Another illegal alien truck driver allegedly kills Indiana man: taken into custody

Another day, another preventable tragedy on America's roads courtesy of the open-border disaster that's been raging since the Biden-Harris era kicked off, and yes, folks, this one hits close to home in the heartland yet again.

A truck driver was arrested Wednesday after allegedly blowing through a red light and causing a fatal crash in Hendricks County, Indiana, just west of Indianapolis. And surprise, surprise: multiple federal law enforcement sources confirmed that the suspect is an illegal alien from Punjab, India.

Meet Singh Sukhdeep [pronounced 'Suck-Deep'], yet another Sikh who came here illegally and was given the gift of a Commercial Drivers License (CDL) in spite of not knowing much English.

He first got nabbed crossing the U.S. border illegally back in 2018 . . .  as a minor. Thanks to the infamous 1997 Flores consent decree (you know, the Clinton-era gift that keeps on giving), he was promptly released into the interior instead of being detained. Fast-forward to May 2025, and SIngh somehow scores a commercial driver's license. Now he's accused of killing an innocent American.

The crash is straight out of a nightmare. Eyewitnesses told WXIN (that's Fox affiliate KXIN) that Sukhdeep's Freightliner semi-truck, hauling a trailer, barreled through the red light, smashed into a Chevrolet pickup truck, sent it flying across the median, and then it collided with yet another vehicle. The driver of that Chevy pickup, 64-year-old Terry Schultz, was pronounced dead at the scene. A witness at the scene gave him comfort before he passed.

Sukhdeep is now in ICE custody, where he probably should have been years ago. DHS spoke to Fox News: "This tragedy comes less than two weeks after another illegal alien driving a semi-truck killed four innocent people in Indiana. It is incredibly dangerous for illegal aliens, who often don’t know our traffic laws or even English, to be operating semi-trucks on America's roads. These tragedies are 100% preventable and we pray for the family and victim."

So red lights don't mean stop in India? I don't think so--I was there last week and while the driving is on the verge of lunacy, a red light still means 'stop'.

DHS went on to explain the Flores mess: It stemmed from the 1993 Supreme Court case Reno v. Flores, where civil liberties and immigrant rights groups filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of illegal alien children detained in Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) custody. (INS later became USCIS, for those keeping score.) 

The decree basically mandated that kids who crossed illegally had to be released to a parent or adult relative rather than held. The Trump administration tried to kill this outdated policy in 2019, the year after Sukhdeep crashed the scene, but here we are.

And let's not pretend this is isolated. This horror show unfolded just two weeks after another illegal alien truck driver, Bekzhan Beishekeev from Kazakhstan, allegedly killed four people in yet another Indiana crash. That guy entered via the Biden-era CBP One app in 2023, got released, and later picked up a CDL in Pennsylvania.

Then there's last August's case: Indian illegal alien Harjinder Singh, who got his CDL in California, allegedly made an illegal U-turn, jackknifed his rig, and killed three people. He got slapped with three counts of vehicular homicide. The DOT later revealed the guy bombed an English Language Proficiency test, nailing just 2 of 12 verbal questions and identifying only one out of four highway signs correctly.

So who's passing these guys and why isn't that person being investigated?

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These aren't one-offs. They're patterns. They're policy failures with body counts. And every time another family buries a loved one because someone who shouldn't even be here is behind the wheel of an 80,000-pound death machine, the same tired excuses get trotted out.

Enough is enough. Secure the border, enforce the laws, and stop letting these preventable nightmares keep happening on American soil. Pray for Terry Schultz's family, and for the day when common-sense immigration enforcement actually becomes the norm again.

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Poor New Yorkers form breadline-like formation outside "free" grocery store pop-up

Folks, if there's one thing that can make a New Yorker forget about the rent, the rats, and the guy on the subway playing saxophone covers of death metal, it's the promise of free stuff, or at least stuff others have to pay for, And boy, did Polymarket deliver on that front with their little "first free grocery store" stunt in the West Village. Hundreds lined up like it was Black Friday at a Tiffany's liquidation sale, only instead of diamonds, they were fighting over pasta sauce and Tide Pods. [H/T Fox News Digital]

"New Yorkers are in pain," said Nick from Queens, who paid the recently hiked subway fare to get to Greenwich Village, waiting patiently (or as patiently as a Queens guy can) for his shot at some bath soap and laundry glory.

