The Sacramento Shooting Is a Product of Society Not the Gun Industry

Apr 06, 2022

In the ongoing promotion of the false narrative that inanimate objects are the reason for deadly violence, the usual suspects on the Left and far-Left are once again calling for more unconstitutional restrictions to be placed on law-abiding citizens.

Early last Sunday morning in Sacramento, California – just a short walk from the steps of the state capitol, six people were killed and 12 others injured when at least two people opened fire outside an assembly of crowded bars in the downtown district.

Authorities arrested two individuals, bothers, in connection with the shootings. Dandre Martin, 26, and his brother Allen “Smiley” Martin, 27, were both charged with a variety of crimes including assault with a firearm, possession of a firearm by a prohibited person, and possession of a machine gun.

According to the Sacramento Bee:

“...a spokeswoman for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation [said] Martin, who was sentenced to 10 years in prison in 2018, ‘had already received 508 days of pre-sentencing credits, and received a variety of additional post-sentencing credits’ and ‘was released to Sacramento County probation in February 2022.’
“In 2018, he was sentenced to 10 years in prison for domestic violence and assault with great bodily injury. Prosecutors said Martin entered his girlfriend’s home, punched her, whipped her with a belt, and dragged her from the home by her hair in that incident...
“The Parole Board in 2021 rejected Martin’s bid for an early release in May because he posed ‘a significant, unreasonable risk of safety to the community.’ District attorneys last year vehemently opposed Martin’s release from the sentence.”

President Biden, along with California’s embattled governor, Gavin Newsom, immediately picked up the activist line, blaming the inanimate objects for the actions of the Martin brothers.

Newsom said in a statement, in part, “The scourge of gun violence continues to be a crisis in our country, and we must resolve to bring an end to this carnage.”

And the President doubled down on the false-flag argument, saying:

"Today, America once again mourns for another community devastated by gun violence...[Congress must] repeal gun manufacturers’ immunity from liability. Pass my budget proposal, which would give cities more of the funding they need to fund the police and fund the crime prevention and intervention strategies that can make our cities safer. These are just a few of the steps Congress urgently needs to take to save lives…”

Police Investigators say “multiple” shooters opened fire as throngs of people were streaming out of closing local bars at 2 AM. Authorities are reviewing a video of a large fight that broke out right before the gunfire.

Nationally, there have been 120 mass shootings – defined as four or more people shot or killed, not including the shooter – since the start of 2022, according to the Gun Violence Archives.

Why This Is Important

Primarily, this shooting should be recognized as gang-related. It would require the suspension of reality to begin any query into this event at any other place.

The Sacramento Police Department found more than 100 shell casings at the scene of the shooting, a popular location peppered with bars and restaurants. The number of shell casings points strongly to the use of an already illegal automatic weapon popular with street and drug gangs.

But the point of whether the Martin brothers were gang members or just run-of-the-mill thugs is beside the point. Given that “Smiley” had no issue with punching and whipping his girlfriend with a belt before dragging her into the street by her hair, it is safe to say the Martin brothers don’t have season subscriptions to the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

The overriding point here is that left to their own devices, the weapons used by the Martin brothers would just as well have been door stops to lethal weapons. It is not the gun or the bullet or the type of magazine that kills. It is the person pulling the trigger that kills.

Guns, like knives, swords, and rocks, are inanimate objects that have a plethora of legitimate uses; uses that exclude the taking of human life. It is not until an intent is introduced – an intent exclusive to the human race – that any inanimate object can become a lethal weapon.

I have taken to listening to the Chicago Police Department’s citywide band on a scanner at night from approximately midnight to 2 AM or 3 AM. The calls for “shots fired” are constant and neverending. This is in addition to the litany of calls for domestic violence, assaults, car-jackings, stabbings, and any other type of violent crime you can imagine.

As an aside, all you have to do the understand the extent to which the “Defund the Police” movement is absolute lunacy is to listen to this scanner frequency for one night. Afterward, not only do you begin to understand the thankless job our law enforcement does for us each and every night, you become fully aware that the Black Lives Matter movement is based on fiction and falsehoods.

