Senseless

Last week, Christopher Darnell Jones Jr., a former University of Virginia football player, walked on to a bus filled with University of Virginia students returning from a school trip, and began firing a gun at the students, wounding 2, and killing 3 others. Football players, D’Sean Perry, Lavel Davis Jr. and Devin Chandler were the 3 students who were killed. It was an utter, senseless tragedy. Three young men in the prime of their lives killed for absolutely no reason.

The unusual thing about this tragedy is that very few politicians have tried to politicize it. Maybe because the election just ended, and a new one will not occur for another two years, so no politician wants to put in the effort to politicize something that will not help them politically. But if you look further into this tragedy, it becomes very obvious why it was not politicized the way most shootings are – both the victims and the assailant happen to be black.

If a white person had committed this heinous crime, the usual suspects would all have stood up in unison declaring that this one act was definitive proof of white supremacy and systemic racism in America. If a police officer had shot and killed one black UVA student, our cities would be burning to the ground right now. There have not even been the usual anti-Second Amendment gun grabbers exploiting this tragedy as an excuse to take the guns out of law-abiding citizens hands. It is almost as if the left doesn’t want anyone to notice these killings even happened.