Last Wednesday as Kansas City Chiefs fans were gathered at a parade to celebrate their Super Bowl victory, two juveniles opened fire on the crowd wounding 22 and killing a 47-year-old local DJ and mother, Elizabeth Lopez-Galvan. Many of the victims were under 16.
The Kansas City Police Department has arrested two juveniles and charged them with gun related violations and resisting arrest. Both juveniles are currently incarcerated in a juvenile detention facility.
As with any crime involving firearms, the matter instantaneously became a political football, shuttled between Democrats and Republicans struggling for a media touchdown. But, the politicization extends beyond the implements used in causing murder and mayhem. If a favored constituency is implicated in the perpetration of violence, an unnatural hush and solemnity falls on the characteristically loud, boorish, and irreverent legacy media priesthood.
The silence is deafening for the absence of the ubiquitous din from the CNN propagandists who usually grind their barrel organs, while half of America jigs at the end of a leash.
The identities of the two juveniles involved in this shooting are being assiduously protected from the prying eyes of the public. The media, whose stock-in-trade is the salacious, and who joyfully embed with jeering crowds who shriek “crucify him” at any unfortunate soul which........