I think people are becoming desensitized to the crime, the shootings, the dysfunction, the disintegration of the traditional family in the city of Milwaukee.
There have been so many freaking wake up calls that they've become ambient noise.
There are shootings nearly every single day. It's the rare day when no one is hit by a bullet, accidentally or intentionally.
Even the shootings of children, sometimes tragically resulting in death, doesn't seem to shock anymore.
It's business as usual.
When such incidents lose their shock factor, it's an indication of just how serious the crisis in Milwaukee has become.
Of course, as usual there were intentional shootings yesterday, but here's the story of an accidental shooting:
MILWAUKEE -- A 9-year-old boy was shot in the chest Tuesday afternoon on Milwaukee's northwest side, the victim's family said.
The shooting happened in an apartment near 89th Street and Mill Road at about 1:30 p.m.
Milwaukee police said Jalen Nelson was playing with a gun inside his home with his 13-year-old brother, who accidentally shot him.
Family members told 12 News the boys' 16-year-old sister was home with them. They said her boyfriend brought the gun over, left it in her care and the boys got a hold of it.
It's really sick that this 16-year-old didn't properly "care" for her boyfriend's gun.
What's even more troubling is that Milwaukee has so many "parents" that are 16 years old and younger.
Family members said their mother had no idea there was a gun in the house.
They never do.
Police said they are investigating the shooting as an accident but they took Jalen's brother and sister into custody.
Nelson is in good condition, according to the victim's family.
Why take the siblings into custody?
That seems odd in the case of an accident. Do the police have reason to believe the siblings are involved in some other illegal matters?
Thankfully, Nelson survived the shooting.
Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett responded to the news Tuesday night, calling it an unbelievable situation.
"We have to get rid of the illegal guns, and we have to have parents who are there controlling their children," Barrett said. "We're lucky this time the child didn't get killed."
Wow. I didn't see that coming.
Barrett is horrified over the illegal guns.
He gets points for calling out the parents' failure to monitor their children, with no adults being home at the time of this shooting, but those are negated by his utterly lame handwringing over the illegal guns.
Barrett sounds so stupid when he gets outraged about ILLEGAL guns.
When he says they're ILLEGAL, that means current laws are being broken. It's not a matter of there being no gun control laws at this time.
Children's Hospital of Wisconsin told 12 News there has been an increase in the number of shooting victims who are children.
Shootings of children have increased, but the homicide rate is a little bit lower now than last year at this point.
Barrett loves to cite that homicide rate. Homicides are down. Yes, that's a good thing. Of course, it is; but the number of homicides isn't a good measure of the state of the city in terms of violent crime.
Milwaukee is in dire need of a stronger, better mayor than Barrett.
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