ROCKING AND ROLLING IN SACATOMATO ON SATURDAY NIGHT

by Bob Walsh

As the bars in the capitol district empties out at about 0200 on Sunday morning 18 people were shot in Sacramento.  Six of them were fatalities.  Four more are in very critical condition.  Both the Alcalde of Pueblo of Sacramento, Darrell Steinberg, and the God-Emperor of California, Gavin Newsom, would have you believe that two or more "assault weapons" walked down the street by themselves, indiscriminately spraying bullets around the streets.  It might be hard to believe for some, but that isn't really what happened.

There is a significant night life scene in Sac around the capitol.  A lot of bar.  More than a few clubs.  A couple of very decent hotels.  As the bars were dumping out a fight broke out in front of one of the bars.  Almost immediately thereafter, or possibly even while the fight was going on, two or more shooters started blasting into the crowd, hitting eighteen people.  A car which may have had one or more of the shooters in it then left at a high rate of speed.  The cops were there almost immediately and picked up one gun at the scene which may, or may not, have been used in the shooting.  

There is a ton of cell phone footage and even some official police video from a police camera near the scene.  It would seem that 76 shots were fired in slightly less than one minute.  The cops were still at the scene almost 24 hours later.  15 hours later the bodies were still laying in the street.  20 hours later the name of only one victim had been released.  If the cops have any suspects they haven't said.  Nobody is in custody.

The Sacramento BEE editorial board has already put out an editorial screaming about the evils of rapid fire assault weapons with high capacity magazines.  The brand new Chief of Police decried the violence, but does not seem to be an anti-gun psychopath, or if she is she is low profile about it.  There was a lot of talk about an earlier "mass shooting" about two weeks ago, which was actually a grotty case of domestic violence.

With luck SCOTUS will kick some of these nutters in the nuts on this issue.  I am hopeful, but not holding my breath.