Two gunmen in a red SUV unloaded over 100 rounds into a crowded South Side street Friday night, wounding at least 12 people — and nobody's been arrested. Once again, ordinary Chicagoans pay the price for a city that disarms the law-abiding while repeat offenders operate with impunity.
The attack happened just after 11 p.m. on the 200 block of West 95th Street in Roseland. A red SUV pulled alongside a large crowd and two occupants opened fire before fleeing, according to the Chicago Tribune. Citizen app reports cited by the Gateway Pundit put the round count north of 100. Victims ranged from 17 to 47; a 17-year-old boy shot in the thigh and a 26-year-old man hit multiple times in the body were listed in critical condition, the Chicago Sun-Times reported. Ten of the wounded transported themselves to area hospitals.
The shooting fell on Juneteenth. Street Pastor Donovan Price condemned the violence: "It should be celebrating and fireworks and not turn into gunshots." A man identified as violence prevention advocate Meadows Orion said, "It does a disservice to the community and what Juneteenth is supposed to stand for."
This wasn't an isolated incident. Police reported at least 21 people shot in Chicago since Friday evening, resulting in at least four deaths, according to the Associated Press. The Sun-Times put the weekend toll even higher: five killed and 19 injured across multiple shootings. The victims include a 29-year-old man gunned down on a sidewalk on South Michigan Avenue and a 50-year-old man shot in the chest on West 75th Street.
No suspects are in custody for the mass shooting. Detectives are investigating.
The Gateway Pundit noted the shooting was "likely gang-related" — a detail the other outlets didn't address either way. That framing matters: when established media refuse to name gang activity, they obscure the reality of who is perpetuating the violence and why progressive prosecution policies that let repeat offenders walk are fueling it.
The Guardian and the AP both mentioned that former President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama welcomed visitors to his presidential center on the South Side earlier that day — an odd juxtaposition given the carnage unfolding miles away that night, but one neither outlet explored.
President Trump has previously warned about Chicago's crime and floated deploying the Insurrection Act. "We'll go back in, and we may, if we, you know, we're allowed to, the most powerful thing we have, we haven't used, the Insurrection Act," he said in January, as reported by the Gateway Pundit. The Supreme Court previously ruled against Trump deploying National Guard troops stationed in Chicago to protect ICE agents.
Chicago's law-abiding residents remain disarmed by the state while suspects who fired over 100 rounds into a crowd vanish into the night. The question isn't whether the city has a crime problem — the bodies answer that. The question is how long the people who live there will tolerate a government that can't protect them and won't let them protect themselves.