This whole circus popped up on Feb. 12 as a five-day giveaway courtesy of the crypto prediction market folks at Polymarket, who are apparently feeling the regulatory heat in various states, including the Empire State itself. Critics are calling it a not-so-subtle jab at Democratic NYC Mayor and Comrade Zohran Mamdani's grand plan for communist-style city-run grocery stores to combat the soul-crushing cost of living here. Because nothing says "we're serious about affordability" like a billionaire-backed pop-up that runs out of tickets faster than a politician runs out of excuses.

The scene was pure New York chaos: lines wrapping around the block, people showing up before the sun bothered to rise, and that special anxiety over who snags a yellow ticket before the shelves go barren. It's like musical chairs, but the chairs are cans of soup and the music is the sound of security guards yelling.

As the crowd swelled, so did the drama. Fatima told right-of-center Fox News Digital that she rolled up at 9:00 and got the bad news: "They said that they ran out of tickets."

Sherrod from Jamaica, Queens, got the same brush-off: "They told me that they ran out of tickets. I couldn't get no more food.… I couldn't get access to the store."

Security eventually started herding folks away like stray cats: "Let's go people, let's go. Go home. Do not linger, do not look, do not watch. Please go home." So he paid another recently hiked subway fare and went home, we can suppose.

Charming. Nothing says "welcome to our generous giveaway" like being told to flick off. 

For those who scored tickets, it was a supervised shopping spree: pair up with a staffer, fill a blue tote bag, try not to look too greedy. Some loved it. Nick, who somehow landed fourth in line, praised the security: "Security's been phenomenal. This morning, there was a drunk guy over here harassing a lady... the head security guy... got him out of here. Protecting us."

The drunk guy is nowhere to be found and his family might be looking for him.

Others were less impressed. Michael, chilling outside with his chair like he was tailgating the apocalypse, griped about security's "presentation" when dealing with folks from "florid backgrounds," lacking that customer service polish, apparently. He was down to three cups of soup at home and figured the good stuff would be gone by quitting time.

Sumayah from Brooklyn hit it earlier in the week, snagging two dozen eggs and butter before the shelves turned into a ghost town. Out of work for months and on disability, she said this kind of help could save her $600 a month on food and basics. Still, the chaperoned shopping felt weird: "Someone shops with me and I'm kind of uncomfortable with that... they kind of rushed me through things and I couldn’t get all the stuff that I wanted."

It's like, "Do you really need that? Someone in greater need might need that quart of milk--put it back."

But overall? "Very much needed in New York" because it's free for those getting their ticket.

The turnout proved how desperate things are. Word spreads faster than a funny rash one can get sitting bare-butt on the D train. Sumayah even met someone fresh off a plane from India: "‘Oh my God, I'm in line. I'm coming to get free food.' I'm thinking like, how should I get back on the plane with that?"

Of course, the food in India is extremely cheap and delicious--I returned from India last week and you can have a huge meal for about 5 US bucks. Just don't forget to drink bottled water.

Everyone, ticket or no ticket, hammered the same point: food prices here are insane. Jaquan, homeless and riding the A train in, used to drop $300–500 on groceries living with Mom. Monique blew $200 recently and "didn’t even get much." Sherrod's family of four rings up $400–500 a month. Nick switched to fast food and it's wrecking his health, plus he's a month behind on his phone bill because groceries win every time.

The lucky 300+ who made it inside? Ecstatic. Nick emerged thrilled: "I got the spaghetti. I got orange juice. I like orange juice. I also got some ground beef. They had grass-fed ground beef, they had lean ground beef and the regular ground beef, so I'm really glad I got that. I'm really glad I got the grass-fed."

Polymarket [perverse] says they funded the whole thing, tossed $1 million to the Food Bank for New York City, and even handed out $50 gift cards to the folks stuck at the back of the line. How accommodating.

Shoppers saw it as a teachable moment for Mamdani and his city-owned store dreams: better security, no running out of food, crack down on line-cutters, put them in actual food deserts instead of fancy Manhattan blocks.

Because nothing screams "progressive utopia" like a crypto stunt showing exactly why government grocery stores might end in the same ticket frenzy, security shouts, and dashed hopes.

