The Left is right now dunking on DeSantis because there was a mass casualty event in Hollywood, Florida.

DeSantis signed a permit-less carry bill in April that removes requirements for:
-background checks
-instruction
-training+oversight

Until our leaders have the courage to stop bowing down to the NRA and enact common sense gun safety this kind of senseless violence will continue. https://t.co/iX6ryxsPwv

— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) May 30, 2023

It’s going to be out of the news cycle by day’s end.

Three children among at least nine people shot as gunfire between two groups erupts on packed Florida boardwalk sending crowds frantically fleeing for their lives on Memorial Day weekend

At least nine people, including three minors, were injured in a Memorial Day shooting on a packed Florida boardwalk.

Authorities say a dispute between two groups ended in gunfire at around 6.45pm Monday in the area of the 1200 block of North Boardwalk in Hollywood Beach, north of Miami. One suspect has been detained, while another is still at large.

Two groups had a shoot out in Hollywood Beach?

I know where this is going.

In the meantime, investigators are asking for the public’s help in finding the suspect, who is described as a black male with dreadlocks who was last seen wearing a black short sleeve shirt and camouflage shorts.

Yup.

Hollywood Beach is one of the skeezier sections of that stretch of coastline.

This was a gang shooting, and you know the media treats this sort of violence.

They made a rookie level mistake:

Try harder FED intern…

This is a follow-up to my post from yesterday.

EXCLUSIVE: Heartbroken fiancée of dad murdered on his doorstep says attackers beat him as he lay unconscious on the ground and then told his 12-year-old ‘sorry, call 911’ before fleeing – with blood stain still visible on sidewalk

Tracy Karopchinsky, 44, described how Christopher Wright, 43, was killed on his doorstep by five bullies after being dragged into a fight that started at Brooklyn Park Middle School and moved to his house in Anne Arundel County.

The attackers – comprising of three teenagers and two adults – continued to punch Wright, who was already unconscious and bleeding out, before they fled the scene. They told his 12-year-old son: ‘I’m sorry, call 911.’

Remnants of Wright’s blood still stained the ground outside their home.

Their son Trenton, 14, got into conflict with another teen at the school on Friday, before three adolescents and two adults showed up at her Maryland home.

Her fiancé, who was a stay at home dad, told the group their son would not be fighting, to which they are said to have replied: ‘If he’s not going to fight, then you’re going to fight us.’

Wright was then horrifically beaten by the group and had his head repeatedly slammed against the concrete outside his home as his 12-year-old son watched.

‘According to one of my sons, he looked over and seen his Dad was laying on the ground and not moving and the guy was still fighting him and hitting him as Chris lay there.

‘Then he heard him [the attacker] say “Oh my god he is bleeding”, he handed my son Chris’ necklaces that had somehow come off and said, “I am sorry, call 911”.

‘My youngest son came out screaming and they got into their car and left.’

First point to note, fist fights are deadly.  Neither the attackers or the victim expected this to end in a murder.  Society doesn’t take unarmed fights seriously, probably because we are used to depictions in movies whete people get beat up and are fine five minutes later.  In real life, they result in fatal brain damage.

Wright’s son Trenton had been in multiple fights at school before the group tried to approach him at home. He was suspended from school on Monday following a separate fight.

One of the fights, which occurred on Wednesday, was over $30. A kid, who was not related to the fatal attack, is said to have come up to Trenton at school and said: ‘I stole $30 from your girlfriend.’

The 14-year-old boy then tried to get the $30 back, and hit the teenager.

On Friday, when he went back to school, he was being harassed by a group of teens, who were some of those who turned up on his doorstep.

Second point, the son is clearly the victim of persistent bullying and harassment.  The bullies wanted to finish at his home what they didn’t at his school.

Recalling the hours before the horror, Karopchinsky told DailyMail.com: ‘My son went to school, Chris had to reinstate him as he had been suspended for something different. He was involved in multiple fights throughout the day, somebody came into his classroom to fight, and a teacher had to pull the kid off him.

‘He made it through, came home, went upstairs to tell his older brother what was happening throughout the day. They heard voices outside from their bedroom upstairs and the boys were outside, these were my son’s friends prior to the incident.

‘Their dad went inside and said your friends are here, he told them these aren’t my friends. Chris came outside, he told them he is not coming out to fight you. They said if he doesn’t come out, we are coming inside the house and we are going to fight them in there.

‘Chris told them he is not coming out and you are not coming into my house. Then they said well you are going to fight.

‘They started to fight, and the end result was Chris was not walking away.’

Note the part in bold.

Wright and his son were safe inside and the bullies, teenagers and adults, threated to forcefully enter the home and beat up the boy.

I would have been standing behind my front door with a shotgun, waving at them through the glass, talking to the cops on speaker phone.

