A Violent Weekend Across the Nation

mass murder by a white supremacist lunatic. What can we take from this as it pertains to law enforcement, as it pertains to how this kind of atrocity could be prevented in the future. Also, a mass shooting in a church near Laguna Beach, California. It was stopped by parishioners, mostly Asian church and an Asian man in his sixties Asian American Manasin Custody will discuss that. Plus what I saw myself in Chicago that was distressing. As much as there's a lot of great stuff about that city, that

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a half million people who live in Chicago. It's America's third most populous city, but it's really la doesn't feel like a city the way New York in Chicago do. It's very different kind of city. And I thought to myself, well, look i've never been. I'm gonna go, and went with Carrie, who is my significant other. You may have seen some photos on that of her over the weekend, so now that's that's out there in public, and I thought to myself, look,

I'm gonna go. I'm gonna see what it's like. But a lot of you were saying to me at the time, it's really dangerous, watch out. And I know something about crime in major cities, having grown up in New York during its most violent period. A lot of people think it was the seventies. That's not true. There might have been more decay and financial trouble in the city in the seventies, but New York was at it's most violent

in the early nineteen nineties. So I grew up in a city with over two thousand murders a year, and that was clearly very concerning for all it was horrific. And so when I was being told by people, well, Chicago is dangerous, I thought, well, I'm sure I understand how this goes. Surely there are areas of Chicago that are dangerous, but it will be fine in the area

where I was. I was staying right on the river, on the Chicago River, within easy walk of the of Lake Michigan, in the most crowded, most touristy, most downtown part of the entire city. So it felt like, well, that has to be that has to be a safe place, right in a safe area. And there was some some racket, you know, a little bit of downtown disorder the friday I got there, or there was some kind of a flash party that was thrown hundreds one hundreds of kids,

but that he looked as a party. It didn't seem like a you know, a big deal. But over the course the weekend, I went to the Bean, which I had never been to before, which is this metallic it kind of looks like a coffee bean. I don't know what else to say, but it's this metallic structure. It's one of the most famous. It's in Millennium Park. It's one of the most famous tourist sites of all of Chicago.

And I bring this up because it was a glorious weekend in terms of weather, and people were just stopping to say, oh, my gosh, isn't so beautiful. And everyone that I met who found out that I was my first time in Chicago, they said, well, your timing is perfect,

because the weather has been pretty terrible all year. It just got good like that was the first good weekend of weather they had in Chicago the whole year, so where it wasn't raining and really warm, where it wasn't super cold, which is most of the time, as we knew.

And so I thought, oh, I'm so lucky. And I'm walking with Carrie by the bean and I turned and I said, you know, maybe maybe we conservatives think that the situation in Chicago, it's clearly very bad based on the numbers, but maybe the disorder hasn't spread quite as far across the city. I was just trying to be contrarian and keep myself honest with this, but I said, to us, it seems pretty safe around here. I don't

really sense. And then we went to dinner, and while we were at dinner, she got a notice on a news notice on her phone. She also works in news saying that there had been a shooting. Not only was there shooting in Chicago, there was a shooting at the Bean in Millennium Park, a fatal one. A sixteen year old was murdered just someone got into some kind of dispute, pulled out, have gone shot him to death right there. I think there might have been one or two others

who were also wounded, and they made two arrests. The situation. But if there's den for a city like Chicago on its most beautiful day of the year weatherwise, in its most well known and trafficked park at perhaps it's after some of its skyscrapers, most famous tourist attraction, to have a shooting right there over over the weekend on a Saturday afternoon, Saturday early evening is an indicator of something. A fatal shooting at that is an indicator of something.

And as you know, you read about this over the weekend, you'll hear, you know, twenty shot in Chicago, seven fatally, you know, thirty shot in Chicago eight fatally. It's just it's appalling what's going on there. And you have Democrats in charge of these major cities, and they're doing a terrible job, and they're ruining major cities. I mean that that is always going to leave. I was somebody who

went to a went to the city of Chica. I'm in New Yorker, went with an open mind, and there is fantastic food, in great people, and there's a lot to recommend Chicago, there's no question about that. But I will always remember saying, maybe it's not that bad here, and then someone was murdered right where I said that a couple hours later, in a very crowded, safe part,

supposedly safe part of the city. And that's not something that you easily will shake off in terms of your perceptions of a city and how safe it may be.