New Yorkers are in pain, alright. And free Tide Pods aren't fixing it because they still aren't edible, kids. 

So where is the money going to come from to pay for "free" groceries? From us, the taxpayers. And in order to pay for it the taxes are going to need to rise, and with Comrade Mamdani as Mayor, they will--at least the property taxes, because that's all he is allowed to raise. He will try to get NY Gov. Hochul on his communist bandwagon, and with elections coming up for her, it's doubtful she'll go along with his demands. 

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But if he raises property taxes the 9.5% he's saying, this will raise a lot of Big Apple hackles and he might even be challenged by the governor for possible removal from office. I've heard rumors but will not take them seriously unless I see some legal movement to end this communist regime.

Free food is not a bad thing, but it's a no-such thing. Nothing is free and someone has to pay for it. This will drive the richest New Yorkers to think twice about where they want to live.

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How Zohran Mamdani can be removed from office

This smile is the main reason he got elected

I asked Grok this question: Can New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani be removed from office? The following is what the AI responded and put in my own words:

The New York City mayor can't be "impeached" in the way we think of the term from the federal level or even the state governor's process; no legislative trial, no articles voted up or down by a City Council acting as a Senate. The NYC Charter and state law don't provide for anything that dramatic or theatrical. Instead, there are two paths to showing a mayor the door, and both are more about removal for cause than a full-blown political spectacle.

First, and by far the most straightforward (if politically explosive), is the governor's power. 

Under Section 9 of the City Charter, and backed by the state Constitution (Article XIII, sections 5 and 13) plus Public Officers Law §33, the governor of New York can simply remove the mayor. It's broad, almost sweeping authority with remarkably few guardrails. The process is this: the governor lays out charges (misconduct, corruption, dereliction of duty, whatever the executive deems sufficient), serves them on the mayor, and gives the target a chance to respond at a hearing. While that's pending, the governor can suspend the mayor for up to 30 days. If the charges stick after due process, out goes the mayor.

This isn't some theoretical relic; it's real authority, exercised rarely but memorably. Think back to 1932, when Governor Franklin Roosevelt had Mayor Jimmy Walker in his sights over bribery and corruption allegations. Walker resigned before the axe fell, but the threat was credible. Courts haven't cabined this power much, so the governor has wide discretion on what qualifies as removable offenses. In the context of recent events (say, federal indictments hanging over City Hall), people have pointed to Governor Kathy Hochul's leverage here, even if political realities make pulling the trigger a high-wire act. It's easy on paper, potentially devastating in practice.

The second route is the City Charter's "Committee on Mayoral Inability," a clunkier, more internal mechanism designed for incapacity rather than outright malfeasance. This five-member panel includes the Corporation Counsel, the Comptroller, the City Council Speaker, a deputy mayor picked by the sitting mayor (talk about a potential conflict), and the longest-serving borough president. 

If four out of five agree that the mayor is temporarily or permanently unable to discharge the duties of the office, whether from health issues, legal entanglements that paralyze governance, or misconduct that renders effective leadership impossible, they can refer it to the full City Council.

Then the Council weighs in: a two-thirds vote (at least 34 of 51 members) is needed to confirm permanent removal or a suspension. It's a high bar, deliberately so, to avoid rash or partisan overreach. No mayor has ever been permanently ousted this way, which tells you how politically fraught and logistically challenging it would be, especially with that mayor-selected deputy potentially acting as a loyal blocker. But no mayor has been so far to the left and so obviously antisemitic as the present clown in office.

In either scenario, removal doesn't require a criminal conviction; charges or a finding of incapacity suffice, with due process baked in to satisfy constitutional concerns. If it happens, the Public Advocate steps in as acting mayor, and a special election follows for a permanent replacement. The system prioritizes stability over swift political justice; stability for the city, headaches for everyone else involved.

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Bottom line: no impeachment circus, just two very different levers, one gubernatorial sledgehammer, one cumbersome city committee, and neither gets pulled lightly. But when the pressure builds, as it has in recent years, those options suddenly look a lot more real.

The garbage is piling up on the streets; five thousand NYPD hiring slots are not going to be filled; and the calls to Islamic prayer are being blasted on city streets. 

The dead from 911 are rolling in their graves.

