What Happened After San Francisco Officials Announced a ‘Ceasefire’?

Last Thursday, San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie announced a 24-hour “ceasefire” in the city, joined by the local D.A., police chief, sheriff, and representatives from a community violence prevention group called United Playaz. At the time of Lurie’s announcement, the city had 14 reported homicides since January 1, up significantly from the four homicides reported in San Francisco during the same time period in 2025. 

The “ceasefire” was supposed to run from 12:01 a.m. on Friday through 11:59 p.m. that night. I guess city leaders can call it a success, because I haven’t been able to find any reports of a shooting in the city last Friday. If any criminals actually abided by that announcement (which I doubt), they decided to do their shootings a little early or a little later instead. 

On Thursday, just hours after the mayor declared the ceasefire, an individual was shot in the Mission District.

A police officer at the scene said there had been a “big fight” on the street before shots rang out, and that a suspect was thought to have fled on foot heading east down 18th Street. 

… After being shot sometime around 3 p.m., the victim ran inside the nonprofit organization HOMEY — Homies Organizing the Mission to Empower Youth — at 2221 Mission St. The youth staff there administered first aid.

At last report the victim was in the hospital with “life threatening” injuries, and police had made no arrests in the shooting. 

The San Francisco Police Department’s crime dashboard reports five assaults took place on April 10, but the dashboard doesn’t say whether or not firearms were involved in any of those incidents. 

The next reported shooting in the city, or at least the next one that local media covered, took place on Sunday, April 12, when two individuals were arrested for firing shots near the home of OpenAI’s Sam Altman. 

Two people were arrested after gunfire was reported near the Russian Hill home of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman early Sunday.

The shooting comes days after a separate attack where a man allegedly threw a Molotov cocktail at the gate of Altman’s home.

“As part of any investigation, investigators look into all aspects,” the San Francisco Police Department said on if Sunday’s attack was targeted. “We have no further details to provide at this time.”

SFPD said officers responded around 2:56 a.m. Sunday to reports of possible shots fired. Investigators later determined a vehicle with two occupants drove past a residence around the time of the shooting.

Officers detained Amanda Tom, 25, of San Francisco, and Muhamad Tarik Hussein, 23, without incident a few blocks away. A search warrant at a residence led to the seizure of three firearms, police said.

As far as I can tell, neither the mayor nor anyone else who was at last Thursday’s “ceasefire” proclamation have said anything else about it in the days since. If Lurie and others believe it was a success, they’re apparently keeping that opinion to themselves. 

The entire concept of a city-imposed “ceasefire” is asinine to begin with. If that was all it took to stop shootings, then why didn’t Lurie proclaim a year-long ceasefire? You could argue that one is already in place, given the laws against reckless discharge, aggravated assault, and murder. The problem is that violent criminals, by definition, don’t follow those laws. 

San Francisco officials like Lurie should be making it easier for residents to lawfully protect themselves with firearms instead of wasting time and energy on meaningless proclamations that do nothing to improve public safety. There are no gun stores in San Francisco, and no publicly accessible gun ranges either. That isn’t preventing criminals from illegally accessing and using guns, but it has a significant impact on San Franciscans’ ability to exercise their Second Amendment rights… including their right to armed self-defense. 

Editor’s Note: The radical left will stop at nothing to enact their radical gun control agenda and strip us of our Second Amendment rights.

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