Awful.

This is a symptomatic issue of a city run by people pretending to have a clue what they're doing when they're actually complete idiots. I'm watching today's City Council meeting for work and we are fucked. This shit isn't going to change. They were seriously saying one of the solutions to youth gun violence is opening the library an extra day per week. The fucking library.

In case the people in charge of our city can't comprehend this, let me make something clear: kids who want to read books will find books to read. Kids who want to get into crime will find ways to do that too. There is almost no overlap for these kids.

Another thing they discussed as a solution to youth gun violence was tackling the issue of slumlords and housing. A completely separate issue that nobody really elaborated on. They just mentioned it and kind of moved along.

The people in charge of this city have no idea what the fuck they're doing. You want to solve the youth gun violence problem? Here's an idea: implement real consequences for violent offenders. Right now they think carjacking is cool, but I wonder how cool they'd think it is if one of their friends got 15 years in prison for it. But we have a weak DA, a useless police force, and an epidemic of absent parents, so why would you be afraid to do anything wrong?

Here's another idea: more truancy officers. How many of these kids are even going to school at all? This kid was shot and killed in the middle of a Tuesday afternoon. Those are school hours. Why wasn't he there? (EDIT: didn't read the article before posting, turns out he was walking to school and shot in the morning. Want to clarify that I wasn't victim blaming either, was just trying to understand how this happened. Was he shot by fellow students or just random criminals starting their day early?)

You have to punish the parents. Oh you're a parent and your kid isn't at school and you don't know where they are? Now you're liable for whatever they do and face consequences if they do something bad. Might make parents step up or make kids stop behaving this way if they see that they're harming people close to them.

But one thing that is definitely not going to change the youth gun violence problem? A fucking library being open one extra day per week. And until our city leaders start discussing actually viable solutions instead of sitting around City Hall jacking off, more kids are gonna get shot.