Another Stupid Shooting

 So last week there was a shooting in NW Miami Dade -- a beef involving hip hop lyrics caused some knuckleheads to open fire on a party, killing 3. It was the height of idiocy.

This am, it happened closer to home -- College Park shopping center in Kendall. A graduation party at, apparently, a hookah lounge was winding down at 2 am, and another shooting took place. This time one person, a female corrections officer, was killed, and two people, both shot,crashed into a wall at Miami Dade College across Killian Drive, and were killed. It's not clear yet whether the two in the car were the shooters or not -- they did find a gun in the car.

College Park was a big part of our kids' lives. They took dance lessons at a studio there. College Park Inn was a go-to pizza place. Hungry Bear had the best subs in town. And most importantly, our rabbi friend Yossi had his first shul there -- we attended many events at his store front congregation before he moved to permanent headquarters up the road.

I can understand armed robbery -- even wars over drug turf. Money is involved. I even understand mass shootings done by raving lunatics -- like the Vegas shooting, or Parkland.

But these latest are literally about hip hop lyrics. A rapper disses someone in a song, and the dissed gets a few friends and shows up to rake a crowd with automatic gunfire. Really?

Compounding finding solutions, is, unfortunately, the whole Black Lives Matter movement. They focus on bad cops, and tell we whites we ought to all be sickened by them. I am. Bad cops have to go. But it seems to me more Blacks are killed in a single weekend by Black on Black crime than die in several years at the hands of bad cops.

If I had kids and was Black, they simply wouldn't be allowed to go to gatherings anymore if there was a chance that someone in attendance might be connected to some social media hip hop slight.

It's just terrible. Miami Dade has a well meaning, very liberal mayor. She wants to spend millions on youth job programs to hopefully keep the would be shooters on the straight and narrow. Meanwhile, Kionne McGhee, a Commissioner from a poor Black community, said -- hey --- screw that. Give more funding to police -- get them license plate readers. He's all in favor of anti-poverty programs, but right now wants anti-crime programs. I plan to support Mr. McGhee. He seems to get it.

All I know is, I joked that with the plague in great retreat, it's time to get about the business of dying of something else. I just hope it's not being an innocent bystander when these knuckleheads start shooting.

Ah, as the Wicked Witch said, what a world, what a world...