I don’t think that in even the most progressive jurisdictions in the US, you will get prosecuted for shooting a group of people who state on your security camera that they want to break into your house to beat your child.

Let them break your perimeter and thereby justify dealing with the bullies with buckshot.

Wright, I honestly believe thought that he was doing the noble thing, but stepped out into being the victim of a murder.

Don’t break your perimeter, make your attackers break your perimeter, and prepare to repel borders.

https://twitter.com/AZ_TeeTime/status/1660969193389559808?s=20

She started to drive away, then stopped and opened the door, so legally, it’s probably not a good shoot.

On the other hand, I shed no tears for a guy who sucker punches women.

Perhaps a hard slap on the wrist with a wet noodle is warranted here.

??? Brand new Uvalde law enforcement body camera footage shows officers vomiting and sobbing outside after they entered the classroom.

After a months long investigation into why police hesitated during the Uvalde school shooting, the answer is the police were afraid to… pic.twitter.com/qpMNlz7OML

— CALL TO ACTIVISM (@CalltoActivism) May 24, 2023

They had armor plates and ARs but couldn’t go into the classroom to stop the shooter.

Afterwards they cried and vomited.

This is supposed to make me feel sorry for them?

I hope each and every one of these officers has nightmares about what they saw every night for the rest of their miserable lives until they suck-start their service weapon.

This is absolutely tragic.

PICTURED: Maryland doorstep where dad was beaten to death protecting son, 14, after high school bullies – and two ADULTS – showed up and repeatedly slammed his head into concrete in front of 12-year-old son

A father was killed on his doorstep, trying to defend his 14-year-old son after a fight broke out at a local school and a group swarmed on his Maryland home.

Christopher Wright, 43, was dragged into a fight that started at Brooklyn Park Middle School and moved to his house in Anne Arundel County, his fiancée Tracy Karopchinsky claims.

She says her 14-year-old son Trenton got into conflict with another teen at the school on Friday, before three adolescents and two adults showed up at her home.

Her husband told the group their son would not be fighting, to which they are said to have replied: ‘If he’s not going to fight, then you’re going to fight us.’

Wright was horrifically beaten by the group and had his head repeatedly slammed against the concrete outside his home as his 12-year-old son watched.

Wright was taken to a trauma center. He was pronounced dead on Saturday after sustaining a traumatic brain injury.

Here is a video from the local news:

If I’m understanding this correctly, the family was inside the house.

The teens who started the fight with the Wright’s son, and two other adults, came to the house to demand the son step outside and fight.

Wright refused to let his son fight, then went outside to fight himself.

At that point he was ganged up on and killed.

The situation here was quite similar, they are safe inside, the aggressors are outside, keep it that way and call the police.

Even if the aggressors threatened to come in, so what?  Now Castle Doctrine applies. People breaking into your house to beat up your child are fair game for yeeting.

This man did, what I can only assume he believed was noble, a very stupid thing, and stepped outside and was beat to death in front of his children.

Don’t break your own perimeter.

Stay inside where it’s safe and prepare to defend your home.

First:

Florida man, 72, has his right leg ripped off below the knee in horrific alligator attack: Two reptiles are shot dead in the water including one with a foot protruding from its mouth

A Florida man had his right leg ripped off below the knee in horrific alligator attack before wildlife officials shot dead two huge predators.

The man, 72, whose identity was not disclosed, was working outside his Titusville home on Friday afternoon with his wife and dog when the huge gator emerged from the canal.

When deputies from the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office arrived at his home located at the Great Outdoors Nature, RV and Golf Resort, they found the gator in the water with the man’s foot protruding from its mouth.

Second:

‘I lost an arm, it’s not the end of the world’: Man, 23, maimed by 10ft alligator after falling into a pond behind a Florida bar when he went to relieve himself outside because restroom line was too long

A 23-year-old man lost his arm when he was attacked by a 10ft alligator after tripping into a pond outside a Florida bar.

Jordan Rivera barely remembers the attack when he ‘ended up in the water’ behind Banditos bar in Port Charlotte in the early hours of Sunday after going outside to relieve himself because the restroom line was too long.

Patrons ran to his rescue after hearing him screaming for help during the attack. They pulled him out of the water and put a makeshift tourniquet on his severed right arm.

From his ICU bed in Fort Myers, Rivera took a remarkably sanguine attitude to the unfortunate incident when he said: ‘I didn’t lose my life, I lost an arm, it’s not the end of the world.’

He said: ‘As I was going over there something happened where I either tripped or the ground below me just went down. I ended up in the water. And that’s literally the last thing I remember.’

The next time he opened his eyes, he was in the hospital with an amputated arm.

83 million years of highly evolved ambush predation vs a human is no match.

When you go into, or even too near, the water I’m Florida, you stop being at the top of the food chain.

It’s spring, heading into summer.  The water looks cool and inviting.  But be careful you don’t end up a gator snack.