Guns Aren't the Problem. It's People Like This Who Are.

I don't exactly hide where I'm from, which might be a strategically stupid move on my part considering there are some absolute creeps out there who don't like me very much, including some on our side of the aisle. I do it because I kind of suck at not sharing parts of myself, including that I live where I live. It doesn't normally become much of a thing because, well, it's a big country and there's a lot of news out there. Most of what happens here is about as interesting to you all as Lena Dunham doing a spread for Playboy.

Ugh.

But something happened here recently that, frankly, should have been a bigger story than it was. A 15-year-old kid was beaten to death.

According to authorities, officers arrived at the scene and found a teen dead inside an abandoned home. The victim was later identified as 15-year-old Austin Payne.

On Wednesday, investigators say they identified three teens and one 22-year-old as suspects in connection with Payne's death.

Officers arrested and charged 15-year-old Jansquincey Donaldson, 15-year-old Omari Marion, 16-year-old Adarious Wallace, and 22-year-old Detravion Parker with murder.

Because of the nature of the crimes, we've got details about those arrested we might not ordinarily get when juveniles are involved.

What pisses me off is that this was a white kid beaten by four black people, and that's a local story that few of you even heard about, but a couple of college girls made some monkey noises on a Ring camera, and that is a freaking national scandal. Yes, it pisses me off. I'm not saying anything about the two girls, mostly because I don't know enough about what the deal was to comment. It could have been a commentary on feeling like you're a monkey in the zoo with all the video cameras watching you, or it might have been racist. I don't know, and, frankly, I don't care right now.

What I care about is a 15-year-old kid — a child about the same age as my daughter — being murdered by four people, one of whom was an adult, 10 minutes from where I live. Especially as there's a possible racial component here, too.

There was no gun involved. There wasn't a firearm anywhere in the vicinity so far as I can tell. This wasn't a "gun crime."

It doesn't make Payne any less murdered, though, does it?

The problem we have with violence doesn't stem from the weapons available. Peaceful people can possess a rocket launcher and never hurt a soul with it, while four alleged murderers can use their hands and feet to murder a child, one of their peers. 

Cain slew Abel long before guns were a thing. Julius Ceasar was murdered by knife-wielding peers long before the firearm was invented. The history of murder predates the invention of gunpowder by millennia. What's been constant in all of this is that there were broken people who had no respect for human life.

If the so-called violence prevention people actually gave a damn about preventing violence, this is something they'd be talking about. This is children murdering children (allegedly). This is a tragedy of epic proportions, and yet I hear nothing from the media about this. I've waited to hear something, and nada.

I'm sick to my stomach thinking about this, and what this actually means about the world we live in.

Luckily, our new attorney general plans to focus on grocery stores instead of the violence that's still too prevalent in this state.

Editor’s Note: The American people overwhelmingly support President Trump’s law and order agenda.

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