And Democrats are ruining these places, and they're ruining them because ideologically they're opposed to doing the very obvious, taking the very obvious steps that one would do if ending crime was really the purpose of their policies, if they took social justice and writing historical wrongs and an anti police attitude all these things that they removed all of that and they just did what was necessary. And people say, well,

what do you think it is? It's very straightforward, Actually, you allow police to do their jobs, you back them up as long as they're doing their jobs law and in good faith. You take violent or serious criminals off the streets for long periods of time, and then you see where you are. But you have to. I mean, society is at war right now in these cities with the criminal element, and they're praying upon disproportionately on minorities, and in fact, the victims, by the numbers of these

shootings are disproportionately young black men. So the same Democrats who are often pushing the narratives about criminal justice saying that they're trying to do they're trying to be more fair to minority communities, that's actually not the end outcome of their policies. The policies are that they make communities, all communities worse off and make things more dangerous. And so that was my sense of Chicago over the weekend.

I was glad I went. I had a very good weekend as a visitor, But the crime situation is serious and is something that needs to be taken out of the hands of woke Democrats and handed to people who are serious about handling it and now onto. I also saw the news over the weekend, of course of the horrific shooting in Buffalo, and it's this always plays out in the immediate aftermath in the media narrative in a

way that is highly predictable. Let's just start with that shooter in Buffalo is a sick maniac who should spend the rest of his life in prison, if not be executed for what he did, whether you believe in capital punishment or not. If you believe in capital punishment, then he should end his days with a bag over his head and a needle in his arm. Let's be very

clear about that. So this shooter is a monster, and there are monsters among us, people that latch on to hateful ideologies and their brains become polluted with vicious And let's also be clear that the choice is made to be evil, and this is an instance of pure evil. It's heartbreaking that these uh, these ten people African Americans were murdered in this supermarket in Buffalo. It's a it's a it's a very difficult day for the whole country.

It's horrific. Now, there was also a shooting, another mass shooting in a church, as I mentioned, in near Laguna Beach in California, but only one person fortunately was killed there. A few other were shot, but the parishioners in the church were able to stop that mass shooter. In the case of Buffalo, there was a brave retired police officer who was a security guard who did open fire and he stood in. He stood in the way, He put

his life on the line. He lost his life defending people because the shooter had him outgunned with well, mostly because he had body armor on and so the rounds didn't penetrate and the security guard wasn't able to stop the threat. It's it's a shame. I mean, all of us sit here and say, God, why couldn't Why couldn't just one of those rounds have gone a little bit higher and hit this piece of disgusting, evil waste right

between the eyes and ended the threat. It wouldn't have saved every life, obviously that there were others who were shot outside, but it would have saved lives inside. Tragically, that didn't end up being the way the situation unfolded. And now you have this individual and custody, and I'll just say, there is evil in the world. We need to confront it. We need to be aware of it.

But these things that the politicians rushed to right away, or they say, oh, if only we could have more gun control laws than that would have stopped this, Well that's not true. I wish we couldn't stop this. I wish we could. There's anything we could do to stop this, and I'm opened to any real ideas, but gun control measures will not stop it. Blaming Twitch, the live streaming platform, because this sick maniac put it on Twitch as he was engaged in this active mass murder. Twitch is a

streaming platform. I believe they took it down within two minutes as soon as anybody flagged this for violent content. I believe they acted relatively with relative speed on this issue. But as long as you're going to have people who can live stream, live stream horrific content, there will be mass shooters, seems, who were able to, at least for a period of time, do this. And then the blaming of conservatives for this. That's just in bad faith and

that's not surprising. But they want to pin the evil on those on the right that they don't like, even though there's no connection whatsoever. The Bernie Sanders supporter who tried to murder a dozen members of Congress were all Conservatives. Bernie Sanders is not responsible for that, you know, Biden in the Democrats are not responsible for the subway shooter in New York City. I mean this is you look at the way people try to connect these things. We shouldn't.

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Sorry about the brevity today, but my voice I'm hoping he's going to hold out through the radio show. I will speak to you tomorrow Shield time