Carnage In Chicago

As normal Americans were celebrating Independence Day, death rained down on a parade in Highland Park, Illinois, an upscale suburb of Chicago. A 22 year-old aspiring rapper reportedly fired dozens of shots from the roof of a store shortly after the parade began. 

The shooting, which killed six and wounded at least 25, overshadowed the weekend of carnage in the city of Chicago, in which 71 people were shot and eight were killed, mostly in poor minority neighborhoods.

While most of the murders in Chicago will go unsolved, the likely murderer in Highland Park has been arrested. Of course, the terrible event was immediately politicized by the left. 

The Biden Administration, the media and left-wing activists once again demanded new laws to take away your firearms. Predictably, there are already efforts to somehow turn the killer into a creature of the right. 

For example, there are reports circulating that he once attended a Trump rally dressed as the “Where’s Waldo” character. If he attended a rally, it means nothing. John Wilkes Booth attended Abraham Lincoln’s second inauguration. 

The Highland Park shooter has face tattoos. That’s not typical of most conservatives. He is a white rapper, whose lyrics promoted nihilism and the idea that life means nothing and has no significance. 

He attacked a Fourth of July parade. Trump supporters were leading the ceremonies at Independence Day events all over the country. The left routinely denounces conservatives as “super patriots.” 

The only other people attacking the July Fourth were left-wing celebrities and politicians bemoaning the fact that there was nothing to celebrate in their view.

So, I’m making a wild guess that the shooter wasn’t a Christian. He wasn’t a member of the Federalist Society. I don’t think he was a neo-con or a paleo-con or a conservative of any particular stripe.

He’s just another sad example of the people we have increasingly seen in the streets of America. The anarchists owned the streets in the summer of 2020. Their goal is to tear down, destroy and intimidate. And they desperately want to see America burn.