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Minneapolis' economy circles the bowl at a $203 million loss

Minneapolis city officials just dropped a bombshell preliminary report, claiming the feds' massive immigration crackdown (Operation Metro Surge) slammed the local economy with an estimated $203 million hit in January 2026 alone (and spilling into the roughly 11-week operation overall).

Leftist Mayor Jacob Frey called the damage "staggering" and firing off a direct challenge: "Was this operation, that has inflicted so much damage on our city that we can indeed calculate in real dollars, was it worth it?" 
Frey and other incompetent leaders are now begging for federal and state cash to bail them out, insisting the totals are likely lowball estimates and don't capture the full pain.

Breaking down the city's math on the wreckage: Small businesses and restaurants got hammered hardest, bleeding $81 million (some accounts nudge it to $82 million) in lost revenue. Fear kept customers away, foot traffic tanked, and entire stretches of the city turned into ghost towns.
Workers, illegal aliens and citizens alike, stayed home scared, costing $47 million in lost wages.
Throw in extras like $4.7 million+ in hotel cancellations stretching into summer, plus spikes in social services demands, police overtime, and other ripple effects, and you hit that eye-popping $203.1 million "impact" figure.
Congrats Dems; you really know how to make your screw ups hit record proportions.
Frey hammered the point home: "Families were torn apart, small businesses lost millions and students had their learning disrupted." He framed the whole surge, with up to 3,000 federal agents flooding neighborhoods, as something that "stoked fear and ultimately chaos in the communities that we love," adding, "The damage caused by this operation doesn’t disappear just because the operation is ending."
This fresh mess surfaced in mid-February 2026, straight from the city's own preliminary assessment, and got splashed across local media like the Star Tribune, KSTP, FOX 9, and more. 

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Important note: These are estimated economic damages from reduced activity, not a straight punch to the city's budget or tax haul, though it obviously drags those down indirectly. And no, this has zero connection to the 2020 George Floyd riots (which racked up far bigger regional damage numbers in the hundreds of millions to over half a billion). 

This one's tied squarely to the 2025-2026 ICE operation and its fallout in immigrant-heavy communities.

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FAA orders merit-based hiring, not DEI, at airlines

In what the Trump administration is calling a long-overdue reversal of Biden-era nonsense, the FAA just dropped a hammer on commercial airlines: starting now, they have to commit to straight-up merit-based hiring for pilots or risk a federal investigation. No more D.E.I. hires whose greatest asset is their skin color and/or gender.

The mandate rolled out in the form of a new mandatory Operations Specification, cleverly dubbed OpSpec A134. For Part 121 carriers (that's your major airlines), it means certifying that pilot hiring is based exclusively on merit, things like real experience, technical aptitude, and the actual qualifications that keep planes in the sky safely. The clock starts ticking 30 days from February 13.

What a concept!

"While the FAA has raised performance standards, dismantled DEI offices and contracts, and revised absurd Biden-Buttigieg era directives that wasted time renaming cockpits to flight decks, allegations of airlines hiring based on race and sex remain," the FAA said. "Under this new mandate, all U.S. carriers will be required to certify that this practice is terminated. Failure to do so will subject airlines to federal investigation."

This move fits perfectly with President Trump's push to gut diversity, equity, and inclusion programs across the federal government. The current DOT leadership has been hammering home the point that the previous administration blew billions on feel-good diversity initiatives that delivered zilch, all while critical infrastructure like the air traffic control system rotted.

"When families board their aircraft, they should fly with confidence knowing the pilot behind the controls is the best of the best," Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said in a statement. "The American people don’t care what their pilot looks like or their gender, they just care that they are the most qualified man or woman for the job."

Look, some airlines have rolled out recruitment programs and training pipelines targeting women and minority pilots in an industry that's still overwhelmingly male and white. But let's be clear: there's zero evidence anyone's been waving safety requirements to hit quotas, and the FAA hasn't exactly flooded the zone with specifics on those "allegations" it's citing.

The Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA), the biggest pilots' union in the country, fired back quickly. Officials stressed that every one of their members flying Part 121 ops has to meet the exact same rigorous training, testing, and qualification standards and no exceptions.

"All ALPA pilots are trained and evaluated to the same uncompromising standard regardless of race, gender, or background," said president Jason Ambrosi. "A pilot's identity has no bearing on their ability to safely operate an aircraft. What matters is training, experience, and qualification, and on that front, there are no shortcuts and no compromises."

