March for Our Lives photos:
Houston Police Chief Art Acevedo and Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner join protesters at #MarchForOurLives https://t.co/kSqokmScR0 pic.twitter.com/ZwflmOnXYj— Yahoo News (@YahooNews) March 24, 2018
U.S.A. – -(Ammoland.com)- “Two people were killed and more than 20 people were injured in what police called a ‘targeted and cowardly act’ early Sunday morning outside a Northwest Miami-Dade banquet hall,” WTVJ 6, NBC’s South Florida affiliate reports. “This marks the second mass shooting in South Florida on Memorial Day weekend.”
As with the earlier incident, the suspects are at large, and the public’s help in identifying them is being solicited.
“Anyone with information is asked to call Miami-Dade Police or Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers,” the report notes. “Crime Stoppers just announced a reward of $30,000 in partnership with the U.S Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, for information leading to the arrest of the perpetrators. This is aside from the $100,000 reward offered by Marcus Lemonis, host of CNBC’s ‘The Profit,’ on Sunday.”
With the public still in danger from such ruthless and now desperate predators being on the loose, one would think descriptions of the suspects would be in order. There were plenty of survivors at both incidents who no doubt have provided authorities with details, and sharing those could only help increase the chances that someone might make a sighting worth investigating.
Instead, and no surprise here, Miami’s gun prohibitionist police chief is blaming “gun laws” and calling for more of them.
Per Fox News, Miami Police Chief Art Acevedo called on members of Congress “to come out of their own corners the left and the right and come to the middle where most Americans are.”
“We need to have universal background checks, we need to make burglarizing these licensed gun stores a federal crime with mandatory sentencing, and we need the federal government and both sides to address this issue because without legislation,” Acevedo said. “Without certainty as it relates to holding these criminals accountable, we’re never going to get through this summer with much more death and destruction.”
“Background checks”? No doubt the Miami “mass shooters” filled out 4473s and an FFL ran their transfers through NICS. And news flash for Acevedo: ATF requires licensed dealers to report stolen firearms, the Department of Justice prosecutes such crimes as part of Project Safe Neighborhoods, and the federal courts impose sentences on the guilty.
Being president of the Major Chiefs Association and past Chair of its Homeland Security Committee that acknowledges support from Project Safe Neighborhoods (see pg. 16), you’d think he’d know that. Of course, you’d also think a refugee from Castro’s Cuba would understand the evil of violence monopolies and not try to wrest away freedoms from the people who took him and his family in.
Professional citizen disarmament lobbyists, while mentioning Miami and blaming guns, are being surprisingly non-hysterical about this so far on social media. I’ll go out on a limb here, even though suspects in both Miami “mass shooting” incidents have not been identified: They will not fit the prevailing narrative. If nothing else, those who demand to disarm their countrymen know when to exploit a meme and when their talking points to conflate and smear Constitutionalists as racists can be easily refuted.
About David Codrea:
David Codrea is the winner of multiple journalist awards for investigating/defending the RKBA and a long-time gun owner rights advocate who defiantly challenges the folly of citizen disarmament. He blogs at “The War on Guns: Notes from the Resistance,” is a regularly featured contributor to Firearms News, and posts on Twitter: @dcodrea and Facebook.
Why is Police Chief Art Acevedo spewing all the rhetoric when he knows the gun laws and procedures already in place? He is setting himself up to run for office.
That is why I never leave home without a laser sighted AR10 in the back of my rig. In case something like this happens where I’m at it will be SURPRISE! Someone who not only shoots back but doesn’t miss thanks to that converted from 5MW to 200MW laser that works up to 100 yards on a bright sunny day.
his family is castro plants, some of castros agents were sent to keep an eye on exiles and report those with money to fleece them ,the gang problem is what is going on, and some of it appears to be people who dont join or dont pay protection ,there was even a pro player that was killed for not giving back in Houston was never solved because like miami it is not GANG related crime is gun crime and they do it in public to make a point police cant protect you we have shot censors all over the county… Read more »
I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again…TYPICAL PSYCHOPATHIC CONTROL FREAK BURRO RAT. AND: There are countless articles and commentators and pundits who fence and tangle, who tumble and roll the slogans and platitudes of gun control, civilian disarmament, public safety, gun violence epidemics, commonsense restrictions, loopholes, Second Amendment rights and other sophisticated and nuanced and ultimately irrelevant sophistries that dance around and completely avoid the blunt and brutally honest point of lethal, military grade weapons in the hands of civilians. They are in those hands for one purpose, and one purpose only. That purpose is cold, unmistakable and ruthless.… Read more »
He looks a bit smug, don’t you think?
Most of these killings could be prevented by “Stop & Frisk”. The politicians
don’t want these shootings to end, it gives them an opportunity to run on a phony promise of “Law & Order” platform, and gun control.