But I digress.

The overarching commonality in all, as they put it, “gun crimes” is that there is a human being doing the shooting. Guns don’t shoot on their own. There is an owner to every trigger pull. So, the ultimate blame for any mass shooting – or any shooting for that matter, lies exclusively with the person pulling the trigger. It is for this reason we put people on trial and in prison for shooting people, not inanimate objects.

What we suffer from in the United States is not a void of adequate gun laws. We suffer from a society that is all too willing to try to find an excuse for those who own the trigger pull. And when our victimhood-based society does get cornered into holding the owner of the trigger pull accountable, we find reasons to lessen the penalties imposed upon them.

This explains why “Smiley” was paroled from prison on a 10-year sentence even after Deputy District Attorneys told the Board of Parole in 2021, that “inmate Martin’s criminal conduct is violent and lengthy,” vehemently opposing his release. The ideologically disillusioned civilian parole board chose to be unrealistically altruistic. And now, six people are dead and 12 others injured because the Martin brothers' go-to conflict resolution tool is violence.

In a March 2021 interview, The Manhattan Institute’s Heather MacDonald, who has done extensive fact-based research into the data surrounding violent crimes, including numerous deep dives into the FBI crime statistics, said:

“...In New York City, Blacks commit about three-quarters of all shootings, even though they’re twenty-three percent of the population. In Chicago, Blacks commit about 80 percent of all shootings, though they’re less than a third of the population. In Los Angeles, Blacks commit forty-four percent of all violent crime, though they’re nine percent of the population. And in St. Louis, Blacks commit 90 percent of homicides, though they’re four to six percent of the population. These disparities are replicated in every American city, and they mean that the police cannot go where crime is happening to protect minority victims without going disproportionately into minority neighborhoods and interacting disproportionately with Black criminals. Cops don’t wish that reality. It’s forced on them by the facts of crime...”

There are some in the mainstream – and even among those whom I know personally – who will ask if my spotlighting of these facts isn’t an act of racism. To each I say, unabashedly, it is not. These numbers are facts born of reality. I would also add that the claim of racism for anything that has to do with the Black community not being held accountable for its ills is old and no longer holds any legitimacy.

In fact, I will go so far as to reverse the accusation. Aren’t those who refuse to recognize this plague of violence – this provable, fact-based plague of Black-on-Black violence – engaging in a very real form of racism themselves?

This plague of Black-on-Black violent crime is rooted in the fact that the primary tool of conflict resolution in the urban Black community is violence. We saw it among the elite in the Black community in the infamous Will Smith slap of Chris Rock, just as we see it in the events surrounding the Martin brothers in Sacramento, just as we see it each and every night on the streets of Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, St. Louis, and every other urban area in the United States.

Our nation doesn’t have a gun control problem. It has an anger management problem. It is a problem stemming from the falsely elevated levels of self-esteem that our hijacked education system installs into children who can never be allowed to fail; to learn from their failures, and who – because of society’s addiction to bestowing the victimhood label – creates generations who can never be wrong, can never be insulted or offended, who can never be disagreed with...lest they own that trigger pull.

The Second Amendment guarantees the Right to Bear Arms as a “last line of defense” tool for the people to throw off the chains of an oppressive government. Only the disingenuous care to argue this point; a fact clearly understood with even the most elementary of educations on the Constitution.

If we are to stem the slaughter that owns the streets of our urban areas – streets like K and 10th Streets in Sacramento, we need to address the shallow attitude of those who own those trigger pulls and make it more attractive to be creative rather than ignorantly thuggish, homicidal, and destructive.

Of course, that will require our elite to raise the bar and create a more educated and critical thinking populace and that will threaten their grifting grip on power.

UPDATE: The Sacramento Police Department has determined that the mass killing that left six people dead and 12 wounded outside bars just blocks from California’s Capitol last weekend was a gunfight involving at least five shooters from rival gangs

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