There’s nowhere on American soil secure from gun violence.
The Kansas Metropolis Chiefs’ Tremendous Bowl parade ended tragically. A disagreement in a close-by parking storage ended with one useless and 21 injured. Two individuals’s egocentric, infuriating determination to let a confrontation get violent led to a mom of two’s loss of life and put a number of wide-eyed children able to have a good time the makings of a dynasty into intensive care.
The 2 males charged – Lyndell Mays and Dominic Miller – each tried to speak their approach out of some of the public mass shootings in latest reminiscence. According to court docket paperwork, each males denied taking pictures anybody on the parade. As soon as police informed them there have been safety cameras within the storage, they instantly crumbled. Mays even had the audacity to say he hesitated taking pictures “because he knew there were kids there.”
Probably the most infuriating a part of this complete ordeal is how nonchalant the entire taking pictures appears to be.
“When asked why Lyndell Mays advanced on them to begin with, he replied, ‘Stupid, man,’” cops wrote within the paperwork obtained by TMZ. “‘Just pulled a gun out and started shooting. I shouldn’t have done that. Just being stupid.’”
“Stupid” shouldn’t start to explain these actions. Killing a girl and placing 21 individuals within the hospital mustn’t get the identical “shouldn’t have done that” admission {that a} center schooler will get for drawing on a rest room stall. “Just being stupid” shouldn’t lead to hosts of Individuals not feeling secure sufficient to have a good time a championship in public.
These males are idiots to their core. For bringing weapons to the parade, for escalating a confrontation right into a taking pictures, and for enjoying all of it off prefer it’s nothing. These shootings occur routinely in America – this one was the 58th mass taking pictures of 2024. Kansas Metropolis isn’t any stranger to the horrors of mass gun violence, as this marked the world’s twenty fifth of the last five years. Even with so many locations made to really feel unsafe within the wake of gun violence, sports activities are sometimes the escapist panacea many want to seek out pleasure.
Diving into sports activities within the wake of tragedy is as American because it will get. Simply have a look at the New Orleans Saints within the wake of Hurricane Katrina, or David Ortiz’s rallying speech after the Boston Marathon bombing. We epitomized everything of the Chilly Warfare with one Olympic hockey recreation. A nation nonetheless reeling within the months after 9/11 got here collectively to observe George Bush put one over the plate on the World Collection. As an alternative of sports activities being that escape, two morons have now ceaselessly tainted championship parades for 1000’s of Individuals.
That Thursday ought to have been a day to have a good time. It was a second to enshrine the Chiefs as a real dynasty, elevating Travis Kelce and Chris Jones to true Corridor of Fame standing and chiseling Patrick Mahomes onto the quarterback Mount Rushmore. That day ought to have sparked conversations of three-peats or G.O.A.T. speak rumblings for Mahomes.
As an alternative, we mourned and requested in futility how this might preserve occurring.
Even worse, Mays’ household set up a GoFundMe account to assist him get by this “tragic time.”
In keeping with the New York Submit:
The fundraiser had reportedly raised $100 for Mays’ medical payments earlier than he was charged Tuesday with second-degree homicide, two counts of armed prison motion and illegal use of a weapon.
