Shreveport continues to reel from the devastating consequences of gun violence and the on-going black on black crime that has enveloped this city. There are communities in major population centers around the country that have become no go zones. This continued gun violence is unacceptable and must be confronted once and for all.
The recent drive-by shooting that claimed the life of a one-year-old infant boy, Karter Martin, has shattered the illusion of safety for residents that sadly, didn’t take much to shatter anyway. Little Karter deserved to live, but he has now become another sad statistic in the ongoing scourge of black-on-black killing that has become a national epidemic.
We see it every day on our television screens, with one story after another story about how some young black man has committed a crime against another young black man, which often is with a gun, and is often deadly. That is just a fact. It’s where we are today. The first three stories are usually about a young black man committing against another young black. If it bleeds, it leads, and unfortunately, it usually bleeds.