More information continues to come forward about America's largest "mass shooting" to date last Sunday morning. Gang violence there claimed one life and left 16 others wounded in a single incident at the Cameo hip-hop club. Believe it or not, Cincinnati's cops received over 600 service calls to Cameo nightclub in the past five years.
Over 600 calls. That's ten per month for five years. From the Enquirer (Caution on link: Autoplay video):
Cincinnati police responded to Cameo nightclub more than 600 times in the past five years for all manner of reasons, ranging from off-duty police details to reports of fights, assaults or shots fired, newly released records show.
The calls included dozens of reports of fights, assaults, shootings, disorderly conduct. More reports have come in about armed individuals, thefts, and of course, the big bash Sunday morning. All of this happened at a club that has a "no guns" sign on the front door.
In a club that held about 200 people, news reports Sunday told of how the ATF sent agents to run emergency traces on the many guns left inside by people fleeing the (gun-free) establishment. Because, you know, law-abiding gun owners leave their guns behind when they leave someplace in a hurry.
Of course, politicians in Cincinnati sit back and wring their hands. Police have no suspects in custody, despite the fact that two hundred plus people were crowded into the club when the shots rang out. The "no snitch" culture runs strong there.
The local bird cage liner, the Cincinnati Enquirer wrote a scathing editorial. (Caution on link: Autoplay video)
Cameo nightclub shooting feels like an act of terror
Sunday morning’s mass shooting at the Cameo nightclub that injured 17 people – one fatally – was an act of domestic terrorism, plain and simple.
Agreed. It's domestic terror perpetrated by gang members.
Some 200 ordinary people went out for a night of music and fun but instead found themselves dodging bullets. That’s terrorism. Maybe not according to the common definition, but for those inside Cameo who felt intense fear for their lives, it's doubtful that definitions mattered in that moment.
We hear a lot from politicians these days about the threat of a foreign enemy, yet terrorism happens every day on city streets around the country.
Yup. And spilling a little more ink lamenting gang violence without taking meaningful steps to combat it is just, well, wasting more ink.
This madness has to stop. Too many lives are lost every year in Cincinnati and nationwide to savage, mindless and inhuman gun violence. Mass shootings in America, tragically, are becoming too commonplace. We no longer wonder if a shooting will happen but rather when and where. Unfortunately, the latest and largest one in the United States this year just landed on Cincinnati's doorstep.
Maybe we should put up a NO GUNS sign. That will stop it, just as surely as pounding a table and demanding "This madness has to stop!"
Oh wait. This joint had a no guns sign. You mean criminals don't obey signs, rules and laws?
In this time of tragedy, let's not yield to the typical knee-jerk reactions that focus solely on the race of the individuals involved or call for the closing of business establishments. The reality is no business or neighborhood is exempt from this type of reckless behavior. Sunday’s shooting could just as easily have happened at a local mall, restaurant or community event should these warring factions have collided there.
Race has nothing to do with the violence in that club. The content of the character, or absence thereof, among the patrons inside contributed to the senseless gang violence.
… Everybody who goes out on the town for a night of fun, whether to a ballgame, restaurant, movie theater or nightclub, should have a reasonable expectation of leaving those venues alive. Anything to the contrary, as Mayor John Cranley said, is unacceptable.
Someone should tip off the Enquirer that it's not up to the nanny state politicians to promise what they can't deliver. It's up to everyday people to use prudence and common sense before heading out to a venue. Spending one's time and money at a location that has 600 service calls in the past five years is not wise or prudent.
When you go swim in shark-infested waters, you can expect to get bit.
When you go play in a gangster-infested club, with drinking, dope-smoking and bad boy chasing girls, you can expect to get victimized if you're lucky and dead if you're not.
More willful blindness. Race has nothing to do with it? A group that accounts for 13% of the population, but is committing the majority of the violent in this nation? The black population will continue this cycle of violence, dependence and poverty if Democrats and the media refuse to even acknowledge the problem. The savagery will continue, and continue to get worse. They won't change because there is no incentive to change, why have a job and be responsible and accountable for your actions if you don't have to. All they have to do is vote Democrat and the subsidization of their existence continues. All the while innocent victims suffer at their hands. It's time for a drastic change in their culture.
"Let's not focus solely on the race of the individuals involved"?
Kind of hard not to. The violence in Chitcago is pretty solely one race/culture. We can't ignore the fact there, so why here?
Hip Hop music hypes drugs and violence, sex and profanity and rapping about the street culture of the people who go to these clubs. These clubs might attract some good people at first but then are over run with gang bangers and trash. Guns or no guns, these clubs will be trouble. There will mostl likely be violence as it is the nature of the beast.
"This madness has to stop", and what do we hear after that- silence, except for the sounds our decaying cities make as they die. Oh yeah we also hear the Democats crying out the gun did it. What happen to "see something, say something" .
I see a bunch of scumbags acting like uncivilized beasts. 600 calls in 5 years?
Burn that place down.
Just common people, this could happen anywhere. Just common thugs, and 90% of people wouldn't go near this place. My dream is the elimination of gun free zones.
99.44% of decent people, at least.
I just saw where Missouri. Is gearing up
to hold gun free zone owners to be liable for injuries in their gun free establishments. There you go illinois ———- try to get that one passed in Illinois !!!!