It's just another convicted felon getting shot outside a major city, typical gang on gang violence

Especially the right. If this kid had a little more left in him they'd never stop. Introspection about the normalization of political violence among conservatives is not something they're interested in.

If the kid had been a hair left of THEIR perceived center MAGAs would had declared civil war.

This is potentially the grimmest perspective I’ve ever read. I don’t think you’re wrong, either.

The same week that Jamar Clark, there was a mass shooting at the warehouse district blue line stop. 3-4 people died with a few more shot.

Jamar was shot by cops. The others were shot in a gang dispute (the victims were not associated, but mostly black, the shooter was black, iirc,)

You won’t find the names of the victims anywhere online.

Also, before Sound Bar closed down, there were weekly gang fights spilling out of the joint, into the streets/lot out back.

People were shot monthly with a string of deaths for about 2-3 years.

Then a C-tier Vikings player got winged and suddenly they yeeted the liquor license.

We’re absolutely desensitized and the only time we know about a stranger getting shot is because there was something about the case- killed by cops, the shooter was famous, the victim was famous, or it was some kid, or it was in the context of a mass murder and nothing else was going on.

Given how much he owes construction contractors in New York, yeah.

This wasn't the first attempt there's been a good number. This is just the most successful.

Previously unmatched in their ability to hit an easy target, but a new contender has emerged!

I get your point, but damn I'd love to have a Powerball ticket that was off by one number. That's more than enough money to retire on. Not that I need it, it'd just be nice to retire at 43 rather than 49.

https://lemmy.ca/post/25179438

Yes, really! I thought you might find the post I'm linking above interesting. It was at the top of my feed this morning and may be relevant here.

I am curious if maybe you were witnessing people of the Boomer generation (or older GenX) discussing this because they are more likely to be consuming mainstream broadcast news?