began to leave the bodies en masse?

So is it only a matter of arms sales, or did the fight against “police arbitrariness” also play a role in the mass executions of recent times?

In the same Uvalda, the police were simply afraid for an hour and a half to go to the school where the killer was shooting hostages, and it was only the border guards who arrived who liquidated him.

And the “sleepless” was detained only eight hours later, which means that the security of the parade was organized very badly ...

There is a major structural problem that threatens nothing less than America's national security.

And the same Democrats who are trying to blame the increase in crime on the supporters of the Second Amendment are responsible for the emergence of this problem.

In American sociology, there is the concept of the Ferguson effect or the Minneapolis effect.

The researchers noticed that a serious surge in violent crime very often follows large-scale protests against police actions and, as a result, a decrease in the decisiveness of law enforcement officers.

This is exactly what happened in the summer of 2020, when George Floyd, a repeat offender and drug addict, died in Minneapolis, believed to be the result of police action.

The nationwide wave of BLM riots was used by the Democrats to fight the hated President Trump.

The #Defund_the_police campaign has led many cities to stop funding police departments.

Hundreds of cops have retired.

Those who remained tried to refrain from aggressive actions against criminals, fearing to fall under the rink of repression.

In addition, in many states, so-called progressive district attorneys (many of whom were elected with the support of George Soros) refused to prosecute robberies and robberies if they were committed by "racially correct" criminals.

And vice versa: remember Alvin Bragg, the District Attorney of Manhattan, which was discussed at the beginning of the article - it was George Soros who invested a million dollars in his election campaign...

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,” The Daily Signal columnist Jerry Stepman bitterly admits.

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The US Department of Justice is seriously preparing for the “bloody summer” of 2022.

The other day, senior officials of the Department of Justice met with representatives of the prosecutor's office and local police in Philadelphia to help the state's cities prepare for the criminal "heat" that is advancing on the country.

But the chances that the weakened immune system of Biden America will cope with the rising crime wave that threatens to be the highest in this century, frankly, are slim.

The point of view of the author may not coincide with the position of the editors.