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Bottom line: the administration is making it official that safety trumps everything else, and if you're an airline, you'd better get on board with merit-only hiring fast.

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Reporter flips 'the bird' at Marco Rubio

Thomas Escritt

They're not supposed to pick sides, are they? The media's sacred duty is impartiality and all that noble nonsense. But let's not kid ourselves; that ship sailed, sank, and got turned into reef long ago. 

They take sides and they don't hide it.

Exhibit A: this Bloomberg reporter, Thomas Escritt, now enjoying his fifteen minutes of viral infamy for all the wrong reasons. Caught on camera flipping off Secretary of State Marco Rubio during a press conference with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban in Budapest on February 16. 

Classy move in the front row, no less.

It's not exactly breaking news that the establishment press corps is a dumpster fire, but moments like this just add another charming footnote to their obituary. They still haven't figured out what hit them with Donald Trump's rise or the similar populist waves rolling across Europe. They keep wagering that this whole thing is a passing fad, like low-rise jeans or whatever else they missed the memo on.

As an aside, if you're going to throw someone the bird, at least commit to it with some dignity instead of spaz-flailing like a malfunctioning robot. The guy has since locked his X account, which is the modern equivalent of hiding under the desk. 

Will he get fired? Now that would be the real shocker, wouldn't it? Color me skeptical. The media hates us. We don't care.

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Another trans shooting in Rhode Island: 2 dead, 3 critically injured

Robert Dorgan, who went by the name Roberta Esposito, had a documented history of mental illness, in addition to gender dysphoria, which is also a mental disorder.

Two people were killed and at least three others critically injured after a man who identifies as a woman opened fire at a high school hockey game in Rhode Island.

Pawtucket Police Chief Tina Goncalves confirmed in a Monday evening press conference that Robert Dorgan, killed himself after what she said was likely a targeted shooting stemming from a family dispute. A clip circulating on social media appears to show Dorgan's daughter leaving a police station and telling reporters that her father "shot my family" and "he's dead now."  The woman added that Dorgan "has mental health issues," and "was very sick." [Yah think?]

Court records from 2020 confirm that Dorgan had undergone gender reassignment surgery, a fancy term that indicates his penis and testicles were surgically mutilated and reshaped to sort of look like a woman's genitalia.

Dorgan claimed to North Providence Police at the time that his father-in-law attempted to throw him out of the house following his surgery. Around that time, Dorgan's wife filed for divorce, initially citing "gender reassignment surgery, narcissistic + personality disorder traits" as the reason before crossing them out and writing "irreconcilable differences."

Authorities have not publicly identified the victims, nor have they confirmed the precise relationships involved in the apparent family dispute. Police have also not released information about the weapon used.

This is the latest shooting perpetrated by a transgender-identifying attacker. Earlier this month, a man who thought he was a woman and wore a dress to somehow prove it to himself, killed 10 people at a Canadian school. 

Transgender-identifying shooters perpetrated deadly attacks on schools in Nashville in 2023 and in Minneapolis in 2025. The latter attack was the subject of the last question Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk was asked when he was assassinated in September.

Kirk's killer, Tyler Robinson, was, at the time of the attack, living with his so-called "transgender partner," a man named Lance Twiggs, a guy with gender dysphoria. 

The Trump administration was reportedly considering a ban on gun ownership for transgender-identifying people in the wake of the Minneapolis shooting, but that ban has seemingly stalled. 

A source familiar with the Trump administration's thinking said that the topic is not something that they have heard discussed since conservative outlet, The Daily Wire originally reported it in September. 

Monday's shooting occurred at the Dennis M. Lynch Arena during a game involving multiple high school teams. Pawtucket Police Chief Tina Goncalves said the suspected gunman is also dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound. Federal authorities, including the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, responded to assist state and local law enforcement at the Dennis M. Lynch Arena on Monday. 

Police said shots were fired inside the arena while spectators and players were present for what had been scheduled as a senior night celebration for the Blackstone Valley Schools cooperative hockey team. "You don’t know what’s going on at first," Melissa Dunn, the mother of one player, told reporters. "You just hear the loud noises … then you realize something is very wrong." 

