Left Piles On After Tragic Shooting Of Children — Can You Spot Their ‘Mistake’?

There’s a real simple test to see if someone claiming to support ‘justice’ is telling the truth. Is there meaningful alignment between the problems they want to solve and the solutions they expect us to adopt?

The problem begins right at the beginning, in how the story is framed. The headlines and the story do more than answer the all-important ‘Five-W’s and How’ of classic reporting. It reaches beyond that to the way you are supposed to feel about a tragic story from this weekend.

The headlines COULD have told us that a “Man Murdered Eight Children Before Police Shoot Him Dead”. That’s an honest headline. It invites further questions about where those children were, how old they were. How did a dangerous man find himself in the presence of so many victims. Where there no adults around to intervene?

The headline might have taken us a little further. Father Murders 8 Kids Before Cops Stop Him Cold. Now we’re seeing that this was a murder-suicide situation. This was targeted and intentional, not a random malicious attacker. We have answered the question about why no other adult intervened (where was the mom?) But we still don’t know whether any may have gotten away, or if not, what kept them from fleeing to some kind of a safe hiding spot.

A quick summary of the actual story (as told here) goes something like this:

Shreveport Police are describing as ‘domestic violence’, a situation in which 8 children ages 3-11 were killed. The suspect, Shamar Elkins shot and seriously injured two women (thought to be his wife and his girlfriend). Elkins, a known felon, was father of seven of the eight children, and cousin to the other child.

Elkins, the lone suspect went first to one address, shot the woman outside at around 6am. Next, went to the other address nearby, where he shot a woman and all the kids inside. Many of them were asleep in their beds when they were shot in the head. At least one child fled to the roof, where his body was later located.

The wife, reportedly mother of 7 of the children, had been shot in the face.

The suspect had priors, including a 2019 arrest and conviction for unlawful use of a firearm.

Here’s a chilling family photo.

How did the left respond? Exactly as you would expect.

Shooter wasn’t white, meaning they can’t run the racism angle. It was historically a ‘quiet’ neighbourhood. So what’s left? It MUST be the gun’s fault. Right?

That’s what Gavin’s social media team ran with, even before the bodies were cold.

Preventable moral failure?

Are you SURE the NRA is where you should be pointing your fingers? Or should we be looking at the ‘moral failures’ of your party’s soft-on-crime brigade?

Had authorities taken his crimes more seriously, he could never have lawfully acquired a firearm. (Nor is it yet clear that his was lawfully acquired) More to the point, he would have been locked up for at least some of the time he was busy populating the planet with his own future victims.

Don’t blame the NRA for this, Gavin.

The NRA has strong opinions about the need for gun owners to be law-abiding. They support guns being stripped from felons, especially those with a history of unlawful use of firearms.

Instead, you could look long and hard at the prosecutors, judges, and party that throws its support behind prioritizing the release of felons over the protection of law-abiding citizens.

In this instance, far from ‘securing the rights of a ‘victim’ who eventually had to be put down like a rabid dog, the ‘soft on crime’ approach to this case led to the needless deaths of 8 children, and serious bodily harm to two women who had the grave misfortune of knowing him intimately.