A player who was on the ice at the time said multiple shots were fired and that players ran to the locker room for safety. :We pressed against the door and just tried to stay safe," he said. "It was very scary." 

Pawtucket Mayor Donald Grebien intelligently called the shooting "a terrible tragedy" and said the city is working closely with law enforcement and the Rhode Island attorney general's office.

"What should have been a joyful occasion … was instead marked by violence and fear," Grebien said. "Tonight, Pawtucket is a city in mourning."

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Teen hero murdered in the Bronx by teens with guns

A tragic and utterly senseless shooting [aren't they all] in the Bronx has left a 16-year-old aspiring football star dead after he heroically stepped in to shield his friends from a group of illegally armed thugs, yet another grim chapter in the borough's spiraling youth violence epidemic that has residents fed up and demanding real action from city leaders, including their communist mayor.

Christopher Redding, a talented player on the John F. Kennedy High School tackle football team and the Fastbreak flag football squad (with prior stints on the Bronx Colts and LBX teams), paid the ultimate price for his courage. 

According to a GoFundMe page set up by his coach, "Christopher was defending his friends who were being targeted by a group of individuals who then opened fire on them in the Bronx. His last act on earth was one of courage and selflessness, protecting those he cared about."

The chaos unfolded last Wednesday after school dismissal near a bus stop in Kingsbridge, where crowds of teens had gathered. What started as a street dispute quickly escalated, because, as Bronx Borough President Vanessa Gibson bluntly put it, "This started out as some sort of fight on the street, and it escalated. And, guess what, someone had a gun. That is usually the issue." Gibson added that there's been "too much violence among young adults." But just how much is too much?

Police say four suspects, three males and one female, were involved. It's not yet known if these thugs identify correctly according to their actual gender.

The NYPD released footage of the group, and on Saturday, authorities nabbed a 17-year-old male connected to the incident. He's now staring down a laundry list of serious charges: murder, attempted murder, manslaughter, assault, and criminal possession of a loaded firearm. Two other young victims, a 15-year-old boy and a 13-year-old girl, were shot in the right leg and are stable in the hospital. 

Local resident Regina Hall witnessed the panic from her window: after five gunshots rang out, she saw "hundreds and hundreds of kids" waiting for the bus scatter in terror. "You can't come to the stores," she told reporters. "I had a friend that went to the drug store, and she had to try to run from across the street there to here to get to her house." She described regular teen brawls spilling into the streets and noted the noticeable drop in police presence thanks to Mayor Mamdani: "I used to see a lot of policemen around here. But it's, you know, can't say anymore." 

The community is reeling, and frustration is boiling over toward city leadership. Redding's grieving father, Bryan Corley spoke to the New York Post about the remaining suspects still on the loose: "They're still out there, and nothing is really being done. Mayor Mamdani saying that the police is doing a good job. They're not doing a good job. It's disgusting." 

When asked if Mamdani's office had even reached out to the family, he said simply: "no." For his part, Comrade Mamdani addressed the recent Bronx shootings last Thursday, calling them "heartbreaking and horrific" and adding, "I am thankful for the work of the NYPD not only in responding to them but also in the actions they are taking to ensure that we work to prevent them in the future."

District Council Member Eric Dinowitz struck a more urgent tone on X: "guns in the hands of high school students should never be the reality, and we must put an end to this senseless violence." He added that with a new mayoral administration, "we have an opportunity to address this crisis once and for all. My colleagues and I in the City Council will do everything we can to support an anti-gun violence agenda that addresses the root causes and saves lives."

He failed to mention how this would be addressed in terms of getting illegal guns off the streets. It isn't as though criminals are going to give up their guns, and gun laws seem to only apply to law abiding citizens.

Gibson echoed the sentiment, noting the borough has seen a troubling rise in gun violence [as if it's the guns that are violent, not the shooters] that has "leaving too many of our families and community members feeling unsafe in their own neighborhoods."

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This isn't just another statistic, it's a heartbreaking loss of a promising young life cut short in an avoidable explosion of street-level stupidity and easy access to firearms among the youth. 

The guns don't commit the violence and the problem isn't just with access to them. The problem starts at home where, for example, missing fathers have no influence on their sons and daughters. The problem is primarily a social problem where cops are vilified and guns are glorified.

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